With BiG Green Teams

THE close of another academic year at Dartmouth offers an opportunity to summarize sport by sport the results of Big Green teams during the past seasons, and this is done in a tabulation elsewhere on these pages. We also report briefly on those final days on the spring sports front and then, because the ALUMNI MAGAZINE will not resume publication until October, we offer some analysis of Dartmouth's 1955 football team.

It is apparent now that the year just ended has marked a turning point in Dartmouth athletics, at least in recent years. It was just a year ago that "Red" Rolfe took over as Director of Athletics, and there is little doubt that this first year will prove to have been his toughest. Barely had the fall gotten underway when he and the Athletic Council were confronted with a decision on the football coaching staff. The decision was followed by a long and arduous search for a new staff while problems of enrollment, a new freshman basketball

coach, speaking engagements, meetings and an unusually heavy round of routine duties served to further complicate life. Although he lost weight and at times appeared drawn and peaked, Red bore up remarkably well under the strain and is starting his second year at the helm with renewed vigor.

Although it is too early for the results to show in team performances, the general reaction among students, faculty and alumni close to the athletic scene is that a new era in Dartmouth sports is gradually starting to unfold and that while Dartmouth teams may never blossom into national champions, they nonetheless will provide more potent opposition for their traditional Ivy League opponents and in time regain some of the prestige they enjoyed not too many years ago.

June produced a minor flurry of personnel changes at the Athletic Council. Sykes Hardy '27 was chosen to succeed Sumner Kilmarx '22 as president of the DCAC, with other new members to be announced in the fall. Roy Goodfellow, assistant trainer since 1947, resigned to accept a position at Tufts College, while Theodore "Ted" Emery was appointed Director of Sports Information, as reported elsewhere on these pages. Alfred J. McGuire was reappointed freshman basketball coach, a move meeting with unanimous approval.