Winter Sports
The final month of action for the Big Green winter teams brought both joy and grief to the campus. After playing like defending champions throughout most of the year, the basketball team came a cropper at the end and lost the league title to Princeton. The hockey team, expected to lose its Ivy championship this year, pulled out several come-from-behind games to win the title for the second consecutive year and gain a berth in the N.C.A.A. playoffs. Dartmouth's varsity swimmers, disappointing at season's end, performed brilliantly at the Easterns; and Dartmouth sophomore sensation, Tom Laris, blazed home to a new two-mile record in the IC4A meet at New York. The Dartmouth ski team, after rather poor showings in the early winter carnival meets, nearly won the Eastern Championships, yielding finally to Middlebury by .22 of a point.
The final records for the Big Green varsity teams read as follows: basketball 14-9, hockey 14-4-1, swimming 7-4, squash 7-10, track 4-2, and wrestling 3-4-1. The varsity totals: 49 wins, 33 defeats and two ties. The freshman team records: basketball 11-3, hockey 8-8-1, swimming 4-3, track 5-1, squash 1-4, and wrestling 1-1. Freshman totals—30 wins, 20 losses and one tie. Thus the combined varsity-freshman winter totals reveal 79 wins, 53 losses and three ties—another fine record.
Last month Dartmouth's basketball team was perched securely atop the Ivy League, but a February 19-20 trip to Princeton and Pennsylvania was disastrous. A weekend snow storm hampered the Indians' traveling, but did not excuse the 76-69 loss to the Tigers or the 68-64 defeat by Penn. The Dartmouth-Princeton game was deadlocked 63-63 at the end of regulation play, but in the overtime period Tiger star Pete Campbell broke the game wide open. Against Princeton Dartmouth's foul shooting was way off, while the following evening at Penn the team played a sloppy game and seemed very tired. The Big Green bounced back after a week's rest to edge Penn, 67-61, but yielded the following evening to Princeton, 77-67, and the title slipped from its grasp. In the final Princeton game Dartmouth was clearly outclassed and the Indians had a poor shooting percentage from the floor. In the final two games Dartmouth defeated Yale, 83-65, and Brown, 87-74, to hold onto second place in the league. It was a dis- appointing ending for a Dartmouth basket- ball team that played well throughout a long season but could not get up for the crucial contests. The final All-Ivy League team, chosen by the coaches, showed Dartmouth Captain Chuck Kaufman just nosed out for a first-team berth by Brown's Mike Cingiser, while Gary Vanderweghe was a second-team selection. Coach Tony Lupien's freshman basketball team swept through its last four contests without a loss as it defeated Vermont, 74-71, Norwich, 76-47, Yale, 74-71, and Brown, 67-58, to compile a fine 11-3 record.
While former Dartmouth hockey star Jack Riley '44 was coaching the U.S. team to an upset championship at the Olympic Games, Coach Eddie Jeremiah's fine 1960 hockey aggregation wound up the season with wins over Yale, Brown and Princeton to retain the Ivy League championship which they also won in 1959. Defenseman Ryan Osterbo collected the winning goal as the Indian skaters edged Yale, 5-4, in a league thriller, and in the following game against Brown first-line wing Bobby Moore collected his 25th goal of the season as he turned the hat trick in leading Dartmouth to a 7-1 win over the Bruins. The Big Green played Brown in the following game and needed a win for the Ivy title. This time the Bruins were stubborn, but yielded finally, 2-1. The Indians ended their home season with a resounding 6-2 victory over Princeton and a 14-4-1 season mark. Because of this record and the league title Dartmouth was selected to play in the Eastern N.C.A.A. hockey tournament, but lost to a strong Boston University team 4-1 in the opening round of play. Thus, for the second year the Big Green hockey team has dominated the Ivy League, and Dartmouth's reputation in this sport has been regained.
After some disappointing early season defeats the freshman hockey squad roared back to win its final four games, defeating Noble and Greenough, 6-0, Vermont Academy, 7-1, Northwood School, 7-3, and Kimball Union Academy, 6-3. These wins evened the season record at 8-8-1. John phelan Jr., a defenseman from Needham, Mass., was chosen captain of the '63 hockey team.
Dartmouth also dominated the All-Ivy League hockey team, selected by league coaches, placing three men on the first team and two on the second team. The Big Green defensive trio, which was so largely responsible for the fine record, were, all first-team picks, which Tom Wahman at goal and Captain Rusty Ingersoll and Ryan Osterbo on defense. The Big Green first-line wings, Bobby Moore and Jake Haertl, who tied for league scoring honors with 21 points each, were second-team selections. League records also revealed that Dartmouth's second consecutive championship was its tenth in 24 seasons of Ivy hockey play.
Dartmouth's varsity swimming team, coached by Karl Michael, split even in dual competition this past month as it lost to Yale, 60-34, defeated Cornell, 67-28, and Pennsylvania, 64-30, and then lost the finale to Princeton, 51-44, for a 7-4 dual meet record. Coach Michael took five mainstays of the team to the Eastern Intercollegiates at Harvard and they all returned with impressive records. Charlie Brown, a junior, and Dartmouth's top freestyler, equalled the E.I.S.L. 50-yard time and broke John Glover's Dartmouth record with a first-place clocking of 22.2. The Big Green's sophomore sensation, Terry Bentley, competed in three events and set Dartmouth records in each of them. Bentley placed second in the 200-yard butterfly race with a time of 2:09.1, captured third place in the 100-yard butterfly in 56.5, and set a new College record in the individual medley with a 2:11.3 mark. The Big Green 400-yard relay team of Captain Tom Travis, Cleve Carney, Dick Prior and Charlie Brown finished a close third behind Harvard and Yale, but set a new Dartmouth College record with a time of 3:28.9. Coach Michael was greatly encouraged by this showing and planned to take the same group to Dallas, Texas, the end of March for the N.C.A.A. Championships.
The freshman swimming team, after a 53-33 loss to Deerfield, wound up its season by dropping Exeter, 65-21, for an overall 4-3 season record. Donald Prior of Port Washington, N.Y., the brother of varsity swimmer Dick Prior, was elected captain of the freshman team.
The big news on the track front during the past month has been the sensational performances by Dartmouth distance runner Tom Laris. After doing the mile in 4:13.7 in a dual meet with Harvard, and winning the two-mile against Cornell, Laris dazzled Eastern fans by breaking out of the pack at the IC4A meet in Madison Square Garden and blazing across with an 8:59 time for the two-mile race (see separate story on Laris on the next page).
During the past month the Dartmouth track team lost to Harvard, 65 1/3 to 43 2/3, and then defeated Cornell, 62½ to 46½ In IC4A competition, Rick Husband placed fifth in the broad jump and John Knight and John Ebers went through to the semi-finals in the 60-yard high hurdles. Dartmouth had to settle for a seventh-place tie in the Heptagonals.
The freshman track team wound up a fine season by defeating Harvard, 71-37, and Cornell, 66 2/3 to 37 1/3 for a 4-1 record in dual competition.
In late-February action Coach Red Hoehn's squash team lost to Princeton, 8-1, then reversed the score to whip Pennsylvania, 8-1, before bowing to the Dartmouth Club of New York team in an informal match, 6-3. Coach Hoehn took four players - Sam French, Hobie Millington, Jack Herrick and Cliff Russell to the Eastern Championships, but Millington was the only player to survive the opening round. He advanced to the third round before losing and the Big Green wound up eighth in a field of fifteen teams.
The freshman squash team dropped its final match to Andover, 5-4, and finished up a disappointing season with only one win in four games.
Dartmouth's skiing colors were worn by Tom Corcoran '54 and Chick Igaya '57 in the Olympic Games at Squaw Valley. Corcoran turned out to be the top American racer, finishing fourth in the giant slalom, which was remarkable, and tenth in the slalom. Igaya, skiing for Japan, came in twelfth in the slalom, but had a fall on his second run or he might have duplicated the Silver Medal he won at the 1956 games.
Meanwhile, Dartmouth and Middlebury were battling it out on the winter carnival circuit, with Middlebury coming out on top this year. At the Middlebury meet the score was Middlebury 590.87 and Dartmouth 550.17. Jim DeLong took second in the downhill and third in the slalom, while Art Bookstrom was second in the slalom and third in the jumping. At the Norwich Carnival, which also was the Eastern Championships, the Big Green almost won, but was finally nosed out by Middlebury, 581.50 to 581.28. DeLong annexed the downhill race, with Bookstrom fourth, but Middlebury swept the slalom, and only a fine showing by Bob Bigelow, who won the cross-country race for Dartmouth and Charlie Lund, who came in sixth, kept the Indians in contention.
In wrestling, Dartmouth had to settle for a 12-12 tie with M.I.T. in the final meet, which gave them an overall record of three wins, four defeats and one tie. Elly Torbert at 123 pounds, Ron Heinemann at 137 pounds, Hop Homberg at 147, and Captain Fred Graybeal at 157 were the Dartmouth winners against M.I.T. Homberg went through the winter undefeated, while Graybeal won in his division in the final four meets of the season.
Final Ivy Standings
HOCKEY GoalsW.L.T. Pts. For Agst. Dartmouth ... 9 1 0 18 57 16 Harvard 7 3 0 14 44 20 Brown 5 5 0 10 29 30 Yale 5 go 10 40 29 Princeton .... 4 6 0 8 37 27 Cornell ...... 0 10 0 0 5 90
BASKETBALL W.L. PF. OP. Princeton ........... 11 3 1010 912 Dartmouth .......... 10 4 1065 964 Cornell ............. 8 6 1007 975 Brown .............. 8 6 1005 999 Penn ............... 8 6 884 833 Harvard ............. 6 8 923 1032 Yale ................ 3 11 990 1074 Columbia ........... 2 12 951 1046
Dartmouth on the attack in the exciting hockey game won at Yale, 5-4.
