Swimming

Another strong Dartmouth swimming team wound up its dual-meet season in early March with a 44-40 win over Cornell for a record of eight wins, one tie and two defeats and a fourth place ranking in the Ivy League.

Since last month Dartmouth has lost to Harvard 47-37 and Yale 60-24, and has triumphed over Syracuse 53-31 and Cornell 44-40. In the Cornell meet the Indians captured seven out of ten first places but had to go all out, to edge the Big Red. The Indians' Noel Sankey pulled a major upset when he took first place in the dive. Captain Duke Hust, swimming in his final dual meet, won the 440-yard freestyle event and took second in the 220-yard swim. Junior backstroke ace Neil Sween flashed to a surprise win in that event for Dartmouth (his fourth victory of the sea- son), and sophomore freestyle ace Ernie Drosdick won both the 100-yard race and the 200-yard individual medley, making sixteen wins in twenty starts for him this season.

Against Yale, perennially one of the best in the nation, Dartmouth could do little. Noel Sankey's win in the diving and Neil Sween's victory in the backstroke were the only events the Indians took, although Ernie Drosdick turned in a blistering performance in the 200-yard individual medley to set an unofficial College record with a time of 2:14.6, which was good only for second place.