WITH THE BIG GREEN TEAMS

WIN or lose, Dartmouth teams are always interesting because of the personalities and backgrounds of the boys involved.

An athletic squad at Hanover is composed of players from every region of the nation. The most interesting man on the baseball team may be merely the firstbase coach. Or in golf the number six player.

Here are random sketches of some Dartmouth athletes on the current spring scene plus coaches' quotes and reviews of action to date.

Roy Benson, distance runner on the track team, is 23 years old, looks closer to 30 but is only a sophomore academically. "For two and one-half years my major hobby was collecting the daily 'Peanuts' comic strips," grins this balding runner from Stevens Point, Wisconsin. "I was a physical education instructor in the Coast Guard and it wasn't too intellectually stimulating."

Benson is one of the few students in Dartmouth history who dropped out for four years and then returned. He spent most of this time with the Coast Guard in Alameda, Calif., coaching and running with the Santa Clara Youth Village Club.

"Roy is a good, solid runner, placing third in the National Junior AAU 880 two years ago. He also has the maturity to help the team in an emergency," says Coach Ellie Noyes.

"For instance, in our final meet this winter with Yale we were in a bind going into the mile relay. Injuries had eliminated a couple of our quarter-milers and another boy had to leave for a job interview. Ten minutes before the race I went over to Benson, who already had run the 1000 and mile, and explained the situation to him. I asked him to run anchor, a tough, responsible assignment.

"Roy didn't panic a bit. He went out and ran a very respectable 53-second leg. In fact, I think we'd have pulled out a win in the event if we hadn't had some bad racing luck on an earlier leg."

Most of the track action this outdoor season is compressed into the month of May with the Heptagonal Games being at Yale May 15. Noyes believes his outdoor squad is stronger than last year's but still lacks the "quality depth" to be a factor in the Heps.

Sparkplug of the Big Green lacrosse team is senior goaltender Brian Walsh of Winchester, Mass., more familiarly known on campus as "Wah Wah."

There is nothing tranquil about this 5' 8" towhead in the Indian cage. When the opposition is moving the ball toward the Dartmouth end, Walsh directs the Green defense with continuous instructions. "Wah is like a quarterback or another coach out there," says Coach Whitey Burnham. "Just to hear his voice gives our team confidence and of course our guys know that he's the best goalie in the league."

Walsh, majoring in engineering-art and headed for graduate work in architecture, was named All-Ivy goalie last season. And this was an extreme tribute to a competitor who never had been in the nets until one year before.

"I was an attack man as a freshman," explains Walsh, "but it was plain even to me that I'd never make the varsity in that position. So at the beginning of my sophomore season I asked Whitey if I could have a shot at the goalie job. I wanted to stay active in the game by any means ... and this turned out to be the answer."

One of the factors making Walsh a fine goalie is his competitive spirit. "There really isn't much physical work in goal-tending. It's mostly mental. You have to concentrate on the ball every second despite what goes on in front of the cage," says Walsh. He is worn out emotionally after a tough game and is not an easy loser. "We give him a little time to cool out after a tough one," admits a teammate.

The Indian stickmen lost both of their regulation games with Virginia and Baltimore down south but looked promising in scrimmage victories. "We might be a little stronger on offense than I anticipated," admitted Burnham. "Our first midfield of Bruce McKissock (Wynnewood, Pa.), Jim Cooper (Rochester, Minn.) and Rick Monahon (Basking Ridge, N. J.) has looked very good. They should take some of the defensive pressure off our All-Ivy attackman Lee Mercer (Darien, Conn.)."

Dartmouth completes its league schedule by May 15 with all six games in a three-week span. Football captain and potent defenseman Tom Clarke already has been lost for the campaign due to re-injuring the ankle he broke in the Yale Bowl and the team can't afford other injuries with such a concentrated schedule.

Pitching is the story of the Dartmouth baseball team and senior Ted Friel of Pittsfield, Mass., is the story of Dartmouth pitching.

Green Coaches in the Spring

Friel is a 6-2 righthander who has been exceptionally successful despite some unorthodox theories. As a sophomore he pitched "with a stiff arm motion and promptly was nicknamed Iron Mike because his style resembled the pitching machine in Leverone Field House. "I've had a sore arm off and on since my prep school days and it doesn't bother me when I throw like that," he explained.

Last year Friel, who is majoring in sociology-math, began to throw in more orthodox fashion but he tried to develop a palm-ball which gave Coach Tony Lupien fits. In batting Friel experimented with an open grip, splitting his hands on the bat about three inches. This didn't improve his batting average but he posted a fine 7-2 pitching record and an earned run average of 1.60.

"Ted is throwing better than ever this season," says catcher and captain Dick Horton of Reading, Mass. Horton has worked with Friel for three seasons and both played for manager Dave Gavitt '59 with Orleans in the Cape Cod League last summer. Pro scouts are watching both.

Coach Lupien's pre-season analysis of the team as a good pitching-no hitting unit held up on the southern swing. The pitching staff gave up only 11 earned runs in five games but Dartmouth scored only five runs itself, lost four games and tied one. Second baseman Mickey Beard (Newton, Mass.) was the only consistent hitter, batting .412 to rank 30th nationally in this department.

Golf coach Tommy Keane has a captain after his own style. He is senior Herb Carlson of New Britain, Conn., and, like Tommy, he believes in playing very fast. Keane in his 43rd season at Dartmouth still likes to carry his own golf bag and waste no time.

"Herb and I can go out and play a round in two and one-half hours," says Tommy. "I also like him because he's a very good match player. Herb gets a little erratic sometimes and spoils his medal score but you never can relax against him in a match. We go out and play a dime a hole. I'll find myself four up and then the first thing I know Herb will have cut that to all-even."

Carlson had a two-year varsity record of 13-6 entering this season and he was over .500 on the southern trip (Dartmouth posted a 3-2-1 mark despite atrocious weather and little practice).

Keane has two problems this spring. He has only two sophomores - Jack Ferraro of Rochester, N. Y., and John Van Dyke of Sioux City, lowa - who give evidence of helping the varsity and he lost four strong players from last year's team. The other problem is that Dartmouth has only three home matches out of 17 this season and in golf the home course advantage is even more pronounced than in basketball.

Tennis coach Wayne Van Voorhees came down with the dreaded ailment of the net game - a tennis elbow. But the 36-year-old Floridian who succeeded Red Hoehn last year simply switched over and learned how to play lefthanded.

Van Voorhees acquired the lefthanded touch so quickly that when one of his squad members beat him 6-0, 6-1 on a wet day in Alumni Gym recently, it "This was Gerry Dericks, another lefthander from Tulsa, Oklahoma," explained Van Voorhees. "This impressed me because a week before Gerry could only beat me 6-4, 8-6 and frankly I was playing much better the second time we met.

opened wide the coach's eyes.

"Gerry is an interesting story. He had missed a year of college and his eligibility should have ended last season. But then he suffered a bad ankle sprain and missed just about the entire season. So we applied for a waiver to the Ivy League and finally learned he was okayed on the day we left for our southern trip.

"Now last year Dericks was just a big hitter. But now ... with a reprieve from the league ... he really has worked on his game. He has developed good ground strokes; he rarely double faults on his serve, and his footwork is just about the best on the squad.

"He used to be bothered by little things. He was quick-tempered and he'd get mad at himself and stop thinking. Now he's developing a self discipline and some confidence and is playing a much steadier game. Gerry could be the biggest surprise on our team this season, although he's playing down at number seven right now."

Besides a lefthanded coach and lefthanded surprise package Dartmouth has a lefthanded sophomore playing in the number one spot. He is Chuck Hoeveler of Southport, Conn., who was undefeated with the freshmen last year.

"Chuck and his classmates have relegated Captain Tucky Mays (Greens Farms, Conn.) to number four in the early matches," admits Van Voorhees. "Hoeveler isn't big but he has a sound game, a difficult serve, and good concentration. Our team will be improved this season and even better next year since we have a good freshman crop."

Dartmouth's crew lost its opening regatta to Brown and B.U. but Coach Pete Gardner was not discouraged. "We knew the other two boats were well ahead of us in training. We had to spend a lot of time looking for the right combination and didn't have more than one week of rowing as a unit before the opener," he explained.

Key man in the Green varsity eight probably is junior Dan Williams, the 6-5, 212-pound football tackle. Dan surprised people in football last fall when he won a starting offensive job and now the Palo Alto, Calif., lad is doing the same thing in crew.

"We tried Dan at stroke for a while because he has a dominance, a leadership quality which you need there. Well, Captain Hugh Lade (Kirkland, Wash.) held him off and kept that seat so we moved Dan to number six oar. If he can smooth out his rough edges, it will make a big difference in our boat," says Gardner.

The heavies will compete in six regattas, winding up with the I.R.A. at Syracuse on June 19. The lightweights have five regattas, closing with the E.A.R.C. Sprints at Worcester May 15 where they finished fourth last year.

BIG GREEN BITS: During the three hockey seasons of 1961-63, Jack Phelan '28 and his wife Martha missed attending only three of 59 varsity games. The main reason, of course, was their son Jack '63, who captained the Indians as a senior. But even after his graduation the Phelans continued to follow Big Green skating fortunes and Martha Phelan knitted green, tasselled hats for all players to while away her time on the trips. Last year she passed away suddenly. Her husband has provided a Most Valuable Player Award in her memory.... And the first winner (by vote of his teammates) was junior defenseman Charlie Stuart of Princeton, N. J. April 21st, the night of the hockey banquet at which he received the trophy, was a memorable occasion for the Andover graduate and sociology major ... because Stuart also was named captain-elect of hockey and his father, a Princeton man, was on hand for the dinner.

New basketball captain is Neil Castaldo of Cranford, N. J., a 5' 9" pre-med student who was the only squad member under six feet tall this season. Castaldo injured his knee in the U.N.H. victory and missed the final 14 games.... Captain-elect in skiing is Brian Beattie, a junior pre-med student majoring in chemistry. Beattie is a versatile skier who was runner-up for skimeister honors in the N.C.A.C. championships at Washington last month (Dartmouth finished fourth in the team competition). Beattie also is a Dean's List student who won an academic citation in mathematics during the winter term.... Captain-elect of squash is history major Gary Jefferson of Winchester, Mass., an Exeter graduate.

Sophomore Jo Knight of Cleveland, Ohio, has jumped almost to the top of kayaking ranks in just two years of competition. Knight won the Eastern Downriver Championship on April 4 in Petersburg, W. Va. Last year as a novice he had won this title and set an Eastern Gate record. Knight has been named to the U.S. team for the world championships this summer in Spittal, Austria. ... Dartmouth's rugby team had a successful trip to Nassau over spring vacation, winning the cup in the Bahamas Rugby Festival. And then the Green squad showed its depth by sweeping three team matches with the Boston Rugby Club in the opening of the regular spring season.

SPORTS SCHEDULE

BASEBALL — 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 — 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 — May 1, Yale; 8, Harvard; 12, Brown; 15, Princeton at Princeton; 19, New Hampshire at Durham; 22, U. of Massachusetts; 25, Williams.

TENNIS — 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 — 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: 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: May 8, Cornell at Ithaca; 15, EARC Sprint Championships at Worcester.

Last Month's Results

BASEBALL: Southern Trip: North Carolina State tied, 0-0 (11 innings); Old Dominion won both games, 1-0, 3-1; Georgetown won, 7-4; five other games (North Carolina State, Randolph-Macon, Duke, Maryland, Seton Hall) cancelled by bad weather. Columbia 9, Dartmouth 2; Dartmouth 7, Penn 2.

LACROSSE: Virginia 12, Dartmouth 7; Baltimore 10, Dartmouth 4.

TENNIS: Ciemson 6, Dartmouth 3; Maryland 5, Dartmouth 4; matches with Randolph-Macon and Presbyterian cancelled by rain.

GOLF: Old Dominion 12½ Dartmouth 2½; Dartmouth 7, Old Dominion 6; Dartmouth 3Vi, Georgetown 3V4; Dartmouth 6, American University 1; Maryland 5, Dartmouth 5; Dartmouth 18½, Delaware 8½.

HEAVY CREW: Atalanta Cup — Varsity: (1) Brown 8:09, (2) B.U. 8:12, (3) Dartmouth 8:30; J.V.: (1) Brown 8:44.4, (2) B.U. 8:45.4, (3) Dartmouth 8:57; Freshman: (1) B.U. 8:33, (2) Dartmouth 8:45, (3) Brown 8:48.

LIGHT CREW: Durand Cup — Varsity: (1) M.I.T. 6:44.9, (2) Yale 6:49.9, (3) Dartmouth 6:51.1; J.V.: (1) M.I.T. 6:57.7, (2) Yale 7:02.9, (3) Dartmouth 7:06; Freshman: (1) M.I.T. 7:09.1, (2) Yale 7:14.4, (3) Dartmouth 7:21.9.

The Big Green infield this spring consists of Paul Mikus '67, third base; Bill Bower'66, shortstop; Mickey Beard '67, second base, and Bruce Smith '67, first base.

Coach Ellie Noyes '32 and his trackmencome out into the sun after earlier workin Leverone Field House (background).

Coach Whitey Burnham and CaptainJohn Case '65 of Harrisburg, Pa., take arest at lacrosse practice on Chase Field.

Coach Tony Lupien and his pitching ace,Ted Friel '65, who had 7 wins last year.

Football coach Bob Blackman gets intothe spring act too. Here with center BobKoury '65 and Jake Crouthamel '60 (rear)he tries out some offense innovations.