RUGBY

"Yanks Lose But Not Outclassed." This headline in a Glasgow paper serves as an apt summary of the Dartmouth rugby team's spring vacation tour to Germany and Scotland. The record was five lost, one tied, but even so the 9,000-mile tour was highly successful and did credit to the team and to American rugby.

Under the auspices of the People to People Program, and with funds partially contributed by alumni, Hanover merchants and other friends, the Big Green ruggers brought Hannover, Germany, and Hanover, N. H., together when they met an amateur club, Rick-lingen 'OB, the top rugby team of Ger- many in 1960, to open the tour. The Germans won a hard-fought game, 11-3. From Germany the team traveled to Glasgow for three games with Jordanhill College, Hutchensons School, and Glasgow University. In their 11-3 loss to Jordanhill, Dartmouth's ruggers were so impressive that the next day Hutchensons played their entire first team rather than a combined first-second team as originally planned. This game was the only lopsided loss of the trip, 27-5. Before leaving Glasgow, the visitors did manage to tie Glasgow University 16-16. Against Edinburgh University, Dartmouth for the third time lost by an 11-3 score. The last game, the sixth in ten days, was an 18-0 loss to the Edinburgh Wanderers.

During the tour several individual players received praise in the papers and from the team's opponents. Football end Charley Greer was outstanding at his second row position. Former All-Ivy tackle Bill Blumenschein and junior line-backer Ted Bracken also were recognized for their aggressive play. Bobby Hamilton as fullback was as good as any he played against.

The value of the tour was pointed up in the Club's first game with Boston on April 11. This was the same team that had tied Dartmouth 3-3 last fall. The result this time was a convincing 13-0 win for the Dartmouth side. Similar successes will be looked for in upcoming games against Yale for the Hartford Cup and Harvard for the Manchester Cup.