Skiing

As has been customary in recent past years, Dartmouth's talented skiing squad, under the able tutelage of Coach Walt Prager and assistant coach Al Merrill, continues its domination of the Eastern collegiate skiing scene.

The Big Green skiers chalked up an impressive win to retain the Dartmouth Carnival Cup for the sixth straight year and also capture the Eastern Intercollegiate Skiing Championship. Then on the following weekend they confirmed this victory by winning the Middlebury Winter Carnival meet, although by a slimmer margin than at the Dartmouth Carnival.

The only sour note at the Dartmouth Carnival was a lack of snow which moved the downhill and slalom races from the Dartmouth Skiway to the Suicide Six slopes at Woodstock, Vermont. Here the Indians jumped into an early lead when Dartmouth's brilliant ski captain and Japanese Olympic ace, Chick Igaya, turned in two beautiful runs to win the slalom. Bill Smith won third place for the Indians, Dave Harwood fifth and Ralph Miller, who had a bad time on his first run, eighth place.

Usually weak in cross country, Dartmouth showed surprising strength in the Friday afternoon nine-mile trek over the golf course, with Ralph Miller coming in fifth, followed by Don Taylor and Bill Smith in sixth and seventh places.

At Saturday morning's downhill race at Suicide Six, Dartmouth virtually clinched the meet when Ralph Miller and Chick Igaya finished one-two, with Bill Smith in fifth place. Dave Harwood, who was slightly injured in the slalom, did not compete. Ralph Miller turned in two sensational runs over the 2,300-foot course with clockings of 49.5 and 48.7 seconds, while Igaya's times were 51.8 and 49 seconds.

Dartmouth skiers had only to stand up in the jump to win, but did far better. Don Peterson pulled a major surprise by putting together two leaps o£ 137 and 134 feet to come in second behind Middlebury's Norm Cummings. Ralph Miller finished fifth in the jumping, and this together with his first place in the downhill, fifth place in the cross-country and eighth place in the slalom, won him the coveted Skimeister title as the best all-around competitor in the meet. Igaya, who did not compete in the cross-country race, finished eighth in the jumping for other Dartmouth points.

Final team scores: Dartmouth 583.1, New Hampshire 523.4, Norwich 519-8, followed by Vermont, St. Lawrence, Yale, Williams, Toronto, Harvard, Middlebury and Syracuse - the largest number of team entries in a Dartmouth Carnival yet.

At the Middlebury Carnival, minus the services of Ralph Miller, the Indians had to come from behind to edge out the host team 579.5 to 575.6 with Norwich third, Vermont fourth and Williams fifth.

Chick Igaya was outstanding for the Big Green, setting a new downhill record at the Middlebury Snow Bowl and then capturing first place in the slalom, despite a slip on his second run. Igaya also captured third place in the jumping.

Bill Smith took third for Dartmouth in the slalom, with Bob Gebhardt seventh. Smith also finished well up in the downhill, while Bob Burton's fourth place in the jumping added other points to Dartmouth's cause.

Five other carnival meets and several top-notch invitational meets remain on the schedule for the Indians prior to the NCAA Championships in Colorado the end of March.