Coaches' Corner

RED HOEHN: At this writing almost half of our scheduled matches have been played, and our record stands at a creditable four wins and one loss. We started off with a 9-0 win over M.I.T. early in December. During Christmas vacation six of our players competed in the University Club Invitation Intercollegiate Tournament in New York, and Dick Hoehn went all the way for the second year in a row, defeating Steve Vehslage of Princeton in the final. After Christmas our first match almost ended in disaster when two of our cars collided in a snowstorm in Canada on the way to McGill. The other car did get there, and in an abbreviated, unofficial match three of our four players won.

After a 9-0 win over Perm, we suffered our first defeat at Army. Several matches at West Point went the limit of five games, but only Dick Hoehn and Jack Herrick were victors. The victories over Cornell and Toronto, both 6-3, were like pulling teeth, and we had to come from behind both times. The tougher teams are now ahead, particularly Yale and Harvard. Princeton, Williams and Amherst, all of whom defeated us last year, are within our reach, and should we win all these, our season could be counted a success.

We have six veterans this year and several promising contenders for the other positions. The present ranking is: Dick Hoehn (undefeated), Captain John Horan, Jack McDonough, Don Bartlett, Phil Langley, Marty Zipser, Jack Herrick (also undefeated), Hobie Millington, Sam French, Opie Jones, and Rich Skolnik.

For the first time in Dartmouth sports history, an undergraduate, Dick Hoehn, has been selected to compete in the U. S. Squash Racquets Singles Championships to be held at Boston, February 21-23. Henri Salaun and Diehl Mateer will be the two favorites, but Dick will give a good account of himself. We are entering four men in the national intercollegiate tournament at Princeton, March 6-8, and our group should do well, with Dick having a real chance to win this crown.

BILL CRAVER: Prospects were bright as the season opened. Last year's team won five of eight matches, and only three of the first seven varsity wrestlers were lost through graduation. But a series of injuries to key men developed — to 167-pound Fred Graybeal, 137-pound Jim Sniderman, and heavyweight Duncan Lanum who is still recovering from a football leg injury — and thus we had to open our season with but one letterman, 147-pound John Chilson, the team captain. This is the first year in many that Dartmouth has been able to field a man in each of the eight weight classes, which enables us to go into a match without conceding points before the first bout, as we've had to do in the past. We now have sixteen varsity clubmen, and some thirty in the freshman unit.

To date (Feb. 12) the record is two wins, two losses. We opened against strong Albany State (N. Y.) Teachers' College, the usual Teachers' Conference champion, and won 19-13. Our joy was short-lived, however, as the two bouts with Springfield and Harvard were lost by the same score, 27-3. We returned home for a match against Massachusetts, a team in the New England Conference with us, and won 24-5. We felt that the two previous outings against the stiff competition of Springfield and Harvard gave us helpful experience. Our two remaining matches are with M.I.T. and Amherst, both teams in our league which I feel we can beat. This would give us a 4-2 overall record for the season and a good lead into the New England tourney to be held at Springfield.

Sophomore Ron Heinemann of Arlington, Va., at 137, is undefeated in dual competition, and Captain John Chilson of Loveland, Colo., at 147 pounds, is 2-2, with one loss to last year's New England champion by one point. One sad thing about coaching this team is that two fine competitors are available at 157 in Jerry Cantril, Kremmling, Colo., and Roy Holmberg, Mankato, Minn. As only one can wrestle in each meet, they must take turns. Neither can beat Chilson at 147 - and neither is big enough to wrestle at.167.