Hockey

Coach Eddie Jeremiah's varsity hockey team also continues to pace the Ivy League contenders as it has now for two seasons. But the Big Green skaters are facing and will continue to face rugged competition in holding the No. 1 spot.

Yale, an early victim of the Indians by a 4"3 count on the Hanover ice, is out to gain revenge for this lone league loss. Harvard was held off by an aggressive Indian attack on the Cambridge rink ice after an upset Winter Carnival win over the Big Green. The Indians also have two games remaining with Brown, always a formidable opponent, and one with Princeton.

Bobby Moore, first-line wing, leads the Dartmouth scorers with 19 goals. His firstline mates, Jake Haertl and Mike Hollern, account for 19 more goals, while Captain Rusty Ingersoll has tallied ten times from his defense slot. Goalie Tom Wahman continues his fine play in the nets.

The Dartmouth sextet scored three goals in both the second and third periods to outlast Northeastern's visiting team, 7-3. Hollern and Jim Richards paced the Dartmouth attack, with Hollern achieving the hat trick and Richards adding two more.

The Indians had easy evenings in home-and-home encounters with Cornell, winning, 12-0 and 11-0. Coach Jeremiah's first line accounted for 19 points, eight goals and 11 assists, in the first tilt, and four goals and seven assists in the second.

Harvard proved a more difficult foe for the Indians in a two-game series. The Cantabs put a temporary damper on Winter Carnival as they hustled to a 3-1 decision over the Green before a capacity crowd on Saturday moxning. This victory gave the Harvards a temporary tie with Dartmouth for league honors. Second-line wing Bruce Thomas scored-twice for the visiting Cambridge six in a third period which also saw Moore tally Dartmouth's lone score. Harvard came through with one of its best league games - outside the league the Cantabs have topped Boston University's powerful six twice - and the Indians gave one of their "down" performances.

The tables were turned in Cambridge, however, as the Big Green team easily outclassed a game Harvard six. The game was hotly contested for only one period, as the Indians tallied three in the second period to break a 1-1 deadlock. A fifth goal was added in the final period.

As in other games, the Big Green's third line of Phil Roy, Mike Butler and Richards was the standout unit of the night, with sophomore center Roy scoring two goals and two assists. The Dartmouth defense was strong under pressure with Captain Ingersoll and Ryan Ostebo stopping almost every Harvard rush.

In other non-league encounters, Dartmouth battled through an overtime period to a 2-2 tie with Army, lost a close, hard-fought match to Boston University, 4-3, and dropped a 6-4 encounter with Middlebury. The Indians had edged the Panthers of Vermont, 4-3, in January, but on the Hanover ice the strength of Middlebury's Fryberger line, three sons of Dartmouth alumnus Robert M. Fryberger '29, plus all-American selection Phil Latreille, proved the decisive factors.

Another Ivy championship is possible, and if gained, it will be well earned.