With Big Green Teams

THE tragic death on June 6 of John Curtis Glover '55, one of the really outstanding athletes of this decade or any other in Dartmouth history, has cast a long shadow over the concluding days of the 1955-56 season. Perhaps it takes a personalized tragedy of this sort to bring home more sharply to each of us the all-important fact that Dartmouth athletics are the young men who, season in and season out, fashion their energies, brains and particular talents into a coordinated effort for the sport they love and the college they represent. In these monthly recordings of the Dartmouth sports scene, the youthful individuals who put so much time and effort into winning for Dartmouth are too often overlooked by the maze of scores, averages, records, and game accounts. The concentrated hours of practice, the strategies developed slowly from long experience, the trials of sitting on a bench, the books that blur in the evenings after practice, the physical fatigue, the pre-game tension, the exalted feeling after a hard-won victory are not matters that lend themselves to easy reporting. In our highly competitive society a man or a team's success in sport is measured rarely by effort - most often by the impartial and arbitrary standards of the won and lost columns. It is the John Glovers, Tim Ellises and other fine young athletes who, abruptly cut off from competition, leave not so much the memories of records and scores, but of youth striving for something which record books can never chronicle.

For the record, however, we do want to report briefly on the results of a few games played since last month's report. We then will go into Dartmouth's football outlook for next fall. With summer just arriving, football may seem far away, but September 1 is just over two months from now and the opening game with the University of New Hampshire only three months hence.