With Big Green Teams

FROM mid-October to mid-November is the busiest period of the fall on the Dartmouth athletic front, with all fall teams playing the peak of their schedules and the winter teams beginning to work out for the season just ahead.

Coach Doggie Julian's Big Green hoopsters will open on December 3 against Middlebury and then play Vermont, Colby and Boston College before their Christmas vacation tour to the West Coast and Mid-West. Dartmouth alumni will have an opportunity to see what should be the strongest Dartmouth basketball team indecent years play Southern California in Los Angeles on December 19, Stanford at the Cow Palace in San Francisco on De- cember 21, and Southern California on the same court the following evening. On December 26 the Indians face California at Berkeley and on their return trip stop at Evanston to meet Northwestern on December 29 and Bradley at Peoria on December 30.

At this writing, all fall teams have completed their schedules except for the varsity football team which meets Princeton in the season's finale at Princeton. The impressive showing of Dartmouth's Diamond Jubilee Year football team in recent games has been the outstanding news this past month. After losing four straight contests, the Indians defeated Harvard, Columbia and Cornell while losing only to Yale. The record thus shows three wins and five defeats. Coach Tom Dent's soccer team, however, after winning four straight this fall, dropped five games while winning only two to wind up with six wins against five defeats; while the cross-country team shows a season record of two wins against three losses and a second place finish in a dual meet. Varsity team totals are 11 wins against 13 defeats. The jayvee football team split even, winning the Harvard encounter but losing to Yale, while the freshman football team went undefeated in four games. The frosh soccer team had a 2-2 record, and the '59 cross-country squad won two dual meets and lost three. Freshman totals show eight wins and three defeats, while combined totals for all Green teams are 20 wins and 19 defeats for an average season.

But with football still very much here, let's look at what Coach Bob Blackman and his staff have wrought: