Rugby

The Dartmouth rugby team, organized on an informal club basis a few years ago, has been growing stronger each year and attracting more players and increasing enthusiasm in the undergraduate body. This year, during the spring vacation, the club showed its strength by capturing the Bermuda Intercollegiate Cup for the first time. The Indian ruggers defeated an American Naval Base team 8-3, the Bermuda Athletic Association 6-0, a British naval team 16-3, and then walloped Yale 19-0 for the Cup.

The Indian lineup in these games saw Don Saunders at lock, Mack Barker and Wayne Kakela at front row, Tom Burris at hooker, Captain Doug Stevenson and Jim Riffle in the second row, and Rick Webb and Peter Trinkle at the wing forwards. In the backfield were Tony Bruscino at scrum half, Tom Hamilton at stand-off, Bob Adelizzi and Al Maca at center, Ed Nelson and Ed Spetnagel at wings and Bruce Gemberling at fullback. Barry Stompe and Dave Dingman were valuable reserves. (Note—any resemblance between this roster and the Dartmouth football roster is purely coincidental. Spring football practice is still barred in the Ivy League and rugby is definitely not football!)

High scorer for Dartmouth during College Week in Bermuda was Don Saunders with twelve points. Also outstanding for the champs were Webb, Adelizzi, Riffle, Burris and Hamilton.

The Bermuda Athletic Association, which has been meeting Ivy League rugby teams in the spring vacation contests, will come to this country next fall and will meet Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton and other teams on its tour.

The Big Green ruggers opened their regular spring schedule against Princeton on April so. They will meet M.I.T. at Wheaton College, Norton, Mass., on May 5; Montreal in Hanover on May 12; and the New York Rugby Club in Hanover on June 9 as the athletic feature of Commencement weekend.

The Dartmouth Rugby Club, self-financed like the Rowing Club, hopes to make a trip to England next Christmas vacation, if enough money can be raised to swing it. Scheduling arrangements are now under way.

Doug Stevenson '56, captain of Dartmouth's title-winning rugby team, receives the BermudaIntercollegiate Cup from Governor Sir Alexander Hood after the College Week final.