Dartmouth's tennis team has been having a better-than-average season thus far with eight wins against six defeats. The Big Green opened the regular season with a 9-0 loss to Amherst, then swept to wins over Penn 8-1, M.I.T. 9-0 and Brown 8-1 before being edged by Yale 5-4. Then Dartmouth downed Columbia 9-0, lost to Harvard 8-1, defeated Army 5-4, lost to Princeton 7-2, and topped Williams 5-3, Colgate 8-1 and Cornell 6-3.
Sophomore Dick Hoehn and Bill Bullen, a returning veteran, played number one and two in most matches and teamed up as the number one doubles team. Chuck Kettering and Captain Tony Jenks, both veterans, were ranked third and fourth, with Jenks teaming with either O. P. Jones or Kettering for the second doubles team. Jack McDonough and Don Miller ranked fifth and sixth followed by Phil Langley and John Horan. McDonough and Miller usually teamed up for Dartmouth's third doubles team.
The Indians have some talent among the top four players, but lack depth and were no match this year for the major eastern teams such as Harvard, Princeton and Amherst.