With Big Green Teams
LAST month we reported that Dartmouth's spring teams had virtually completed their schedules. These results were posted in late May: Baseball - defeated New Hampshire 3-2 and Vermont 2-1 for an overall record of twelve wins and eight defeats. Lacrosse - defeated Penn 16-6 and Cornell 12-6 for a six-six record and second place in the Ivy League. Golf - defeated Williams 5½ to 1½ and Harvard 4-3 for nine wins and two losses. Tennis - defeated Cornell 6-3 and Middlebury 8-1 for nine wins and six defeats. The way the varsity teams were going at the end, it's a shame the season had to end so soon!
As usual, all spring teams elected captains when their seasons ended. These are herewith reported: baseball - John E. Otis Jr. '58, third baseman from West New York, N. J.; golf — Rodman A. Frates '58 of Oklahoma City; lacrosse - David H. Rice '58 of Deerfield, Mass.; tennis - Wilbur W. Bullen '54 of Waban, Mass.; track — H. Richard Schad '58 of Jenkintown, Pa.; and rugby - Barry A. Stompe '58 of Northfield, Mass.
The 1956-1957 athletic season at Dartmouth is now at an end, just a few days, it seems, before the start of another football season. For the statistical-minded we have reproduced a summary of the records of all Dartmouth varsity and freshman teams for the past year. We note that 541 sophomores, juniors and seniors participated as members of these Dartmouth varsity teams, while 507 members of the Class of 1961 played on the freshman teams. Even allowing for some duplication, it's-safe to say that one-third of Dartmouth's undergraduates participated this year in some form of competitive sport as Dartmouth representatives. A remarkable record, we feel, far more important than any won-lost percentages - although these incidentally are pretty good in their own right.
A. B. Street '18 Director of Athletics "Red" Roife '31 shows a small Dartmouth friend to Reuben A. Holden, Secretary of Yale University, at a Yale dinner in Bridgeport, Conn., where Joe Vancisin '44 was honored for winning the Ivy League championship in his first year as Yale basketball coach.
