With Big Green Teams

DARTMOUTH varsity and freshman winter teams reach the mid-point in their schedules this week (Jan. 17) and take a two-week layoff for semester examinations before resuming action on the Winter Carnival weekend. Other than the surprising showing of the Big Green basketball team which won the New England College Basketball Tournament at Storrs, Conn., immediately after Christmas, Dartmouth teams have performed about as expected.

Mid-season tabulations put the varsity basketball team at the head of the list with a record of nine wins and two defeats. The two defeats, unfortunately, were both in Ivy League games so the Indians now have a 2-2 Ivy record and are tied with Columbia for fourth place. The varsity swimming team has won two dual meets and lost one, while the hockey team has won three and dropped six contests, with two of these losses to Ivy League foes. The track team dropped its only dual meet of the season so far to top-ranked Cornell, while the squash team has won only a single match and lost four. Varsity totals thus show 15 wins against 14 defeats.

On the freshman level, Dartmouth teams got away to a later but more impressive start than their varsity brethren, with the '58 basketball, hockey and swimming teams all undefeated in three contests each, while the squash team has dropped one match. The freshman total is nine wins against one defeat, and combined totals for varsity and freshman teams show 24 wins and 15 defeats.

Chief interest during the past month has, of course, centered on the football coaching situation. At just about the time this issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE is sent out the new Dartmouth football coach is expected to be announced. On January 17 the 18-member screening committee held its final meeting in New York. The committee was to narrow the candidates down from the previously selected ten or so to three or four and was to send these names to the Dartmouth College Athletic Council for its decision. During the first week in January, Director of Athletics Red Rolfe and some members of the screening com- mittee interviewed about 30 applicants at the American Football Coaches Association annual meeting in New York.

As one observer cryptically phrased it. "No matter who they come up with, they'll be wrong." But Red Rolfe and the DCAC are determined to get the type of coach who will be as "right" as possible for Dartmouth College.

All this, however, will soon be history, so let's move in for a quick look at how the Dartmouth teams have fared thus far in the winter season.