Hockey

Following December victories over Norwich and Colby, the Big Green hockey team took to the road during Christmas vacation to play the University of Minnesota twice and the Duluth Branch of the University of Minnesota in two contests. The Indians dropped all four of these games, losing to Minnesota by 8-1 and 6-1 scores and to Duluth by 9-5 and 3-2 scores.

However, Coach Eddie Jeremiah felt the team had played well against very stiff opposition and that the trip was worthwhile from many aspects. Goal tender Dirk Frankenberg was outstanding despite the losses, as was defenseman Rusty Ingersoll. For these four contests Jeremiah had shifted former goalie Tom Wahman to third-line center and Wahman proved a strong skater and excellent center, scoring his first goal of his career against Duluth. In the first game in Hanover following this trip Wahman moved up to the first line and was instrumental in Dartmouth's 5-3 win over Army as he tallied two goals. Captain Rod Anderson and defenseman Rusty Ingersoll also scored as the Indians played a standout game to defeat a hard-playing West Point club.

A few days later a heads-up Middlebury squad hit hard to collect four goals in the first eight minutes of play and then held on to defeat the Indians 9-5. Both Wahman and Captain Anderson notched two goals each in this contest, but the Big Green was sluggish in the first period and never could quite recover.

Against Princeton, in the most recent contest, the team got back on the winning side as it stopped the Tigers 5-1 to register Dartmouth's first Ivy League victory of the season. Sophomore Jake Haertl scored for the Big Green early in the first period, but Princeton battled back and it was late in the second stanza before Rusty Ingersoll got a second tally on a long shot. In the third period the Indians scored three to wrap up the game, with Tom Wahman and Rod Anderson teaming up to score one each, while Chuck Ritchie got the fifth counter.

With nine Ivy contests ahead during the next six weeks (Cornell has been added to the league this year), the Big Green has its work cut out, but Coach Jeremiah is confident that his skaters will make a strong bid for League honors this winter.