Tennis

Despite a fairly wet season, the tennis team has had only one match cancelled and has compiled a fairly good record of six wins against five defeats. Dartmouth wins came over M.I.T. 8-1, Brown 9-0, Army 6-3, Williams 5-3, Amherst 5-4 and Cornell 5-4. The Indians lost to Miami 9-0 during spring vacation, then to Columbia 5-4, league-leading Princeton 9-0, Yale 5-2 and Colgate 5-4. Both Columbia and Colgate were extremely close matches which might have gone to the Big Green. Dartmouth split even in league play with three wins and three defeats for third place.

The team has played consistently as follows: Captain Dave Kerr in the number one position, followed by Chuck Kettering, Pete Buswell, Bob Smith, Tony Jenks, and Steve Lampl. Kerr and Buswell, Kettering and Jenks, and Lampl and Tom Schwartz have been the usual doubles teams, with Jenks and Kettering going through the season undefeated in doubles play.

As with golf, the tennis team has had no single outstanding player but has relied rather on a nucleus of good players whose combined efforts have made possible the record. The team improved considerably as the season went along and played particularly well during the final matches as they upset a highly rated Williams team 5-2, lost a very close match to a strong Colgate team, and wound up beating Cornell 5-4 in another upset. Coach Red Hoehn is pleased with the showing of his 1956 squad and feels that next year may be better.

The Dartmouth bench "watches intently as the Indian lacrossers defeat Penn, 12-5.