A Summary of the Past Month in Sports
Football
Dartmouth 7, New Hampshire 6 Dartmouth 15, Penn 0 Dartmouth 20, Brown 0 Holy Cross 9, Dartmouth 8
Late Score: Harvard gave the Big Green its first Ivy League defeat of the season, 9 to 6, at Cambridge on October 22.
A field goal with twenty seconds remaining meant victory for Holy Cross and the end of a winning streak at eight games for the Big Green. The two Ivy League wins, however, over Penn and Brown, placed Dartmouth in a tie with Yale and Princeton for the league lead.
Jack Kinderdine, a 170-pound quarterback from Miamisburg, Ohio, has been the spark which has ignited the fire in the Green backfield. He has shown himself to be both a fine passer and ball-handler. Right halfback Al Rozycki has been the leading ground-gainer in the first four games and a thorn in the side of all four opponents.
Injuries have hurt the Green. Probably the biggest losses occurred in the Penn game when two starters, left end Connie Persels and right tackle Mike Mooney, were both sidelined with leg injuries. At this writing it is anticipated that both may be ready for action again before the end of October.
The Big Green bench has come through with some able replacements, and the Dartmouth line, spearheaded by Captain Ken DeHaven at center, has proven rugged on both defense and offense. Going into the Holy Cross game, the Green was ranked third nationally on defense.
Freshman Football
Dartmouth 21, Brown 6 Dartmouth 23, Holy Cross 20
"B" Team
Fort Devens 28, Dartmouth 14 Dartmouth 26, Norwich 0
This year's freshman team has already made history by becoming the first Dartmouth freshman team under Coach Earl Hamilton to beat Holy Cross. They did it the hard way, though, by first giving the Crusader freshmen a 14-0 lead. Quarterback Dana Kelley passed for two of the touchdowns and plunged over for the third on a quarterback sneak.
In their opening game against Brown, the '64s unleashed a running attack sparked by Chris Vancura, who ran 83 and 33 yards for a pair of touchdowns.
With four games yet to play, it appears as if Coach Hamilton has one of the finest freshman teams in recent years.
Cross Country
Manhattan 20, Dartmouth 48 Yale 22, Dartmouth 36, Columbia 82 Brown 20, Dartmouth 28
With two of their finest runners handicapped by injuries, the Big Green harriers have yet to taste victory. Tom Laris, the team's captain, was sidelined before the Manhattan meet by an injured Achilles tendon and Nick Jennison has been hampered with an ankle injury.
Both men ran in the triangular meet with Yale and Columbia and in the dual meet with Brown, but neither was up to his potential. Only a junior, Laris is expected, barring any further injury, to be back in form for the Heptagonals on November 4.
Other runners have included Dud Halligan, Bill Obershain, Dan Tomkins, all juniors, and sophomores Pete Wells and Roy Benson.
As can be seen, Coach Ellie Noyes has a comparatively young team with not a single senior among the starters. Though the present season may be a long one for the Big Green, the future may be brighter.
Freshman Cross Country
Yale 29, Dartmouth 42, Columbia 61 Brown 25, Dartmouth 34
The '64 cross-country team was still looking for its first win of the season as it met Harvard. Jeff Burnham appears to be Coach Ellie Noyes' leading freshman runner. He finished second in the Yale and Columbia triangular meet and also in the Brown meet.
Other Green runners include Ken Sack, Eric Thompson, Dave Putnam, and Derick Denby.
Soccer
Connecticut 3, Dartmouth 1 Penn 3, Dartmouth 2 Dartmouth 4, Brown 0 Amherst 3, Dartmouth 0 Princeton 3, Dartmouth 1
The varsity soccer team is off to a slow start with only a single win in five games. Coach Whitey Burnham, in his first season at the helm, feels that the team has yet to show its real potential.
Left wing Steve Chase and center forward Frank Mori each scored a pair of goals in the Green victory over Brown at Providence. The Green line-up in the Brown game, as in all the others, was heavily laden with juniors and sophomores.
Another factor in the soccer picture is that the Green was on the road for all but one of its first five games. Penn was played in Hanover. Now as the team approaches the halfway mark in the season, it has five straight home engagements with Harvard, Williams, Yale, M.I.T. and Columbia in that order. The final game will be at Ithaca against Cornell on Nov. 12.
Freshman Soccer
Dartmouth 3, Brewster 1 Dartmouth 2, K.U.A. 0 Dartmouth 1, Exeter 0 Dartmouth 1, K.U.A. 0 Andover 4, Dartmouth 2
The '64 soccer team put together four straight wins before going down to defeat at the hands of a strong Andover team, 4-2. Coach Ab Oakes '56 has several fine players, who should add a great deal of potential to the varsity.
Center Ivars Bebris has been a standout on ball-handling, and in both the Andover and Exeter games Lee Chilcote did fine work at forward, Pete Thomsen has been in the goal for the freshmen and has made some fine saves.
With four games remaining on their schedule, the '64s will be tested against Harvard, Williams, New Hampton and St. Paul's before the season is finished.
Rugby
Dartmouth 17, Montreal Irish 0 Dartmouth 0, MIT 0
"B" Team
Boston Rugby Club 11, Dartmouth 8
In its opener at Montreal the Dartmouth rugby team scored all 17 points in the second half. Tries were scored by Chuck Dayton, Hank Sarpy, Kent Slaby and two by Tom Conger. Bill Carlson had one two-point conversion.
Though most of the MIT game was played at the Tech end of the field, the Green was unable to push the ball across.
"If I had dropped it, I would have kept on running into the Field House," said Connie Persels, left end, who got behind the Penn secondary and took Jack Kinderdine's pass to score in the Ivy League contest in Hanover.
