With Big Green Teams

THE major news on the Dartmouth athletic front during the past month has, of course, been the appointment of Bob Blackman, formerly of Denver University, as head coach of football. The details of the appointment of Blackman and the new assistants who will work with him are reported elsewhere in this issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

For two weeks of the past month Dartmouth teams had a layoff during the final exam period. The vacation apparently did the teams some good, for when they resumed action on the Winter Carnival weekend, all teams came through with victories to give the Big Green one of the most successful Carnival records for some years. The ski team captured the Winter Carnival meet and the Carnival Cup for the fourth straight year with Dartmouth's Egil Stigum annexing Skimeister honors. The hockey team downed Boston College and Yale during the weekend, while the basketball team defeated Princeton, the swimming team triumphed over Navy, and the recently organized wrestling team tied the Coast Guard Academy.

The Big Green varsity and freshman winter teams are all performing creditably, although it must be admitted that most of them this winter seem to blow hot and cold. The basketball team, for example, played a poor game in losing to Williams, but then got back up to stop Princeton and went on to upset a highly rated Connecticut team. They next lost a league game to Columbia, but upset Penn at Philadelphia. The hockey team swept through four straight games defeating Northeastern, Boston College and Yale twice before losing two in a row to Brown and Harvard.

With just about a month of competition remaining, the Big Green teams are still ahead in the won-lost column. The varsity basketball team has won twelve and lost five, while the hockey team has won seven and lost eight. The Dartmouth swimmers have won four dual meets and lost two, while the track team has dropped both of its dual meets to date and the squash team has two wins in eight encounters. Varsity totals: 25 wins, 25 losses.

The Dartmouth freshman teams are doing better than their older cohorts with the '58 basketball squad undefeated in five games, the frosh hockey team with a 5-1 record, and the frosh swimming team undefeated in five meets, while the track team has won one meet and lost one and the squash team has 1-2 record. Freshman totals show 17 wins against only 4 losses, and combined totals for all Dartmouth winter teams reveal 42 wins and 29 defeats to date.

Coach Bob Blackman being carried off thefield by Denver players last Thanksgiving Daywhen they clinched the Skyline Conferencechampionship.