"We must have won fifteen or twenty trophies so far," Professor Herbert L. James, debate coach, noted in commenting on the current season. The Dartmouth teams have won many of the major tournaments they have entered and have placed high in most others not won, including Dartmouth's own Invitational Tournament.
In the Hanover competition the home forces had to settle for a spot in the octa-finals (where Southern California prevailed) and to watch Ohio State win over the University of Redlands for the top laurels. A total of 102 teams from 70 institutions, representing 25 different states, competed in the Dartmouth event.
Earlier, however, the Dartmouth team of Thomas J. Brewer '68 of Grandville, Mich., and John M. Isaacson '68 of Auburn, Maine, had won out over 45 other schools at the Miami Invitational Tournament, and a freshman team of Donald C. Pogue of Rockford, Ill., and James B. Kenney III of Denver, Colo., had captured the Marshall-Wythe Debate Tournament as tops at the William and Mary competition.
The Big Green debaters also garnered a third spot at the Miami tournament, a third at St. John's University, and high rankings in the Harvard, Columbia, and Northwestern University tournaments.