OTHER WINTER SPORTS

As soon as Dartmouth had ripped Princeton's swimmers, 73-40, in early December, Ron Keenhold received a call from Don Gambril, his coaching confrere at Harvard.

"This really throws the Eastern League up for grabs," said Gambril, already plotting the demise of Keenhold's corps.

"We figured they'd be waiting for us and they were," is all Keenhold could say after taking the Green to Cambridge in early January. Harvard, using times that weren't as good as those which Dartmouth produced against Princeton, took advantage of their own peaking process to trim the Green, 69-44.

"We simply weren't as sharp as we'd been against Princeton and I didn't expect that we would be," said Keenhold. A week later, however, the sharpness began to reappear as Dartmouth' visited Navy.

The Middies' pool was the scene of a 7142 Dartmouth win, a victory that was impressive because a couple of swimmers, particularly junior Mark Ransom, who showed excellent times in winning the 200 and 500-yard freestyle events, demonstrated the improved depth available on this team.

Ransom, along with freshmen Paul Cane and Howard Coye, were the big guns against Navy. Cane won both the breaststroke and individual medley while Cane led LeMoal (the Dartmouth recordholder) in the 1000 freestyle.

The indoor track season has barely begun but the arrival of a couple of freshman sprinters provides Coach Ken Weinbel with manpower in an event that has been a weak link in recent years.

Rich Berryman and Greg Payne are the frosh speedsters. Berryman placed third to Dr. Delano Meriwether in the USTFF's mammoth meet in Leverone Field House in early January and then won the 60-yard dash (with Payne second) during a triangular win over Colgate and Bates. Both have been timed in 6.4 seconds which is well off any record but a significant start.

In addition, the Green has a capable 600-yard performer in Richard Nichols, a freshman record-breaker with a time of 1:13 flat in the triangular meet. And in junior Peter O'Malley, Weinbel has a middle-distance standout who is on the brink of taking the Dartmouth record in the 1000.

Jerry Berndt directed Dartmouth's wrestlers to a 10-3 record last year and, despite a 30-14 loss to Rhode Island in the opening match, the Green coach expects this team to be better.

He seems to know what he's talking about because Dartmouth bounced back to take impressive wins over New Hampshire (37-9) and Brown (42-9).

Captain Steve Morelli and junior Chuck Estin are the key veterans while freshmen Reggie Williams (the frosh football cocaptain), John Burke, and Rich Clark are also contributing to the success.

In squash, the unfilled picture frame in John Kenfield's office will have to remain Vacant for at least another year.

It's a frame for the picture of the first Dartmouth squash team to defeat Yale. Despite the fact that five matches went the full five-game limit, Dartmouth still couldn't come up with the win that would end the Eli domination.

The Green is 2-2 and has a capable group of young players moving into the picture. While Captain Doug Donohue is still the lead performer, freshmen Scott McCallister and Dave Lockard are working at the third and seventh positions. They, along with Sandy Tierney and Will Hendren (both sophomores), produced the winning matches at Yale and demonstrated the broader base of talent that Kenfield is developing.

After early wins over Plymouth State and Penn, Dartmouth's gymnastics team has fallen to Cornell (the defending Ivy League champ) and New Hampshire. Mike Pancoe, a junior, continues to be the Green's outstanding competitor and is unbeaten on the still rings.

While the team schedule is still a month away, Dartmouth's skiers have produced some early success under new head coach Jim Page.

A pair of sophomores—Chris Nice and Doug Peterson—used a winning performance along with freshman Ed Waters in the Hanover Relays to earn berths on the Eastern cross-country team. Nice, Peterson and Waters (who has been tabbed as an alternate on the Eastern squad) won the 3×10 kilometer racing at Hanover Country Club over 39 teams, including teams that included men from the U. S. Olympic team and the Eastern team.

Freshmen Rich Berry (right) and Greg Payne (center) are giving the Dartmouth trackteam new strength in the sprint events. (Photo by Rusty Martin '68.)