Rugby

The Dartmouth Rugby Club is a private organization, which only last year was recognized by the College as an informal sport. Its appeal to the students as a spectator sport is fast growing, as it is throughout the East. Entirely self-financing, the team has no college coach or manager, and each year the captain-elect assumes these duties.

During the past year the team's record has been impressive. Winning their last 17 out of 20 games, the ruggers are the most victorious of all Dartmouth fall teams. This fall, to date, they have won four games with no losses and one tie, amassing a total of 75 points to their opponents' 3. The scoreboard is as follows: Dartmouth 16, Montreal Westmount o; Dartmouth 8, Harvard o; Dartmouth 31, Montreal Barbarians o; Dartmouth o, N. Y. Rugby Club o; Dartmouth 20, M.I.T. 3. There is one remaining game with Princeton.

The team, one of veterans, is comprised mostly of seniors. Led by Captain Doug Stevenson, player-coach, the line-up includes: in the scrum, Mac Barker and Captain Stevenson at posts, Tom Burris at hooker, Ed Ross and John Koehring in the second row, Mark Cowdery at lock, and Rick Webb and Peter Trinkle at wing forwards. In the backfield are Tom Hamilton at standoff, Tom Wallace and Al Maca at 345, Ted Spetnagel and Link Spaulding at wings, Bruce Gemberling at fullback, and Don Adley at scrumhalf.

Don Saunders has played various positions both in the scrum and in the backfield. Also Dave Dingman, Dick McClintock, and Dick Leisching have been valuable assets. Leisching and Trinkle are both English boys, and their first-hand experience and knowledge of the game have contributed to the successful season.

Rugby is a year-round sport, and as soon as the season ends, it seems to begin again. With the possibility of the team's traveling to England during the Christmas holidays to compete against the top British teams, and with spring practice beginning February 15, it looks as if the team will be in excellent condition to compete in the traditional championship matches held each year in Burmuda.

Doug Stevenson at the Alpha Delt House is presently directing the Rugby Club's fund-raising efforts among the alumni as well as the undergraduates.

Winter Schedules

BASKETBALL - Dec. 3, Middlebury; 7, Vermont at Burlington; 10, Colby; 14, Boston College; 19, Southern California at Los Angeles; 21, Stanford at San Francisco; 22, Southern California at San Francisco; 26, California at Berkeley; 29, Northwestern at Evanston; 30, Bradley at Peoria; Jan. 6, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; 7, Princeton at Princeton; 10, Harvard; 14, Princeton; 17, Holy Cross at Worcester; Feb. 4, Yale; 9, Columbia at New York; 11, Holy Cross; 17, Cornell; 18, Columbia; 22, Brown; 25, Pennsylvania; 29, Yale at New Haven; March 2, Harvard at Cambridge; 3, Brown at Providence; 10, Cornell at Ithaca.

HOCKEY — Dec. 3, M.I.T. at Cambridge; 10, Northeastern; 16, Providence; Jan. 5, Middlebury; 7, Harvard at Cambridge; 11, Brown at Providence; 12, Boston U. at Boston; 14, Princeton; 17, Boston College at Boston; 18, Northeastern at Boston; 21, Yale; Feb. 2, Boston College; 4, Harvard; 8, Clarkson; 11, Yale at New Haven; 15, Norwich; 17, Middlebury at Middlebury; 18, Army at West Point; 20, Williams at Williamstown; 23, Boston U.; 25, Brown; 28, St. Lawrence; March 3, Princeton at Princeton; 10, Alumni.

TRACK — Jan. 14, Cornell at Ithaca; 21, Boston U.; Feb. 11, Harvard; 18, Brown; 25, Intercollegiates at New York; March 3, Heptagonals at Ithaca; 10, Yale at New Haven; 17, Columbia.

SWIMMING - Dec. 15, Springfield at Springfield; Jan. 7, Navy; 14, Amherst; 21, Columbia; Feb. 4, Army; 10, Princeton at Princeton; 11, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; 18, Harvard; 25, Yale; March 2, Syracuse at Syracuse; 3, Cornell at Ithaca; 15-17, Eastern Intercollegiates at Ithaca.

SQUASH - Dec. 9, Navy at Boston; 10, M.I.T. at Cambridge; Jan. 7, Harvard; 13, Amherst at Amherst; 14, Wesleyan at Middletown; 21, Army; Feb. 11, Yale; 14, Williams; 17, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; 18, Princeton at Princeton.