Men's golf gears up for spring

Having lost only one player to graduation, men's golf coach Bill Johnson looks to a good season with a young but experienced squad. Success has been a hallmark of Johnson's 19-year tenure at the helm of the golf team. Only the third coach since the sport was established at Dartmouth in 1905, he has compiled an overall record of 136 wins, 60 losses, and one tie. And during the past 17 seasons, the Big Green has been represented 15 times on either a team or an individual basis at the NCAA Championship.

Heading Johnson's 1986 slate is senior captain Rick Dreyer, winner of the New England District 1 Championship last spring. The team also features sophomore all-Ivy selection Larry Whittemore, juniors Gordon Cook and Randy Jacobus, promising freshman Rob Albright, and important depth with five other proven players. The team is setting its sights on a first-or second-place finish in the Ivy League, having finished ahead of Yale and Princeton, the only other Ivies to qualify in the quest for an ECAC Championship berth last fall. Dreyer, who represented Dartmouth at last year's NCAA Championship, is also hoping to upset the University of Hartford, last year's District 1 team representative, for Dartmouth's first team appearance since 1981.

Coach Johnson, also director of golf at the Hanover Country Club, has introduced many innovative teaching methods since coming to Dartmouth. His instruction to both varsity golfers and Country Club members includes use of videotape, graphcheck sequence photography, and the College's computer system to give golfers improved understanding of the game while bettering physical skills.

Sophomore hurler Mike Remlinger, shown here in action last year, and his teammates gotthe 1986 season off to its best start since 1907 - with a 5-0 record in the first five gamesof their spring trip. And the overall southern tour record of 6-3 was the baseball team'sbest since 1975, when the Big Green also tallied a 6-3 mark.