WITH THE BIG GREEN TEAMS

STANDING in Leverone Field House in early March, you get the realization of what this huge, new building means to Dartmouth athletics.

For sustained activity in the field house the six weeks before spring vacation are the best. Not only is the track team still practicing and competing in indoor meets on the 11-lap board track there but all the spring teams are sharing the rest of the vast arena in practice sessions of their own.

There is snow and mud on Chase Field but under the high and beautiful Nervi ceiling the atmosphere is that of a sunny day in Florida.

Baseball coach Tony Lupien can run a full-scale infield drill plus two batting practices at one end of the field house while lacrosse coach Whitey Burnham holds a scrimmage in the area beyond the board track. Golfers are thudding shots off canvas drops along the side walls. The tennis team occasionally will set up a net and practice on the dirt floor but generally it prefers the wooden surface of the Alumni Gym basketball floor. Rugby and crew squads are busy with their own workouts as Leverone's lights shine till late at night.

Then on Thursday, March 18, all became quiet there. Two buses left Hanover that afternoon headed for the southland. One had the baseball and tennis squads aboard, the other contained lacrosse and golf. The heavyweight oarsmen loaded shells and took off for Kent School in Connecticut, while the lightweights set up vacation headquarters at Cambridge, Mass. Rugby, which annually arranges the most glamorous trip of all, was off to Nassau.

There was a cautious note of optimism among the coaches as their Green squads headed for the sun.

"We have decent pitching," explained baseball coach Lupien, "and in college ball pitching is even more important than in pro ball. I'd say we have the best depth on a staff in my nine years here.

"On the other hand, I'm afraid we've lost too much defense (the shortstopsecond base combination of Mike Bloom and Hank Ota plus centerfielder Steve Dichter, now in the Yankee chain) and hitting to be a real Eastern League threat."

Two of the many sophomores on the Green diamond squad are well known to gridiron fans. Quarterback Mickey Beard will play second base (Lupien: "I considered having him replace Dichter in centerfield but decided I'd rather have his leadership quality in the infield") and halfback Paul Klungness is a contender for an outfield job.

Another sophomore is the first Dartmouth baseball player from Penacook, N. H., since Red Rolfe. He is lefthanded pitcher Jim Shaw who struck out 50 batters in 32 innings with his freshman nine and also had a fine season in the Cape Cod League last summer under Orleans manager Dave Gavitt '59.

Lupien's probable Big Five in pitching includes Shaw, senior Ted Friel of Pittsfield, Mass. (7-2 with the '64 varsity), juniors Pete Barber of Williamsville, N. Y., and Ron Tracey of Denver, and sophomore Bill Sjogren of Swampscott, Mass., who has recovered from a football leg injury.

For his infield Lupien has done some juggling. Freshman catcher and football center Bruce Smith of Louisville is now at first base. Sophomores Beard at second and Paul Mikus (New Bedford, Mass.) at third are former shortstops while Bill Bower (Ridgewood, N. J.) has moved from third to short. "This is a young infield but' it has good speed and throwing," says Lupien.

The outfield has Barry Machado, a Fall River, Mass., junior who was hampered by a wrist injury early last season, back in left field and senior Ken McGruther of Franklin, Mich., stepping into regular duty in right. Probable centerfielder is Frank Ota, last year's freshman captain and brother of last year's varsity leader from Torrance, Calif.

Big Dick Horton, All-Eastern League catcher with a .337 average last year, is back again as captain of the team and should develop into a top prospect for pro baseball.

The nine was scheduled to play its final vacation trip game at Seton Hall on March 30, then will resume at Columbia on April 16, but won't play at Hanover until May 4. Last year's pitching staff recorded six shutouts, an unusually high number for college ball. This year's edition is on a par or better, so Lupien anticipates many close, fast games.

Whitey Burnham's lacrosse team has a tough act to follow. The '64 Green stickmen posted the best record (8-3) at Dartmouth in 14 years and shared the Ivy League title with Harvard and Princeton.

"It will be a tough row with everyone waiting for us this season," admits Burnham. "Yet in some aspects (speed and depth) I think this squad is a bit ahead of last year's in the early stages."

The Indians have graduated All-America midfielder Mike Herriott, who scored 46 points in 11 games, but Burnham rationalizes as follows: "It may be healthy for the squad not to have Herriott to lean on. They'll have to become more self-sufficient and capable."

There is concern over the situation of football captain-elect Tom Clarke. He has bone chips in that ankle which was broken in the Yale Bowl on October 31, had to miss the spring lacrosse trip, and may see little action all season.

Clarke is a hardnosed crease defenseman and he is being replaced by another football end, sophomore Bill Calhoun of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Captain John Case of Harrisburg, Pa., also is on defense along with Chuck Vernon, West Springfield, Mass. Add All-Ivy League goaltender Brian Walsh of Winchester, Mass., who is heading into his third varsity season, and it is obvious that goals should be hard to achieve against the Big Green defenders.

Position switching seems to be the fate of sophomore Bob MacLeod Jr. The tall lad from Malibu, Calif., was moved from tackle to end in football and wound up second in the Ivy League in pass catching. In lacrosse Bob was an All-New England Prep defenseman at Deerfield but because of his range and speed he'll play midfield for the Dartmouth team and Coach Burnham hopes this switch pays off as well as the football maneuver. Other fleet operators up front include All-Ivy attackman Lee Mercer of Darien, Conn., the Monahon brothers Rick and Grant from Basking Ridge, N. J., and Bruce McKissock of Wynnewood, Pa. Hockey captain Jim Cooper of Rochester, Minn., had to join the lacrosse squad late as did center ice star Chip Hayes of Ann Arbor, Mich., with the baseball team.

Golf coach Tommy Keane has three veteran stars of last year's fine season in Captain Herb Carlson (New Britain, Conn.), Jim Everett (Nashua, N. H.) and Dave Goldstein (West Hartford, Conn.). Among them this trio won 22 and lost only nine in 1964. But Tommy lacks the bright sophomores who made last year's team so dangerous in the lower positions.

Definite improvement is expected by tennis coach .Wayne Van Voorhees. In fact, as he left for the southlands, Van was anticipating a real battle for the four top positions among two of the very good sophomores and two veterans. Captain Tucky Mays of Green's Farms, Conn., and Dave Barton of Silver Spring, Md., played one and two most of last season but are due for a strong challenge from rookies Chuck Hoeveler (a Southport, Conn., lad who was undefeated as a freshman) and Curt Anderson of Mamaroneck, N. Y.

The crew was happy about the early spring which saw the ice start to go out of the Connecticut River in early March. But a series of mishaps depleted the sophomore ranks and Coach Pete Gardner was planning on a mostly veteran boat for the season opener on April 17, the Atalanta Cup race at Brown. He has five veterans from last year's first boat, led by Captain Hugh Lade of Kirkland, Wash., at stroke. To fill the other three seats Gardner was turning to a trio of football players, juniors Dan Williams of Palo Alto, Calif., and Tony Yezer of Silver Spring, Md., plus sophomore Dave Frechette of Keene, N. H.

BIG GREEN BITS: Dartmouth's hockey season apparently hinged on wing Dean Mathews more than anyone realized. ... With 44 seconds remaining in the Brown game at Hanover Feb. 17, Mathews was checked at mid-ice and went off with a leg injury. ... He returned to play again but Dartmouth never won another game from that point on. ... Except, of course, for the annual Alumni Game which was won 10-6 in Hanover on Feb. 27 before a good-sized crowd. ... The Indians lost their last four regular season games, settling for third in the Ivy League behind Brown and Cornell. ... Then in the first round of the Eastern College Athletic Conference championship on March 9 Dartmouth was paired with B.C. at the latter's rink and lost 5-3. ... The Eagles came out flying, establishing a 5-0 lead by the second period. ... Dartmouth made a late rally, similar to its effort in the first B.C. game when it made up three goals to tie before losing 9-8 in overtime, but it just didn't have enough scoring punch with Mathews obviously below par. ... The Edina, Minn., junior had scored 42 points in 17 games before his injury. ... He added only four more points in the final six starts. ... Mathews still was named to the UPI All-New England team with goalie Budge Gere of Clinton, N. Y., on the 2nd team. ... None of the Big Green was picked for the first All-Ivy League team by the loop coaches. ... But Mathews and defenseman Charlie Stuart of Princeton, N. J., were on the second team. ... Gere, defenseman Chuck Zeh of Duluth, Minn., and forward Chip Hayes of Ann Arbor won honorable mention. ... Dartmouth, 14-4 before Mathews' injury, wound up 14-9.

The basketball team closed with a 4-21 record but had one moment of glory on March 3 when it defeated Brown, 84-70. ... This victory, brought about largely by junior Chris Kinum who had been on probation to that point, ended the Ivy's longest losing streak — 33 straight — and gave cheer for next season when Kinum and all the talented sophomores will be back. ... Sophomore Pete Dunlop of Westwood, N. J., led the team in scoring with another sophomore, 6-7 Gunnar Malm of Naperville, Ill., as top rebounder.

Tom Hoober, a butterfly-swimming junior from Lancaster, Pa., was elected captain of the swimming team which broke even on the season. ... Recordbreakers included sophomore John Van Orden of Albany, N. Y., who took a fifth in the 1650-yard freestyle event in the Eastern championships, and freshman Brad Lindeblad of Hollywood, Fla., who broke every Dartmouth freestyle record from the 50- to the 500-yard distance last winter. ... Sophomore pole vaulter Harris Wagenseil of Palos Verdes, Calif., brought a prediction of "being a 15-foot vaulter before graduation" from assistant coach Bruce Hescock after he placed fourth in the Heptagonals with a 14-foot effort. ... New wrestling captain is John Keane '66 of Huntington, N. Y., who took a third place in the New England championships at 152 pounds.

Dartmouth lost its Eastern skiing title to Middlebury for the first time in four years as the Indians just could not cope with slushy conditions and the Panthers' Alpine strength in the championship meet. ... After staying within one point of Middlebury in the opening downhill event, Dartmouth's slalom skiers ran into a series of mishaps on the second run in the afternoon and dropped 6.1 points behind .A week before the Green Nordic skiers had been able to close this gap but Middlebury refused to fold in the championship stretch run. ... In fact, the Panthers added points in the concluding cross-country race. ... Although sophomore Jim Speck of Bethesda, Md., did manage to win the Eastern jumping championship, with Sel Hannah of Franconia and Captain Dick Durrance of Aspen coming in fourth and fifth. ... Coach Al Merrill planned to enter a full team in the NCAA championships at Crystal Mountain, Wash., March 25-27. ... Freshman skiing captain was versatile Bill Kendall of Auburn, Me.

A slalom race of a different sort was held by the Ledyard Canoe Club on March 6 in the new Dartmouth pool. ... This was an indoor kayak race. ... There were 12 gates on the course and one of the tricks required was a double Eskimo roll in which the boat is rolled completely over. ... Winner was sophomore Jon Knight of Cleveland, who was second in last year's Eastern championships and is planning to compete in the world championships this summer in Austria.

A final roundup of freshman results during the winter season shows: basketball 10-9, hockey 5-12 and one tie, squash 0-8, swimming 8-1, track 5-3, and wrestling 1-1.

Spring Schedules

BASEBALL — April 16, Columbia at New York; 17, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; 24, Cornell at Ithaca; 28, Harvard at Cambridge; May 1, Brown at Providence; 4, Williams; 6, Yale; 8, Boston College; 12. Princeton; 13, St. Michael's at Winooski; 15, Navy; 20, New Hampshire at Portsmouth; 22, Army; 25, New Hampshire at Concord; 27, Holy Cross at Worcester; 29, Amherst at Amherst; June 2, Holy Cross.

TRACK — April 23-24, Perm Relays at Philadelphia; 28, Boston University; May 1, Harvard at Cambridge; 5, Holy Cross; 8, Brown at Providence; 15, Heptagonals at New Haven; 19, Springfield; 28-29, Intercollegiates at Rutgers.

LACROSSE - April 21, Holy Cross at Worcester; 24, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia; 28, Cornell; May 1, Yale; 8, Harvard; 12, Brown; 15, Princeton at Princeton; 19, New Hampshire at Durham; 22, U. of Massa- chusetts; 25, Williams.

TENNIS — April 24, Cornell at Ithaca; 28, Pennsylvania; 30, Columbia at New York; May 1, Yale at New Haven; 5, Harvard at Cambridge; 6, M.I.T.; 8, Amherst; 10, Middlebury at Middlebury; 12, Brown; 14-15. N. E. Intercollegiates at Cambridge; 17, Navy; 19, Princeton; 21, Army; 24, Williams. GOLF - April 24, Middlebury at Middlebury; 29, Boston College and Brandeis at Boston; 30, Amherst and Holy Cross at Amherst; May 1, Army at West Point; 8-10, Eastern Intercollegiates at Yale; 12, Harvard at Cambridge; 15, Brown; 19, Williams at Williamstown; 22, Springfield.

CREW — Heavyweight: April 17, Atalanta Cup (Brown, B.U., Dartmouth) at Providence; 24, Packard Cup (Syracuse, Dartmouth) at Hanover; May 1. Bill Cup (B.U., Rutgers, Dartmouth) at Boston; 8, Cochrane Cup (M.I.T., Syracuse, Wisconsin, Dartmouth) at Boston; 15, EARC Sprint Championships at Worcester; June 19, IRA Championships at Syracuse.

Lightweight: April 17, Durand Cup (M.I.T., Yale, Dartmouth) at New Haven; 24, Biglin Cup (Harvard, Dartmouth) at Boston; May 8, Cornell at Ithaca; 15, EARC Sprint Championships at Worcester.

Leverone Field House, with its stunning Nervi ceiling of reinforced concrete units, shown with a track meet in progress.

Earl "Red" Blaik, Dartmouth's footballcoach from 1934 through 1940, being in-ducted into the Football Hall of Fame.Bart Cumming left, Ed Sullivan right.

The alumni hockey team for the annual clash, this year on February 27: (front Ito r) John Wadman '59, John Grocott '52, Mike Choukas '51, Bruce Mather '47,Warren Cook '67 (the "borrowed" goalie), Ralph Warburton '47, Ron MacKenzie'56, Jake Haertl 61; (back) Seaver Peters '54, Dave Chapin '58, Ab Oakes '56,Gordie Russell '55, Coach Eddie Jeremiah '30, Warren Mansur '55, Dan Goggin'57, and Chet Gale '55. The alumni lost, but gave the varsity a tough battle.