WITH THE BIG GREEN TEAMS
ANOTHER full year of athletics is about to get underway at Dartmouth and some of the news which developed during the summer will have a direct bearing on the sports scene for the coming year.
Three new coaches were added to the DC AC staff. They are Alden H. "Whitey" Burnham, who will coach varsity soccer and lacrosse; Abner Oakes III 66, who will coach freshman soccer and freshman hockey; and Bruce Putnam Hescock, who will be assistant coach of track.
The 37-year-old Burnham, who succeeds veteran Tom Dent, is a graduate of Springfield College and has been coaching soccer and wrestling at the University of Delaware since 1948. He was an outstanding player in both soccer and lacrosse at Springfield.
Oakes, captain and standout defenseman on the Dartmouth varsity hockey team from 1954 through 1956, is the son of the late Abner Oakes II '26 and the grandson of Charles W. Oakes '83, who scored Dartmouth's first touchdown against Amherst 79 years ago this fall.
Hescock has been assistant track coach at Columbia this past year and succeeds Bill Joyner, who leaves Dartmouth for a post at the University of Nevada. He is a '55 graduate of Boston University and scored more points against Dartmouth at the Alumni Gymnasium cage than any other single competitor. At one time he held the Dartmouth cage record in the high jump at 6' 5 1/8".
Another major event this summer was the start of work on a new varsity baseball diamond which will be located in the southeastern section of Chase Field. This will clear the way for construction of a new indoor cage which is expected to rise on the site of the present baseball diamond, located behind Alumni Gymnasium. The new baseball field will probably not be ready for use until the spring of 1962.
The football stadium has also been readied for fall use with a general refurbishing and the installation of windows in the press box. With new coaches and new facilities, all seems in readiness for the start of a new year, so let's move in for a look at how the fall season shapes up:
