With Big Geen Teams
LAST month, as we wrote this column, Dartmouth's winter teams were having a breathing spell for the Christmas holidays. This month, after a final burst of activity during the January 17-18 weekend, the Big Green teams get a tenday respite for semester examinations, resuming action on the Winter Carnival weekend, January 31-February 2.
Dartmouth athletes in all sports were delighted to learn the day after their return to campus that head football coach Bob Blackman had "renewed his agreement with the Dartmouth College Athletic Council." No details as to exact terms of the agreement were announced, although it was understood that Coach Blackman had received a "substantial increase in salary." When queried by this reporter, Coach Blackman indicated that this had been "a major decision to make" and that he was planning to remain at Dartmouth on a fairly permanent basis. This was further borne out by his decision to build a home in Hanover. Presumably the assistant coaches he brought with him from Denver three years ago this month - line coach Jack Musick, backfield coach Will Volz and freshman coach Earl Hamilton - along with end coach Elmer Lampe, a holdover from the former staff, will also remain, for Coach Blackman has left little doubt that he is highly pleased with his able staff. In his three years at Dartmouth Coach Blackman's teams have won fifteen games, lost ten and tied two. Six of the ten losses were in the first season and prior to the Princeton defeat which ended the 1957 season his teams had gone undefeated in eleven games.
The winter sports picture during the past month has been almost as bright as the nearly two feet of snow currently blanketing Hanover plain. The Big Green basketball team is perched atop the Ivy League with four straight Ivy wins and an overall record of thirteen wins and only one defeat. The hockey team has won eight and lost three, with a one-one split in early league play; while the varsity swimming team has two wins and two defeats, and the track team two losses in two meets. The squash team is undefeated in three matches and the wrestling team has one victory against two defeats Varsity winter team totals - 27 wins and 10 defeats.
Dartmouth's freshman teams have compiled an even more impressive early record, with the basketball team winning three and losing one, the hockey team undefeated in four starts, the swimming team with a 3-0 record, the track squad with one dual meet victory, and squash with one loss. Freshman totals show eleven wins against two defeats. Combined varsity-freshman totals are 38 wins against only 12 defeats, a most auspicious beginning.
Ryan Ostebo, sophomore defenseman from St. Paul, Minn., scoring against Yale in the Ivy League opener, which Dartmouth won, 5-2, in Hanover last month.
