Skiing

The Dartmouth ski team has been the brightest star in an otherwise dark athletic season. Still undefeated, the Green skiers have been victorious at both the Williams Winter Carnival as well as their own.

Captain Jim Page turned in a brilliant display of skiing at Williams, winning three events and placing well up in a fourth. He was appropriately named Skimeister. The Indians thus entered their own winter carnival favored to win the Carnival Trophy for the first time in four years.

This time the prognosticators were right.

The first event, the downhill race, was scratched because of icy conditions and a giant slalom was substituted. Page led the field as he covered the course in 77.4 seconds. Fred Jones was third and Pat Terenzini was fifth, thus giving the Green a two and a half point margin over second-place St. Lawrence.

On Friday afternoon Page came back to win the cross country race in 57:34. Dave Hanscom and Spence Jackson of Middlebury were second and third, while Dick Breen and Ed Williams of the Green were fourth and fifth respectively. John Dickey Jr. finished in the eighth position. After two events Middlebury moved into second place some five points back of the Indians.

Saturday morning was a tragic one for Jim Page as he fell on the slalom course and finished last. Terenzini, however, repeated his performance of the preceding week to win the event. His best times were 61.8 and 63.6 seconds. Terenzini's finish also gave him a first place in the alpine combined standings. Middlebury skiers made a fine showing in the slalom though, and picked up several points on the front-running Green.

High winds postponed the jumping until Sunday morning when Page took command again. The Indian captain compiled 200.6 points to win the jumping, beating Hanscom of Middlebury by three points. Dick Breen was the only other Green skier in the top ten as Middlebury took team honors 96.1 to 95.6. Frank Hannah was twelfth in the jumping and Jim Jacobson was fifteenth.

The final team standings saw the Green first with 580.1 points, Middlebury was second with 574.1 and New Hampshire, Norwich, Harvard, St. Lawrence, Maine, Williams, Vermont and Yale finished in that order. Pete Swallow of Middlebury was named Skimeister, even though Page became the first Green skier ever to win three events in a Dartmouth Winter Carnival. His poor finish in the slalom cost him a chance at the Skimeister title, while Swallow placed well in all four events.

Green captain Jim Page '63 from LakePlacid, N. Y. is a four event star for thisyear's successful ski team. At Carnival hebecame the first skier in Dartmouth history to win three events.

One of the strong men of the Dartmouthcross-country squad is Ed Williams '64whose home is Rosendale, New York.