With a new coach - Quentin P. Currie, who also coaches the freshman football line - and a rash of new wrestlers, the team was picking up experience as opponents were gaining victories.
The sole Dartmouth winner in the first two meets was Jonas Johnson '69 of Jamestown, N. Y., who won heavyweight division matches with pins against Coast Guard Academy and Brown.
Three of Dartmouth's modern football coaches at the Football Hall of Fame dinnerin New York in December. L to r, Tuss McLaughry, coach for 12 years, 1941-42and 1945-54; Earl Blaik, coach for seven years, 1934-40; and Bob Blackman, whosecurrent regime began 12 years ago in 1955. McLaughry and Blaik have both beenelected to the Hall of Fame, and two earlier Big Green coaches, Frank Cavanaughand Clarence Spears, have also been honored.