Green Jottings

Although it won no games and, in fact, scored no points, a pick-up Dartmouth rugby team tied for the collegiate championship in the annual spring vacation tournament at Bermuda. With only three teams entered - Dartmouth, Harvard and Princeton - the Indians drew a bye in the first round as Princeton defeated Harvard 3-0. The Dartmouth-Princeton game ended in a scoreless deadlock despite an overtime period. So Dartmouth and Princeton are co-champions.

Although the swimming season is officially over, it might be well to glance for a moment at the most recent records set by Dartmouth's Ail-American freestyle ace and captain-elect, John Glover. Certainly one of the best, if not the best swimmer ever at Dartmouth, Glover paced his team to a sixth place berth in the National Championships (NCAA) meet. He took a third in both the 100 and 220-yard freestyle events and also anchored the 400-yard relay team, which finished in fourth place in the NCAA meet held at Syracuse University. Swimming for the New York Athletic Club on the following weekend in the national A.A.U. meet in New Haven, Glover finished third in the 100-yard freestyle and fifth in the 220 and anchored the winning 400-yard medley relay team. Glover's qualifying time of 49.9 for the 100-yard freestyle set at New Haven made him one of eight swimmers to break 50 seconds in this event. Altogether, the versatile Glover set new pool records at Dartmouth, Penn, Navy, Syracuse and Cornell this past winter and turned in consistently better times in the 50 and 100-yard freestyle events than any collegian in the country.

The Dartmouth rifle team wound up its season by edging Norwich University by three points to win the Northern New England Championship with a team score of 1391 points. The score was posted in a shoulder-to-shoulder match at Norwich and was sent in to the National Rifle Association for consideration in their national championships. Unofficial results give Maryland, with a 1439 score, the championship, while the Big Green may not even have finished in the first ten. Chief reason for Dartmouth's inability to hold up in national competition was lack of shoulder-to-shoulder competition.

Dartmouth's varsity heavyweight crew ready for a trial sprint on the Connecticut