Lacrosse

Despite an overall record of five wins and six defeats, Dartmouth's surprising lacrosse team still has an outside chance for the Ivy League title. The Big Green stickmen have a 3-1 mark in league play, with their only loss coming at the hands of Princeton, currently leading the league. If Dartmouth can defeat Cornell in the final game of the season and if the Tigers should lose at least one league encounter, Dartmouth and Princeton could end up tied for league honors.

Like all Tom Dent coached teams, the lacrosse team has played over its head in most league games. The Indians this year have been good on attack and at midfield, but rather weak defensively. This defensive weakness has been aggravated by injuries.

Sophomore defenseman Bill Morton (the son of William G. Morton '28, Alumni Fund chairman) was injured in early May against Syracuse and has just returned to action. However, since then John Bennisch and Jon Herriott, also defensemen, were both injured and have missed the past two contests. This has posed some major defensive problems for Coach Dent, although Randy Malin had done remarkably well in the goal and his play has helped the Indians considerably.

Since last month the Dartmouth stickmen lost to Syracuse 10-6, and to league-leading Princeton 11-1, then edged Yale 11-10, walloped Brown 17-3 and Harvard 15-3, before being edged by Colgate 12-10. In the most recent contest, the Big Green took Penn for another league victory, 16-6, as Doc Rice and Skip Bohn tallied six and five goals each.

Dick Frisch, Skip Bohn and Doc Rice - all veterans - have been outstanding on the Dartmouth attack line all spring, while Cal Perry, Clayt Freeman and Charlie Grafton have done extremely well at midfield.

This has not been the strong team that Dartmouth has been used to in lacrosse, but it has played hard and well and if perseverance and fight have anything to do with it, it may well come through in the Ivy League race.