WITH THE BIG GREEN TEAMS

THE biggest and most welcome news on the athletic scene this past month was the long-awaited announcement that construction will start immediately on a new field house for the Big Green teams. As described elsewhere in this issue this enormous enclosed arena will provide badly needed practice facilities for many Dartmouth teams during inclement weather and marks the first major addition to Dartmouth's athletic plant since the Davis Rink.

The need for such a facility was particularly dramatized this spring. The Big Green varsity teams left for their spring vacation trips to the Southland with very limited indoor workouts. Most teams were severely hampered during the spring trip by bad weather, and then returned to Hanover only to find playing fields still covered alternately by rain and early April snows. At this mid-April writing a late spring snowstorm has swirled into Hanover, threatening to add another four to six inches of snow to the area.

Welcome as the new field house is, it has created a problem for the varsity baseball team. If construction gets under way on May 1 as scheduled, the Indians will play their first and last home game of the 1961 season on April 29 against Princeton. After that the bulldozers move in to dig up the area where the varsity diamond is located, and the new varsity diamond, being laid out on Chase Field, will not be ready until next year. Dartmouth's remaining seven home games will probably be played in Lebanon or Claremont.

Two veteran Dartmouth coaches will be honored in May. Big Green soccer and lacrosse players are gathering at the Hanover Inn on May 6 to tender a retirement dinner to Tom Dent, while on May 10 a host of Dartmouth hockey players will fete Eddie Jeremiah at a dinner in the Hotel Kenmore, Boston.