Tennis

We next visited with Coach Red Hoehn as he watched his tennis team prepare for a rugged three-match road trip. In three days the tennis team ' would face Army, Princeton, and Penn. But this is a Dartmouth team that has gained the respect of college tennis teams throughout the East. It should be noted that since 1958 the tennis team has won 56 matches while losing only 16. In fact, the Indian racketmen have lost no more than four matches a season during the last four years. They can be tabbed as Dartmouth's winningest spring team during that period.

Coach Hoehn again has a talented team which includes five lettermen and one sophomore. The outlook is, therefore, for more of the same brand of winning tennis.

So far this season the tennis team has posted a 5-2 record, losing twice to powerful North Carolina but defeating Duke, North Carolina State, Washington and Lee, George Washington, and Navy. All six of Coach Hoehn's top singles players returned to Hanover with winning records.

Heading the list is Gordon Aydelott, a senior and number three man on the team. He lost only one out of seven matches. We should mention that his one loss was inflicted by Coach Hoehn's son Ted, now a student at North Carolina.

Number one for the Green this spring is Jim Biggs, a senior from Southport, Conn., who compiled a 4-3 mark in the South. His most recent victory was against Colin Fox of Navy, ranked number five on last year's all-league team. In three years at Dartmouth Biggs has won 28 matches and lost twelve.

Phil Meyer, another senior and a product of Burlingame, Calif., is sporting a 5-2 record and is playing number two. He has a career mark with the Indians of 32 wins and six losses. The other top players include Dave Smoyer at number four, Doug Floren at five, and Doug Judah at six. All three men have 4-3 records after seven matches in the South.

Once again Princeton, Yale, and Harvard appear to be the toughest foes on the schedule. During the last four years the Green has been beaten eleven times in all by these three teams. The Elis were defeated 5-4 last year. A quick bit of mathematics shows that the Indians have lost only five matches to teams other than the Big Three over a four-year span.

On the spring trip Tennis Coach RedHoehn had a chance to visit with hisson Ted, who as a sophomore member ofthe North Carolina team inflicted a pairof defeats on his Dartmouth opponents.