Ruggers on top

Over the past two years the men's rugby team has amassed an impressive record by capturing back-to-back Eastern Conference Championships. It was one of the final four teams eliminated from the National College Championships in 1987.

Rugby's status as a club sport has contributed to a growing popularity both on the playing field and off. "Club status allows us the freedom to run the team as we want," Jay Henry '88 explained. "The players pick the coaches and the practice times."

One rugger concedes, "The social aspect is important, too." Rugby is a sport renowned for its drinking and fraternization; Dartmouth is no exception. The squad underwrites the cost of keeping a keg on the sidelines (in blissful ignorance of College policy) for supporters at every home game. "It's a social event," points out one '88. "I've been going to rugby games for two years and I still don't know one thing about the sport ."Charlie Wheelan '88

Happy Birthday: President David T. McLaughlin lays a wreath at the grave of Eleazar Wheelock, the College's founder and first president. This memorial initiates the paying of similar tribute by the College, on the anniversaries of their births, to all former Dartmouth presidents who are locally interred.