With Big Green Teams

DESPITE a ten-day layoff for semester examinations, the past month has been an extremely busy one, with Big Green teams moving into the heart of their winter schedules and for the most part doing very well. Since the beginning of the second semester in early February the Dartmouth teams have shown real improvement and can be expected to continue their fine performances during the four weeks that remain before the winter sports program ends and the spring teams start workouts.

Highlighting the past month has been the remarkable comeback of the Dartmouth varsity basketball team. Starting on Carnival weekend (Feb. 4), the Indians defeated Yale and then went on to defeat Columbia, Holy Cross, Cornell and Columbia again for five victories in a row. The Indians now have a record of eleven wins and nine defeats. In the Ivy League race Dartmouth at the moment is tied for second place with Princeton, each with five wins and three defeats. Columbia leads the league with a 6-3 record, but Dartmouth, with six Ivy games remaining on its schedule, has a good chance to take over the top spot.

A rather weak Dartmouth hockey team has shown considerable fight this past month to win three games while losing seven, for an overall record of four wins against fourteen losses. The swimming team, undefeated until the weekend of Feb. 17, finally succumbed to Harvard, 47-37, to make its record six wins, one tie and one defeat. The track team, with its 83 1/3 to 32 2/3 win over Brown included, now has a quadrangular meet victory, two dual meet wins and one defeat. The squash team has two wins against seven defeats. The ski team has swept three Carnival meets, including the most recent one at Middlebury, which gave it the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association champion