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Track

February 1955 Cliff Jordan '45
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Track
February 1955 Cliff Jordan '45

Dartmouth's varsity track team under Coach Ellie Noyes opened the winter track season January 15 against top-ranked Cornell at Ithaca, N. Y. The Big Red, Heptagonal cross-country champions, were, as expected, too much for the Indians and wonwon 64½ to 44½. However, Dartmouth did better than was generally expected and Coach Ellie Noyes termed himself "well pleased" with the Big Green's initial performance.

Dartmouth did well in the middle-distance and distance events as well as in some of the field events. Sandy Heath ran strongly in the 600-yard race to finish a close third, while Paul Merriken, despite a cramp, finished second in the mile race behind John Rosenbaum, Cornell's Heptagonal champion, who set a meet record of 4:26. Merriken and Pete Jebsen also did well in the mile and two-mile relay events although Cornell swept both.

Sophomore Willy Einarsson, a native of Iceland, was Dartmouth's top performer. Einarsson took a first place tie in the high jump, finished second in the broad jump and third in the shot put in his first varsity appearance. Dartmouth's pole vaulter Lou Metzger set a meet record, soaring 13 feet to win, while Bill Springer tied for second place with a leap of 121/2 feet. Captain John Harlor took a first in the broad jump with a leap of 22' 7", while veteran George Bixby took a first in the shot put and third in the 35-pound weight throw to round out the Dartmouth scoring.

The Coming Month

BASKETBALL - Feb. 5, Princeton; 8, Connecticut; 11, Columbia at New York; 12, Penn at Philadelphia; 15, Holy Cross; 17, Yale at New Haven; 19, Brown; 22, Columbia; 25, Harvard at Cambridge; 26, Brown at Providence; Mar. 1, Holy Cross at Worcester; 5, Cornell.

HOCKEY - Feb. 3, Boston College; 5, Yale; 9, Brown at Providence; 12, Harvard at Cambridge; 16, Boston College at Boston; 18, Middlebury at Middlebury; 19, Army; 23, Boston University; 26, Brown; Mar. 5, Princeton at Princeton; 12, Alumni.

SWIMMING - Feb. 4, Navy; 12, Harvard at Cambridge; 19, Cornell; 26, Yale at New Haven; Mar. 5, Penn; 12, Columbia at New York; 17, 18, 19, EISL at New Haven.

TRACK — Feb. 12, Harvard; 19, Brown; 26, IC4A at New York; Mar. 5, Heptagonals at Ithaca; 12, Yale; 19, Boston University.

SQUASH Feb. 12, Amherst; Mar. 4, 5, 6, Intercollegiates at Annapolis.

ALPINE ACE: Chiharu I gay a, sophomorewho skied on the last Japanese Olympic team,holds the U.S. national slalom and combinedtitles, and bolsters Dartmouth's ski hopes.