HOCKEY
The hockey team under Coach Ab Oakes is beginning to jell and to date has compiled the best overall record, 5-1, for the season. Since our last report, the team has posted four victories in a row. Following the Christmas holidays, the Green sextet traveled into Maine where it first toppled Bowdoin 5-3 and then Colby by the same score. It then returned home to beat New Hampshire 3-2 in overtime and most recently Yale 5-2 in its Ivy League opener.
Coach Oakes has juggled his lineup in an attempt to give the Green more scoring punch. The line of Chip Hayes, Dean Mathews, and Phil Cagnoni is now number one and the Carpenter line moved back to number two. The two lines, however, are considered almost equal in ability. One further change has seen Jay Wholley, a former wing on the Carpenter line moved to defense. There he has teamed up with Craig Rockwell to give the Green good reserve strength. Sophomore Dick Larson has joined John Carpenter and John Fiske on the second line and has provided just the spark that Coach Oakes was looking for. The Carpenter-Fiske-Larson combination has produced six goals in the last four games.
The third line of Bill Jevne, Jim Cooper, and Jack Stebe continues to hustle, but to date it has only accounted for two goals. Oakes expects that within another week Paul Rosendalh of Edina, Minn., will be ready for action, following a leg injury, and he could bolster this third line.
Dartmouth has continued to be rough behind the blue line. The board work against Yale is testimony enough that Dartmouth will be tough to beat this winter. A big factor in this success are first-team defensemen Chuck Zeh and Charlie Stuart. Both stand six feet or better and are tough to get past. In reserve, besides Wholley and Rockwell, are John Steinbauer and John Case.
Goalie Terry Guiney has been sidelined with a throat infection since Christmas, but sophomore Brewster Gere of Clinton, N. Y., has taken over the goal tending and has done an exceptional job. In fact, if Gere continues to push them away as he has, Guiney will have his work cut out trying to crack the starting lineup again. In four games, Gere has allowed only 2.5 goals per game.
Defenseman Fran McGrath, one of three seniors on the team, has given up hockey. On the other hand, eight sophomores are now playing key roles and despite their inexperience are showing real promise.
The Ivy League opener with Yale brought a standing-room-only crowd to Davis Hockey Rink. The Indians did not disappoint their fans as Larson scored twice, followed by goals from Hayes, Fiske, and Cagnoni. Hayes leads in the scoring department thus far, with three goals and eleven assists for a total of fourteen points. Mathews has eleven points from two goals and nine assists, and Cagnoni has nine points on six goals and three assists.
The toughest part of the schedule lies ahead, for Harvard and Brown must be considered the teams to beat in the Ivy League race.
(Dartmouth's four-game winning streakcame to an end at Harvard's Watson Rinkas the Crimson iced a 4-3 victory in thethird period. The Indians led twice andwere in the game all the way. DefensemanCharlie Stuart paced the Greenattack with a pair of goals.)
