With the Big Green Teams

HANOVER always seems at its best in early fall. The hazy, lazy Indian summer days blend with the cool, crisply sharp autumn days and even an occasional fall rain serves only to freshen the unique elixir which comes with the opening of each college year. The past month (mid-September to mid-October) has been perfect in these respects, but not so perfect has been the record turned in by Dartmouth teams during these vigorous days.

Dartmouth's varsity football team has the best record with wins over New Hampshire and Brown and a loss to Penn. The varsity soccer squad has dropped its first two matches, the first time in recent years this has occurred, while the varsity crosscountry team has lost one dual meet and placed last in a triangular meet. Even the freshman squads seem to have been contaminated, with the freshman football team being edged by Holy Cross in its opener while the '60 cross-country team dropped its first meet of the season.

This is not, let us state quickly, symptomatic of things to come during the balance of the fall. All three varsity squads - football, soccer and cross country - are relying to a greater degree than usual on sophomores and can be expected to give more competent performances as the season develops. The freshman squads have been working together only three weeks, and here again time seems to be the major factor in development.

It is far too early to evaluate the impact of the Class of 1960 on the athletic scene. These freshman members, however, have turned out for all squads in larger numbers than have been seen in some time, and the talent seems to be distributed in all sports, including crew, wrestling, rugby and even intramural athletics.