SOCCER

The Big Green soccer team showed tremendous improvement over a year ago as the sophomore-dominated booters took a 4-4-2 record into the finale with Penn. It wasn't until the next-to-last game, a 4-1 setback at Cornell, that Dartmouth was eliminated from the Ivy League race.

Highlights of the soccer campaign were a pair of victories over Princeton (3-1) and Columbia (2-1) and a 4-4 tie with Harvard. Losses to highly regarded Brown, the champion for the past four seasons, and to Yale and Cornell were not without a stiff battle. The Indians took a 2-1 halftime lead over Brown before the Bruins stormed back with five goals in the second half.

Dave Irwin, a junior from Bloomfield, N. J., took a two-point scoring lead into the final game. The swift forward had five goals and as many assists for ten points to lead sophomore Randy Quayle from Bronxville, N. Y., who had four goals and four assists.

"We've had a fresh type of leadership in Pete Linton," said Coach Whitey Burnham of his junior captain from Philadelphia. "Combined with a group of sophomores who have retained the spirit generated in their 7-1 freshman season, I think we've begun to play an exciting brand of soccer."