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The Dartmouth Rugby team with Don Saunders '57 as president and Doug Stevenson '56 as coach and captain has continued its winning ways. The club won all five of its matches this fall, which, coupled with an 8-0 record last fall and a spring record of five wins, one defeat and two ties, certainly makes it the winningest team at Dartmouth. This fall the ruggers defeated Newport 0.C.5., Harvard, the New York Rugby Club, M.I.T. and Montreal. A more detailed resume of the rugby record will appear in next month's issue.
In their only races this fall the Dartmouth crews gave advance warning of their strength by defeating M.I.T. crews in three of four races. Rowing in below-freezing weather against strong winds, the varsity heavyweights won their race by a boat length. The jayvee and freshman heavyweight crews also triumphed over their M.I.T. counterparts. In the lightweight division, the M.I.T. crew, rated as the best lightweight crew in the East, won handily over the Green. This wraps up crew activity until next February when the rowing club begins preparation for its important spring races.
Dartmouth's informal wrestling club got a big boost this fall when the DCAC agreed to permit the team to move into Alumni Gymnasium for practice sessions and meets and authorized the appointment of Frank Kapral, freshman football line coach, as wrestling coach during the winter months. Kapral has had extensive college wrestling experience and will be a major asset to the club and the team.
On the freshman level, Dartmouth's fall teams did generally better than the varsity. The freshman football team, after an opening 13-6 loss to Holy Cross, defeated Harvard 6-0, Yale 14-0 and New Hampshire 58-6. The team has considerable talent, including some excellent quarterbacks, a few promising halfbacks plus some likely linemen - all of which should help Dartmouth's 1957 squad.
The varsity soccer team should also get assistance from the freshman team which defeated Brewster, Exeter and New Hampton while losing close games to Harvard and Williams.
The 1960 cross-country squad found rough going with the exception of wins over Mount Hermon and New Hampton. Captain Art Pritchard is a promising runner who set a course record in piloting his teammates to a win at the Mount Hermon School in the season's finale.
