1947

The class of 1947 was blessed with many Ail-American and 1948 Olympic hockey team members; Bruce Cunliffe Bruce Mather, and Ralph Warburton. More accolades were heaped upon the Dartmouth ladies this year in Nagano, Japan, when for the first time in the history of the Winter Olympics, women's hockey was recognized as an Olympic sport.

Not everybody looks good in a red, white, and blue Uncle Sam hat, but Sarah Tueting does! She made an entrance carrying a bouquet of flowers and modeling a floppy-topped hat made of foam, bestowed by an older brother. They go very well with her gold medal. As the announcer said, "There she goes, Ms. America."

As Mike Downey of The New York Times put it so well: "Coming soon to a Wheaties box near you, Sarah Tueting. Teeting ' is how you pronounce it. 'Teeter' to her friends. A cello-playing Dartmouth student who wants to be a doctor, like her mother. Teeter was six when she went out on Halloween in her hometown of Winnetka, III., dressed as a hockey goalie.

"She is now 21, and the goalie won America and the gold after a 3-1 victory over Canada in the inaugural Olympic women's hockey tournament. Most winners of the 'gold' drape themselves in the American flag.

"Now, with an effort every bit as inspired, American women who were schoolgirls just the day before yesterday have come through the arena known in Nagano as Big Hat. And now, a big hat is what their goalie is wearing. 'USA! USA! USA!' sing the first winners of ice hockey's Winter Olympics for women to the tune of John Philip Souda's 'Stars and Stripes Forever.'

"Teeter stands in the middle of the group singing the loudest. 'USA! USA! USA! USA-A-AY!' It was one of the finest hours in Dartmouth's participation in history.

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