Coaches' Corner ...

DOGGIE JULIAN: Some basketball seasons you win games and other seasons you build character. The latter is true this year. Having lost five of our first six men from last year's squad and with a junior class that was not heavy on material, we currently have a fourteen-man squad, of which nine are sophomores. Inexperience is one of the chief reasons for our record to date. We are improving, but whether enough I do not know.

Our tallest prospect, 6'8" sophomore Jim Bell, has been unable to play to date because of a bone infection. Shanahan was late starting due to an injury, and both Meyer and Church are presently sidelined with injuries.

Overall our speed is not good, our defense is erratic, and rebounding certainly could be improved. However, our shooting is pretty good, especially from the outside. We still make a lot of mistakes, but I believe this will be remedied as our sophomores gain experience.

We are not going to give up. The boys' spirits are good and they are trying. Maybe along the way we'll upset a team or two, particularly if our captain, George Ramming, continues to have a good season. Our freshman team is fair this year, and we may get a few players to play varsity ball.

In closing this report I would like to remind the alumni that it never makes me unhappy to have news of good basketball players in their areas, especially if the boy is a good student of Ivy caliber. We're all interested in top scholar-athletes, regardless of the sports they play. On the jersey of every athlete here in any sport is one word Dartmouth.

EDDIE JEREMIAH: In a nutshell, this year's varsity hockey team is hurting badly behind its blue line. It's not easy to replace last season's impenetrable defensive trio of Ail-Americans - goalie Tom Wahman and defenseman Rusty Ingersoll, both named All-American, and Ryan Osterbo, who was an Ail-American finalist.

Although this year's defensemen are adequate, my goalies are "very green" because they have had little or no secondary school experience. My forward lines are stronger than last year as attested by nineteen goals in the first four games, but the fact that our opponents also have scored nineteen goals in the same games proves my point. As a result my heart has changed shape and now looks and acts like a thermometer. With the team scoring frequently my spirit rises rapidly and hopefully, but as our opponents start scoring it plunges to the depths with great speedy

Mv overall hope is that we win our share of the one-goal games. And old prophet Jeremiah predicts that Dartmouth will not have a single shutout all season. Harvard is a cinch for the Ivy League championship this winter and shouldn t lose a single league game.

The freshman team, coached by Ab Oakes '56 and captained by John Carpenter '64 of the Northwood School, has good balance and will provide helpful replacements for our varsity next winter.