With Big Green Teams

THE past month on the Dartmouth athletic scene has wrought several changes and produced some surprises. Dartmouth's highly regarded basketball team, after winning five straight games including the first contest on their West Coast junket, proceeded to lose the remaining five road-trip contests and on their return to Ivy League play dropped three games and won a single Ivy game. The varsity hockey team after its opening win of the season has dropped six straight contests, while the squash team has a record of two wins against five defeats. Two varsity teams, however, remain undefeated - the swimming team boasting three straight triumphs and the track team coming up with a remarkable first-place showing in a quadrangular meet at Cornell. Varsity totals through mid-January show thirteen wins against twenty defeats.

On the freshman level, the 1959 teams are just swinging into action. The basketball team has won two against no defeats, the hockey team has a 2-1 record, the swimmers are undefeated in two meets, the squash team has one loss, and the track team is yet to get into action.

Lack of snow has cancelled most of the early ski meets in the East, although Dartmouth skiers have seen action on an individual basis. The informal wrestling team opened its schedule with a loss to Amherst.

Despite some of these early setbacks the winter teams are just starting to move into the heart of their schedules and a feeling of optimism continues to prevail on the Dartmouth campus. But now for some of the action and highlights of the past month.