SKIING

We cannot close the book on winter sports without mentioning the fine showing made by the Dartmouth Ski Team at the NCAA championships at Solitude, Utah. The final team standings found the Indians in third place behind champion University of Denver and runner-up University of Colorado.

The Green's 348.9 points were some 32 points off the pace set by Colorado, but considering certain handicaps, the Indians should be praised for a fine performance. Even before the first race, Dartmouth's hopes for a championship were dealt a severe blow as two Green skiers were injured seriously on the Utah slopes.

Pat Terenzini, a fine Alpine competitor, was caught in an avalanche while on a trail run and dislocated his shoulder. The second mishap robbed the team of Fred Hiller, who dislocated a knee. He was working out on the downhill course when the accident occurred.

As a result of these losses Coach Al Merrill was forced to make some lastminute changes. Jim Page was entered in all four events and Ralph Lachenmeier was flown out from Hanover to join the team. Page proved his all-around ability, however, as he won the Skimeister title with 336.0 points. His teammate Dick Durrance was a close second with 331.8.

In the individual events, Durrance was seventeenth in the downhill, while Lachenmeier was 23rd and Page and Jacobson were 25th and 26th. In the slalom Jacob- son was high for the Green finishing eleventh, but Durrance and Page were right behind him in the next two positions.

In the nordic events, Ed Williams was sixth in the cross country, Sel Hannah fifteenth and Durrance and Page eighteenth and nineteenth respectively. Page captured the Skimeister title as a result of his tenth place finish in the jumping. He was beaten, though, by Sel Hannah who was ninth with two leaps of 165 feet. Frank Hannah, the only member of the team not mentioned, was fifteenth in the jumping and Durrance was sixteenth.

In post-season competition several Green skiers took part in the Harriman Cup races, but none finished near the top. Two Dartmouth skiers, Jim Jacobson and Brian Beattie, a freshman, competed in the alpine championships held on Mt. Alyeska in Alaska. Both did very well against good competition. Jacobson was tenth in the giant slalom and Beattie was seventeenth in the slalom.

A look toward next winter finds Coach Merrill's team in a very healthy condition. Page, of course, will be lost through graduation, along with several other fine skiers, but the team as a whole should be just as strong, if not stronger. Not only will men like Durrance, the Hannahs, Jacobson, and Williams be back, but there will be added strength from skiers like Beattie, Frank Barber and Skip Bryant. Barber, now completing his sophomore year, has just returned from the army.

Another bit of good news is that the NCAA championships in 1964 will be held in the East at a site yet to be named.