Hockey

The up-and-down hockey team won four straight contests following last month's report, but then dropped two of its most recent games. Overall, the Big Green sextet now has seven wins against eight defeats and a league record of two wins and four defeats. Dartmouth swept past Northeastern 6-3 and Yale 5-3 in late January and then won both Winter Carnival con tests, defeating Boston College 4-3 and Yale again 3-1. Then the Big Green's luck ran out and it lost to Brown 4-1 and league-leading Harvard 10-0.

Coach Eddie Jeremiah is frank to admit that his team this year is composed of a "group of guys who have a lot of hustle and fight but not too much ability." Jerry now feels that he has his squad pretty well shaped up and that, barring accident or illness, he'll stay with his lines and defenses as set. Most of the scoring to date has been concentrated in the first line centered by Captain Dana "Red" Hennigar with Chet Gale and Ab Oakes on the wings. Gale is top scorer with thirteen goals and 10 assists for 23 points followed by Hennigar with four goals and twelve assists for 16 points and Oakes, who has ten goals and five assists for 15 points. The second line of Charlie Sprott and Bob Creasy, wings, and Bob Marchant, center, has teamed up to account for eleven goals and sixteen assists. Creasy replaced Dave Tonneson on this line when Tonneson suffered a fractured vertebra in the neck at the Boston University game in January. Spud Mansur, Ron MacKenzie and John Strong are skating third line for the Indians and, according to Jeremiah, are the best passing trio on the ice. Dan Goggin's improved play on defense and the brilliant work of veteran Gordie Russell at goal have been key factors in the Dartmouth victories. George Snelson and Charlie Sellman, the other Big Green defensemen, have also been playing better in the most recent games.

A generally high morale and the fact that there is at least one player on each line who can fire up the club have been other reasons for the upsets Dartmouth has been pulling. The smashing 4-1 and 10-0 defeats by Brown and Harvard may have taken some of the edge off the team, but the Indians are still a club to be reckoned with and Eddie Jeremiah can justly be proud of his accomplishments with a team of "just average players."

Meanwhile, Dartmouth's hopes for the future rest squarely on a better-than-average freshman team which has lost only to Harvard (2-1) in six games. Dartmouth's first line of Tim Thalheimer, Dick Shanaman and Dave Chapin are all good skaters, while John Lannigan, Clay Freeman and Dave Dingman are promising second-line rookies. Frosh captain Don Thomas is outstanding on defense, while the frosh goalie, Leon Goodrich, looks like a capable replacement for Gordie Russell next winter.