Dartmouth Drops 2 Colgate Games Due to Finances

Dartmouth early this week cancelled a hockey game and a basketball game with Colgate, but William C. McCarter, Director of Athletics at Hanover, asserted yesterday that the move was purely economic.

"The cancellations were in no way connected with the draft situation or with any kind of de-emphasis of athletics," he said. "We eliminated the games because travel expenses were too big." Dartmouth dropped wrestling as a varsity sport two years ago because of the financial drain.

McCarter said that the action will not affect Dartmouth's commitments to Harvard or to the Ivy League and he did not believe that the curtailment would extend to sports other than baseball or hockey. "We are cancelling some freshman games and three or four varsity games," he said.

Colgate had announced the cancellation of Monday's hockey game and the baseball game of May 21 at Dartmouth's request, attributing the move to Dartmouth's "necessary modifications" of its athletic program.