Hockey

Dartmouth's hockey team offers a vivid contrast to their basketball-playing brethren. Under-rated at the start of the season and probably rightly so, they have played with an amazing fight and determination which has carried them from behind in many games and placed them for the moment atop the Ivy League.

A long-shot gamble by Coach Eddie Jeremiah in moving Tom Wahman from goal to center on the first line has been a major factor in this success. A fine goalie in Dirk Frankenberg, a staunch defense in Ryan Osterbo and Russ Ingersoll, a steady juggling of lines, and strong improvement by the third line have been other factors.

But spirit is the big factor. The spirit which brings the players out for unscheduled practice sessions, which rallies them when they get behind, and which makes them play together like veterans rather than just average collegiate hockey players - this is probably the decisive factor in the marvelous results which have been achieved thus far.

Since last month the high-flying Indians upset Boston University, 7-5; surprised Harvard, 4-2, and Boston College, 4-3; downed Yale, 5-1; and then lost the only game of the month to Northeastern, 4-3, before avenging an early season loss to Middlebury by 7-5 and thumping Cornell, newest league entry, by an 11-2 score.

Sophomore wing Bob Moore has been the team's top scorer this past month, scoring one or two goals in every contest. Tom Wahman, John Wadman and Captain Rod Anderson, along with Mike Hollern and Chuck Ritchie, are other Big Green players who have scored well. In the two most recent contests goalie Dirk Frankenberg has been out with an injury and Wahman has moved back to goal, but the team continues to play "heads up" hockey and will be hard to stop with only Yale and Brown to be conquered for the Ivy championship and a berth in the N.C.A.A. playoffs.

Dartmouth's new diving coach, Gunter Mund (second from left), who comes from Chile, shown at a Spaulding Pool practice session with four of his (livers: (l to r) Stu Summers '59, Charlie Hegeman '62, Dave Smith '61 and Glenn Gemelli '61.