Swimming

The Dartmouth varsity swimming team under Coach Karl Michael wound up another successful dual meet season in New York on March 12 by defeating Columbia 48-36. The victory gave Dartmouth a record of seven wins against three defeats with the Eastern Intercollegiates at New Haven and the NCAA Championships in Ohio remaining. The team finished fourth in the nine-team Eastern League.

One of the big reasons for the success of Dartmouth swimming teams during the past two seasons has, of course, been the fine performances of Dartmouth All-American freestyle ace, John Glover from Larchmont, N. Y. Captain Glover's accomplishments are summarized elsewhere on these pages in a final tribute to this outstanding senior.

One week following the Harvard loss, the Green came back to trounce Cornell 51-33 in Spaulding Pool, and set a number of records in the process. In the opening relay, the Green trio of Neil Sween, Jack Hodgson, and John Glover came from behind to win with a 2:57.6 clocking and set a new college record by 0.8 seconds. Jack Hodgson, in winning the breaststroke, set a new pool and college mark for the 200-yard conventional stroke. The big winner in the meet, however, was '56 captain-elect Duke Hust who won the 100, 220, and 440 yard freestyle. Glover came back to set a new pool record for the 100 in the first leg of the final relay with a 50.1 time.

The following Saturday, Yale romped over the Green as expected, 60-24, for the Elis' 125th straight win over a ten-year period. The Blue set two marks in the process. Glover maintained his record of setting a record in every pool with a 49.8 winning time in the 100-yard freestyle for a new Dartmouth mark. Hust in the 440, Jim Venman in the dive, and Sween in the backstroke were Dartmouth's other winners.

The team had a field day against Penn winning easily 54-30 and smashing a few more marks in the last home meet. Glover with 49.5 for the 100 at the head of the 400-yard relay set a new pool and college mark, and Hust, Creight Hart and Dick Karslake kept up the pace as the Green broke both marks for the relay with a 3:29.3 clocking, one of the best in the country this year. Glover's 100 is the best anywhere this season, and only 0.3 slower than the world record. Hodgson broke both breaststroke marks with a 2:35.7 in his last Hanover meet. Sween's 1:01.8 leg in the medley relay and Glover's 2:09.5 win in the 220 were other outstanding performances.

At Columbia, in the final dual meet of the year, Glover set a new Columbia pool mark for the 50-yard freestyle in 22.8, and probably would have set a new 100 mark for that event had he been timed on the first leg of the final relay. He swam the distance in 50.5 unofficially. Noel Sankey in the dive, Phil Pendleton in the backstroke, Chuck Schroeder in the 220 and Hart in the 440 were Dartmouth's other winners as the team coasted to an easy win.