Hockey

Although there is little cause for jubilation, the Dartmouth hockey team has improved considerably in the past month and during this period has won three games out of nine as it defeated Northeastern 5-4 in an overtime fray, Norwich 5-2, and, in its most recent outing, Middlebury 6-3. The Big Green also came near pulling a major upset in a pre-Carnival game with Boston College, but was finally nosed out by the Eagles 4-3. Overall the Indians now have four wins against thirteen defeats, but are in the Ivy League cellar with five defeats and no wins.

Certainly the most exciting game was the one played in late January against Northeastern in Boston. Coach Eddie Jeremiah had juggled his starting lineup again for this one, starting Leon Goodrich at goal, with Clayt Freeman and Charlie Sellman on defense. The Indians led 4-3 with 42 seconds remaining in the game, but a slashing penalty put wing John Lannigan in the penalty box and the Huskies' top forward, Fred Bordered, went in to score unassisted at the three-second mark and the game went into overtime. Then two minutes and 29 seconds into the sudden death period, veteran center Ron MacKenzie produced the winning goal with assists from Clayt Freeman and Charlie Sprott. MacKenzie had also scored a goal in the second period and an assist to lead the revitalized Indian attack.

One of Coach Jeremiah's experimental moves almost paid off against a strong Boston College team. Jerry has been dropping his center back on defense in recent games and these defensive tactics have helped, as witnessed by the fact that earlier in the season Boston College downed the Indians 11-3 and in this early February game they barely edged out a 4-3 win before a capacity Carnival crowd. B.C. jumped away to an early lead with two goals in the first period, but the Big Green's defensive play began to show and midway in the second stanza John Donahoe passed to Charlie Sprott, who has returned to action after an early-season injury, and Sprott fired to Dave Chapin who tallied from ten feet out. The Eagles collected two more goals near the end of the second period, but with one minute remaining John Strong scored for Dartmouth and the score was 4-2 going into the final period. Three minutes into the third frame sophomore John Donahoe scored for the Big Green, but for the remaining seventeen minutes Boston College held down the Indian attack and bombarded Dartmouth goalie Eric Horter, who played brilliantly in the nets.

At New Haven, Coach Eddie Jeremiah and players watch a Green offensive sally that wasturned aside as Yale won 5-0 for its second shutout of the Indians this season.