With Big Green Teams

TOPPING the athletic news this month is the superlative performance turned in by Dartmouth's 1956 varsity basketball squad which, starting on February 4, swept to ten straight victories, nine of these against Ivy League foes, to capture the Ivy Championship and a berth in the NCAA Tournament.

In tourney play, the Indians pulled an upset on Tuesday, March 20, by edging West Virginia 71-69 in an overtime game at Madison Square Garden in New York. However, on the following Friday, the Big Green was knocked off by Canisius 66-58. In a consolation game the next night Dartmouth did everything it couldn't do against Canisius and won handily over the University of Connecticut 85-64.

Having a championship team in a major sport for the first time in over ten years has largely overshadowed some fine records by other winter teams, and has also made the Dartmouth students forget momentarily the steady snowfalls which blanketed the Hanover Plain through mid-March.

However, with winter sports activity all but completed, it takes only a glimpse of baseball coach Bob Shawkey staring dourly from the Hanover Inn porch at the snow swirling across campus to remind one that the spring teams are already practicing - in the confines of Alumni Gymnasium - and that by the time these words are read, Dartmouth's spring teams will be in the Southland for their vacation schedules.

Ron Judson '57, Dartmouth's star forward from Brooklyn, N. Y., sinking a hook shot in the Brown game in Hanover, won by the Indians in their drive to the Ivy League title. Judson set a College scoring record with 37 points in the game, won 93-48.