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GREEN JOTTINGS

JUNE 1972 JACK DEGANGE
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GREEN JOTTINGS
JUNE 1972 JACK DEGANGE

Four seniors have earned the outstanding awards presented annually for achievement in athletics at Dartmouth.

Tom Byron from Delmar, N. Y., captain of track and the Dartmouth record holder in the decathlon, has won the Kenneth Archibald Athletic Prize as the senior judged to be the best allround athlete in his class and who has achieved high academic standing.

Wayne Young, co-captain of football and an All-Ivy linebacker as well as a regular catcher-first baseman in baseball, has won the Alfred E. Watson Trophy as the outstanding athlete of the year. He's from Tarrytown, N. Y.

The Dartmouth Cup, awarded by the undergraduate newspaper to the senior athlete who on and off the field reflects the greatest credit to the College, has been presented to Stuart Simms, cocaptain and fullback in football from Baltimore, Md.

Quarterback Bill Pollock from Nacogdoches, Texas, won the Timothy Wright Ellis Memorial Award for exemplifying the qualities of personality, friendliness, loyalty and perseverance that were the mark of the late Tim Ellis '55.

Led by Bill Ballard and Captain Denny Warner, Dartmouth's rifle team won the Ivy League championship, edging Cornell, 1224-1221. Ballard had the top individual score.

Dartmouth's sailing team placed sixth in the Mosbacher Trophy regatta for the Ivy League championship. Princeton won the Mosbacher Trophy.

Edward Cottrell, a successful coach at Austin High School in Chicago, has been named assistant basketball coach, and Serge Deßari, an outstanding player at Assumption College and assistant coach at Fairfield University for the past year, is the new freshman basketball coach at Dartmouth.

The Tirrell Physical Improvement Prize for 1972 has been awarded to Michael Trolle '75 from New Canaan, Conn., for proficiency in tennis, squash, and advanced skiing.

"Snoopy" pins and tie tacks, a souvenir of Dartmouth's 1971 Ivy League co-championship football season, are available for sale ($3 apiece) by contacting the Physical Education Office, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H. 03755.

Dartmouth's rowing course on the Connecticut River will be the site for selection of the eight-oared crew and four-with-coxswain crew that will represent the United States in the Olympic Games at Munich in late August.

More than 40 oarsmen and coxswains will train on the Connecticut River from June 9-July 3 as the United States adopts a new approach for selection of the Olympic crew. Harvard Coach Harry Parker is the U. S. Olympic crew coach and Dartmouth coach Peter Gardner is one of his three assistants.

A large field of 65 undergraduate and alumni skiers were at Mt. Washington April22 for the Dartmouth-Harvard Slalom, won by the Green in cumulative time.