Green Jottings
Dartmouth swimming captain and All American freestyle ace John Glover became the National AAU 100-yard freestyle champion by defeating Yale's Kerry Donovan and Rex Aubrey in the AAU Meet at New Haven during the spring vacation. Glover's trial time of 49.5 was the fastest 100 recorded at the Yale Pool (just .3 seconds off the world's record), and his 49.8 was a new record for the AAU final.
The freshman relay team set a new record in the same meet with a 3:36 time in the 400-yard relay, while Ernie Drosdick '58 posted a record time of 2:12 for the 220-yard event and John Graff '58 swam to a new record in the quarter-mile with a 5:00 posting.
The week before Glover had lost to Yale's Donovan in the 50-yard event and Yale's Aubrey in the 100 at the NCAA swimming championships in Ohio. Oddly enough Glover's 22.7 time in the 50-yard race was better than the 22.8 time set by Yale's Donovan, but place judges have the say over the timers.
Dartmouth's new football coach Bob Blackman, his assistant coaches and Director of Athletics Red Rolfe were scheduled to have a busy three days in New York the
end of April. On Monday, April 25, Blackman was a luncheon guest of Sports Illustrated magazine and on Tuesday the luncheon guest at New York's Touchdown Club. The following day Blackman, his assistants and Rolfe met with more than 500 New York Dartmouth alumni for luncheon at the Hotel Statler. In between the luncheons were press conferences, meetings with enrollment groups and prospective students, and private meetings. Anyone for fishing?
Speaking of football, today (Sunday, April 17) Coach Blackman and his staff met with the Dartmouth football team for the one organizational meeting permitted under the Ivy League ruling. Blackman explained his V-system, talked about plans for the September training camp and answered questions. Too bad he can't adopt the suggestion of a local sports writer: "Why not hold the meeting, but don't adjourn it. Just recess it until the following day and keep going until someone squawks."
And the new look is really here. Next fall Dartmouth will have a new coach, a new system and new uniforms. Wait until you get a look at those helmets, jerseys and pants. Now if we could have a new team, please.
The Dartmouth Corinthian Yacht Club opened its season by taking fifth place in the New England States Regatta and thus qualifying for the New England Individual Sailing Championships at Brown. John Sherwood '58 will represent Dartmouth in the New England finals. Next on the schedule is a quadrangular meet with Amherst, Middlebury and Vermont at home. Meets with Middlebury, Brown and M.I.T. follow during the season.
May Schedules
BASEBALL - May 4, Holy Cross; 5, Williams; 7, Cornell at Ithaca; 10, New Hampshire; 11, Harvard at Cambridge; 14, Army; 17, Colby; 18, Yale; 21, Amherst at Amherst; 26, Equitable Life Insurance; 28, Vermont at Burlington.
LACROSSE - May 7, Yale; 14, Harvard; 18, M.I.T. at Cambridge; 21, Williams.
TRACK - May 4, Boston University; 14, Heptagonals at Princeton; 19, Brown; 27, 28, ICAAAA at New York.
TENNIS - May 11, Harvard at Cambridge; 13, Princeton; 14, Pennsylvania; 17, Amherst at Amherst; 20, Williams; 21, Army; 28, Middlebury at Middlebury.
GOLF - May 5, Williams at Williamstown; 6, Harvard at Cambridge; 7, Boston University; 10, Lowell Textile at Lowell; 11, Brown; 14-16, E.I.G.A. at New Haven; 18, Massachusetts; 19, Vermont; 20, Siena at Loudonville, N. Y.
