A WEEKEND TO CHEER

The Dartmouth basketball team that took the floor on the evening of January 6 had only one thing in its favor - the home court. The Indians, still smarting from three straight defeats, lacked both height and manpower. During Christmas vacation they were handed two defeats in the ECAC Tournament at Madison Square Garden, first by LaSalle, 87-60, and then St. Johns, 71-40. On January 4 the Green dropped another contest, this time to a highly rated Holy Cross team, 80-48. The Crusaders' Jack "The Shot" Foley was his usual high-scoring self with thirty points, while the Indians' Steve Spahn netted nineteen, sixteen in the last half.

The line-up for the Indians against Harvard was the same as it had been in recent weeks. Barry Elson and Steve Spahn were at the guards, Steve Swirsky and Bill Shanahan at the forwards, and Sam Barton at center. Since our last report Jim Bell (6-8) and Bill Bahrenburg (6-6), the team's first- and second-string centers, have left the team, the latter for academic reasons.

The Indians opened up an early first-half lead against the Cantabs and led by as many as nine points midway through the period. Three fouls on both Barton and Shanahan, however, forced Coach

Julian to turn to his bench for support. Francis Hanlon and Bob Johnston each turned in a fine performance, but the Indian lead began to disappear. As the buzzer sounded at the half, the score read 28-26 in favor of the Green.

In the second half, sparked by the sharp shooting of Spahn, the Indians pulled out in front again. A junior from Great Neck, Long Island, Spahn tallied 29 points for high-scoring honors. Harvard, hot from the outside however, fought back until only four points separated the two teams. Captain Bill Shanahan, playing one of the finest games of his career, scored a basket on a fast-break drive that all but iced the contest with a minute left to play. The Green captain had twelve points and Barton had ten. It was an all-around team effort, though, that gave the Indians the 61-55 victory.

The Green hockey team, playing only its second game since mid-December, opened the Ivy League season against Yale. On January 3, the Indian sextet had bowed to Boston College, 6-3, but the Eagles scored five of their six goals with Indians in the penalty box.

Dartmouth hockey fans, therefore, expected to see some exciting hockey when the Indians met Yale on January 6, and they were treated to just that. The Elis took command in the first period with three quick goals, but from that point on it was a more even contest. Warren Loomis scored for Dartmouth on a face-off at 16:41 of the first period and Derek Buntain slapped one into the nets with one second remaining in the period to make the score 3-2.

In the second period each team scored once with wing John Fiske registering the Green goal. In the third and final period the Bulldogs' Coley Burke scored at 8:34 to give the Eli what appeared to be sufficient margin for victory. With three minutes remaining to play, however, Jack Phelan blasted home a shot to make the score 5-4. At 18:16, when a Yale skater was penalized for elbowing, Coach Jeremiah yanked goalie Kevin Lowther and the stage was set. For the last minute and half the Indians controlled the puck, but with no success. With ten seconds showing on the clock, second-line center Derek Buntain, outside the blue line, sent the puck into the cage to tie the game at 5-5. At 1:23 of the sudden-death overtime period Phelan scored on a backhand shot from only a few feet out, thus writing the final chapter to a great Dartmouth victory, 6-5.

Despite a man named John Thomas, the Dartmouth track opened its 1962 indoor season on January 6 in winning form, but it did it the hard way. Thomas not only won his specialty, the high jump, with a leap of 6-6, but he was first in the high hurdles and second in the shot put and broad jump.

Going into the 50-yard dash, the Indians trailed by nineteen points, 41-22, and any combination of fourteen points in the final six events would have given the Terriers the meet. In the dash, however, Gerry Ashworth tied the Dartmouth and cage record, a mark he himself self set last year, with a time of 5.4 seconds.

In the pole vault, B.U. was whitewashed. Fred Bates was first with a leap of 12-8, followed by John Holland and Steve Geary. This cut the Terrier lead to 44-37.

Boston University's Art Freeman, who had already beaten both Tom Laris and Nick Jennison in the mile, took Jennison on again in the 1,000-yard run. Despite the hopes of the Green, Freeman crossed the finish line first and another B.U. runner was third. The score then read 50-40 in favor of B.U.

Eric Thompson and John Larsen posted a one-two finish in the two-mile run to move the Green even closer, 51-48, and at that point everything depended on the one-mile relay. On the first leg it was a duel between the versatile John Thomas and the speedy Gerry Ashworth. The Green runner won the battle for supremacy and gave his teammates, Stu Hallagan, Langdon Scott and Tom Holzel, a lead they never lost. Their winning time was 3:25.6. B.U. did not enter a team in the two-mile relay and the Indians added five more points for a 58-51 victory.

In a meet that was highlighted by a new record and an upset, the Indian swimming team eked out a 48-47 victory over Brown at Providence. It was Hank Marshall's win in the 200-yard breaststroke, an event the Indians had to sweep, that clinched the meet.

A new Dartmouth record was established in the 400-yard medley relay by the foursome of Jay Pierson, Marshall, Terry Bentley, and Carl DuRei. The time of 3:37.5 eclipsed the old mark by one-tenth of a second.

A major upset was pulled off when Ron Prior defeated the Bruins' Ron Morris in the 200-yard freestyle in a time of 2:12.4. Captain Terry Bentley was a two-event winner capturing both the 200-yard butterfly and the 200-yard individual medley. Mike Wolland was also awarded a first place in the diving.

Coach Bill Craver's wrestling team also entered the winner's circle on January 6 with a 17-8 victory over Worcester Polytech Institute. Captain Ellie Torbert led the lower-weight men to five straight victories as he earned a 7-3 decision. Sophomores Carl DuPuy and Lee Slocum, as well as Ivars Bembris and Floyd Moore posted decision. Lee Bateman managed a tie in the heavy weight division for the Indians' only points in the upper weights.

That was the story oil January 6, but what has happened since that weekend? Of the five varsity teams mentioned above only the wrestling team has continued to win. But for a look at what took place during that week of January 13 here's the report.