Other Sports
Another highly successful swimming season went into the record books as head coach Karl Michael and assistant coach Bob Clotworthy piloted the varsity to nine wins and only three defeats. Since last month the Big Green swimmers lost to Yale, the nation's top-rated team, by a 58-28 score, but got back on the winning side by defeating Syracuse 55-31, Cornell 53-33 and Navy 58-28. In the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League the Indians had a record of five wins and only two defeats for third place.
Dartmouth hockey, still in the rebuilding stage under Coach Eddie Jeremiah, finished the season with the best record since 1950: thirteen wins, nine losses and one tie. The Big Green skaters battled all the way in the Ivy League but had to settle for fourth place. In action this past month they dropped three games by one-goal margins, losing to Middlebury 3-2, Brown 3-2 and Princeton 3-2. The Indian skaters turned in their finest performance of the year in a late-February game with Harvard, league leaders, when they held the strong Crimson team to a 4-4 deadlock. Dartmouth wins were achieved over Northeastern 3-0 and Norwich 5-2, while Boston University thumped Dartmouth 9-2 in one of the Indians' poorest games of the season. Second-line wing Mike Hollern was the team's top scorer with 21 points on eleven goals and ten assists, with fellow Minnesotan, first-line wing Rod Anderson, second with fourteen goals and six assists for twenty points. John Lannigan and Tom Wadman had nineteen points each, while Captain Dave Chapin had eighteen.
The Dartmouth squash team, which Coach Red Hoehn rated as one of the strongest in recent years, ran into difficulty at the end of its schedule, dropping close matches to Army 5-4, Williams 6-3, and Amherst 5-4 before closing the season with a 7-2 victory over Wesleyan. In the intercollegiate matches, Dartmouth's No. 1 player, Dick Hoehn, went through to the semi-finals before being eliminated by his 1957-58 nemesis, Larry Sears of Harvard.
While Dartmouth's freshman track team was going undefeated in five meets, the Big Green varsity had a rather poor season winning only one dual meet in six. Since last month Dartmouth lost to Brown, 61-43, and then was soundly defeated by Yale. In the annual Heptagonal Meet held at Cornell, Dartmouth and Princeton wound up in a last-place tie as the Indians were able to garner only four points. Dartmouth's Jerry Boyle finished fifth in the 600-yard run and the two-mile relay team took third place to account for the four-point total.
In its second season of formal competition, the Big Green wrestling team turned in a highly respectable showing of four wins and five losses and a fifth-place standing in the New England Intercollegiate Wrestling Association meet. February action saw the wrestlers defeating Amherst, 22-8, and M.I.T. twice by identical 24-8 scores, and losing only to Albany State Teachers in a close 18-16 match. Fred Pitzner took a first place in the New England tournament in the 167-pound division for the second straight year, while Bob Bickell, at 177 pounds, took second and Fred Graybeal, at 157 pounds, placed fourth.
A quick look at Dartmouth's freshman teams shows that next winter's season could be even better than the current one. Coach Tony Lupien's basketball squad won nine and lost three and has several youngsters ready to step up to the varsity squad. The freshman skaters, under Eddie Jeremiah, won eleven games, lost five and tied one, and there's some talent on this team for next year. The swimming and track teams both went undefeated as the swimmers won six dual meets and the trackmen captured five. Track Coach Ellie Noyes reports the strongest freshman team in recent years, while Coach Karl Michael says he'll get real help from his freshman swimming squad.
In all, it's been a good winter. But now the ice is gone from the Connecticut, the Dartmouth crews are out in their barge, the baseball, tennis and lacrosse teams are at work indoors, and spring is here - almost. Next month the spring sports picture.
Four top members o£ Dartmouth's crack freshman track team are sons of Dartmouth alumni. L to r: Allen Ward, son of Arthur D. Ward '34, 600 event; Ford Daley, son of Wilbur S. Daley '23, undefeated in the 600 and holder of the freshman record at 1:13.4; Dick Husband, son of Richard W. Husband '26, undefeated in the broad jump; and Norm Page, son of Lincoln R. Page ’31, high jump. Page is the great-grandson of Nathan Lord, President of Dartmouth from 1828 to 1863.
