WITH THE BIG GREEN TEAMS

THE past month (mid-December through mid-January) was a brilliant and exciting period for Dartmouth athletics. It began appropriately with the Big Green rugby team leaving for a Christmas holiday trip to England, to meet seven British opponents under President Eisenhower's "People to People" sports program, and ended with a stirring testimonial dinner given by the Dartmouth Alumni Council to honor the Big Green's Ivy League championship football squad. More complete reports on both the rugby team's trip and the football dinner will be found elsewhere in this issue.

Despite a longer-than-usual Christmas recess, other Dartmouth teams saw plenty of action with the basketball team playing in the mid-west, returning east to win the Queen City Tournament, and then making a strong bid to retain its Ivy League championship by winning over four Ivy opponents in a row. The Big Green hockey team headed for Minnesota over Christmas, then returned to play some outstanding hockey to defeat Army and win its first league game of the season over Princeton. A new indoor world's record in the high jump by a Boston University freshman was the highlight of an early January dual meet won by the Indians, while the squash team found itself blanked by a blizzard in attempting to reach Montreal for a match against McGill. Several new track and swimming records were set in January in Hanover contests and Dartmouth skiers gave promise of another good year by performing well in early season individual meets in the east.

For the records, the Dartmouth basketball team has chalked up nine wins against four defeats, with four wins and no losses in Ivy League play; the hockey team has posted four wins against five defeats, with one win in Ivy competition; the swimming team has three wins and one defeat; the track squad has split even, winning one and losing one in dual competition; the squash team has two victories and no defeats; and the wrestling team has one win and no defeats. Varsity totals through January 17 show 19 wins against 11 losses.

Dartmouth freshman teams launched their schedules for the most part in early January. The '62 basketball squad has three wins against two losses, the hockey team has won three and lost one, the freshman swimmers have a one-one record in dual competition, the track team also has a one-one mark, while the squash team has lost its only match to date. Eight wins and six losses for freshman teams coupled with the 19-11 varsity record total 27 wins and 17 losses to date for the Dartmouth winter squads.