With Big Green Teams

DESPITE the heavy rains that drummed down on Hanover plain during the past month, Dartmouth teams have had a busy time since the last report. Team records to date reveal that, except for an unusually fine golf team, Dartmouth spring sports are at a low ebb.

Only two weeks remain until the end of the spring schedules and little improvement is foreseen in these days.

Overall, the varsity baseball team has won three and lost fifteen. Their Eastern League record shows one victory in six games for a ninth-place berth, while since the last report in these pages, the Indians have won only one contest and lost eight. The lacrosse team has fared somewhat better with a cumulative record of six wins against nine defeats, but they have won four of their last seven encounters and shown signs of doing better toward the season's end. The Big Green golfers, far and away the best of the spring teams, have defeated fourteen opponents, while losing to three. Since last report, the golf team has won seven straight and finished in a tie for second place at both the Eastern and New England Intercollegiate Golf Championships. The tennis team has three wins against nine losses and has won two and lost four of these since the last report. The track team has won a single dual meet, placed second in a triangular meet, captured a few individual places at the New England Relays and wound up in ninth place ahead of tenth place Brown at the outdoor Heptagonal Meet.

Totals to date for all varsity teams show 27 wins against 36 defeats, an average slightly below those turned in by either the fall or winter teams.

News on the general athletic scene has been scarce this past month. Biggest item was the official and long-awaited announcement of a formal Ivy Group football schedule. Announced by the University of Pennsylvania, the round-robin schedule matching all eight Ivy teams against each another begins in 1956. The schedule shows Dartmouth playing the University of New Hampshire, Holy Cross and Columbia at home, while meeting Penn, Brown, Harvard, Yale, Cornell and Princeton away.

Acceptances have gone out for the Class of 1958 and Dartmouth athletic officials are waiting expectantly for the notifications to come back. A lot of good athletes were accepted, but only time will tell whether they show up on the campus next fall.

Now, let's review the action (or should we say inaction) of the past month.