IVY SOCCER CO-CHAMPIONS

Dartmouth's soccer team was a squad compelled by slogans. Coach Whitey Burnham is a witty fellow who sparked the long bus trips with his similes. Recently after receiving strong applause at a Hanover Quarterback Luncheon, Whitey said, "Give credit to the team. You can't win a milking contest without a cow." Then describing the squad Burnham said, "They play with the poise of a duck, calm on the surface but paddling like the devil underneath."

Burnham also told his Indian booters this past season, "If not in possession, get in position. The game is won by the ten guys who don't have the ball."

With Burnham chattering on the sidelines and the ten guys without the ball paddling like the devil, the 1964 Dartmouth soccer team compiled the best record in ten years (or since the undefeated '54 season). The Indians had a chance to become undisputed champions of the Ivy League but dropped their finale to Penn, 3-2, and had to share the title with Brown. Dartmouth had a 5-2 league record and Brown a 4-1-2 record, for 10 points each. Even so, this was the Green soccer team's first Ivy title.

They also won a berth in the N.C.A.A. soccer playoffs, drawing Trinity for a first-round opponent at Hartford on November 24. (Trinity won, 2-1.)

As mentioned in the November issue, this Dartmouth soccer team was built around a nucleus of juniors including versatile goaltender Larry Geiger (Harrison, N. Y.). A trio of seniors, Captain Ron Knapp (Canton, Conn.), Hank Amon (Reading, Mass.) and George Martin (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), also contributed immensely.

But the hero of the most important and exciting game during the drive to the Ivy title was a sophomore from Princeton, N. J., Bill Smoyer. He is the brother of 1962 All-America soccer goalie and nine-letter winner Dave Smoyer and much will be heard from him in hockey later on. But probably never again will Bill participate in such a dramatic athletic moment as he did at Ithaca on November 14.

The occasion was the Cornell-Dartmouth soccer game, a tussle which the Indians had to win to keep ahead of a hard-driving Brown team. But for most of the first three quarters Cornell looked more like the Ivy leader than Dartmouth. The Big Red led 1-0 at halftime and 3-0 with only 1:35 remaining in the third quarter.

Then Grant Monahon, a sophomore from Basking Ridge, N. J., and Tequabo lasu, a junior from Ethiopia, scored within 25 seconds of each other to make it 3-2.

Finally with 12 seconds remaining and, in the peculiar fashion of soccer, the home manager following the referee around with a gun and calling off the final moments, young Smoyer got a pass from Monahon and kicked a low ball which hit the goal post and bounced in.

Now the game went into overtime. In soccer they play two five-minute overtimes. If no one scores, the game goes into the records as a tie. So in the second overtime again the manager was on the field with his gun and there were only 22 seconds remaining. And again Smoyer got the ball and kicked it and it hit the post and went in. And Dartmouth had accomplished one of the unbelievable comebacks of soccer history.