Key Men Loss on Court and Ice Leaves Dartmouth Shaky

This is the third of a series of articles on winter sports prospects of members of the Eastern intercollegiate Leagues.

NEW YORK, Jan. 7--Defending champion in two of the three major winter sports on its athletic program and with a now coach in the third, Dartmouth faces a multitude of doubts as to its ability to repeat in basketball and hockey in which it won league titles a year ago, but feels that its swimming team, at least, will be greatly improved.

In basketball the Big Green lost four key men from the 1939 championship team--Bob Macleod Joe Cottone, Joe Batchelder, and Roger Dudis. The sextet will miss eight men, including its high scorers, Dave Walsh and Bud Foster, and its outstanding goalie, Wes Goding, from what Ed Jeremiah, coach, calls the greatest hockey unit ever to graduate from Dartmouth. The swimmers also lost several key men, including Julian Armstrong, best free-styler on the squad, Irving Stein and Bob Cushman.

Broberg Back

For all three teams, however, there are compensations. The basketeers, for example, still have famed Gus Broberg, on his record the greatest scorer ever produced in the thirty-seven-year-old Eastern Intercollegiate League. They also have canny Ossie Cowles as coach and Cowles has won two championships and placed second in another in the three years he has been at Hanover.

The hockey team will have Dan Sullivan back and Jeremiah calls him the outstanding hockey player in the East, if not the country. And the swimmers, in their first year under Karl Michael, who came from Yale to succeed Sidney Hazelton, will have better balance and the aid of the best Freshman squad in many years.

Other Hoopmen

The quintet, of course, will have a good supporting cast for Broberg. Among its veterans will be Vincent Else, currently handicapped by a knee injury but still capable of providing an interesting forty minutes for the opposition; Jim Sullivan, a 6 foot 3 inch center, and Captain Bob White, 6.2, a guard. These three and Broberg have been used on the starting team thus far, and the fifth place has been divided by two Sophomores, Bill Parmer, 6.1, and Charles Pearson, 6.2, also center on the football team.

Jeremiah's big problem right now is to find a goalie to replace Goding, named on the all-league team for two years. He hasn't been able to get much of a line on his candidates because lack of ice has hampered Dartmouth's practice. But he will have Sullivan returning, Marl Cross, a veteran defense man who has been shifted to forward, and Fred Maloon and Pete Keir, a Junior, also counted on. Bob Campbell and Ed Hughes, both Juniors, currently form the defense duo. Dartmouth, in its two years under Jeremiah, has won the Quadrangular League title twice, each time by winning all six of its games.

Better Swimmers

Coming up to the Varsity from the Freshman swimming team of 1939 will be several competitors who may make Dartmouth a little tougher this year. Rollo Wilhelmy and Jack Storrs, in the middle distances; Jim O'Mara, holder of the college's Freshman back stroke record; George Liskow and Bill Stegner in the sprints; and Bob Carney in the dive, look exceptionally promising.