Dartmouth Relays feature star athletes
Big Green track and field team makes strong debut, prepares for dual-meet competition
Big Green track and field team makes strong debut, prepares for dual-meet competition
Defeats Princeton for first time in five years, 64-56
The Dartmouth women's basketball team took to the road this weekend, playing the Princeton Tigers and the University of Pennsylvania Quakers.
The men's ice hockey team had a disappointing weekend, picking up only one of a possible four points against ECAC rivals Princeton and Yale.
While most Dartmouth students were just beginning to think about returning to Hanover for the Winter term, the women's ice hockey team was already back and in action. The team entered the new year with a 5-0-2 record.
This weekend promises to be perhaps the most exciting one of the year for Dartmouth hoops fans. Perennial Ivy powerhouse Princeton pays a visit to Leede Arena this Friday and 24 hours after that, the Big Green men face juggernaut Penn, ranked 25th in the latest Associated Press poll. If it beats Harvard on Friday, Penn will be gunning for a record 13th straight Ivy League victory.
Since 1924, Dartmouth alumni have competed in each of the Olympic games and most of them began their successful careers as a part of the Dartmouth ski team. Last season was a challenging one for the Big Green.
Most preseason polls said that the Dartmouth men's hockey team would finish either last or next to last in the ECAC.
As students headed home after finals, the Dartmouth women's swimming team prepared to put a cap on a successful fall.
The men's basketball team finished its vacation schedule with an 82-70 loss to the Vermont Catamounts Monday night in Burlington. After falling behind by as many as 16 points and fighting back several times, the Big Green took a 48-46 lead with 13 minutes to play. But it was all Vermont from there, as the Catamounts dominated the remaining minutes. "Once we got ahead we stopped doing what got us there.
Monday was a day full of surprises for many at the NCAA Division I cross country championship at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. The Dartmouth men's team had hoped at the IC4A championship to avenge a loss suffered a week earlier to number one ranked Georgetown.
Every year since Coach Betsy Wilson took charge of the women's swim team five years ago, the Big Green have improved their record.
It has been a nightmare of a football season for the Big Green Gridders. A year ago, they were at the top of their game, coming off three consecutive Ivy League titles and still led by Ivy League superstar now turned NFL quarterback Jay Fiedler '94. They slipped just slightly, losing a share of the title to the University of Pennsylvania in the final week of the season, but with the best overall record in the league's history to their name, there was no snickering behind the Dartmouth football players' backs. Then Fiedler, sometimes called Dartmouth's "heart and soul," and a number of other crucial seniors graduated, ending a dynasty and introducing uncertainty into the team's future. A period of transition and small-scale rebuilding was inevitable, but with a returning class of senior standouts on defense such as Josh Bloom, Hunter Buckner, Brian White and Chris Boran, along with powerful running back Pete Oberle '96 and experienced receivers David Shearer '95 and Andre Grant '95, no one expected Dartmouth to miss a beat. Instead, Dartmouth experienced something along the lines of a massive heart attack, finishing for the first time ever at the bottom of the Ivy League with a record of 2-5 and 4-6 overall. With the season now over, one can only ask what went wrong.
After three years of winless seasons in the Ivy League, the men's swimming team was determined to change tradition this year.
With just one week remaining until the start of its official season, the women's basketball team hosted Sporitelna Bratislava from Slovakia on Saturday.
It was the best of times and the worst of times for the men's hockey team this weekend in its home-and-home series against ECAC rival University of Vermont. The Big Green turned in their most thrilling win of the season with a 6-5 overtime victory over the Catamounts Friday night, but were blown out on Saturday night 10-1 for their first loss of the season. Going into the two-game set, the Big Green had good reason to expect a tough fight.
In a heartbreaking end to a long and difficult season, the Big Green failed to convert numerous opportunities and fell to the Princeton Tigers 20-13 Saturday. With the loss, Dartmouth dropped to 4-6 overall and 2-5 in the Ivy League, ending the year in last place for the first time since 1956.
The women's ice hockey team continued its scoring assault on its opponents as it dominated the Boston College Eagles 5-1 at Thompson Arena Wednesday. In their first five games of the season, the Big Green have outscored their opposition by a margin of 22 goals to seven.
After last year's frustrating 5-21-1 record, the men's hockey team is turning over a new leaf in its 1994-95 season. The Big Green kicked off this year with an exhibition game against Williams College on Nov.
While the women's volleyball team's record this season may not seem successful, it does not reflect the effort and enthusiasm these women put into the first fully-funded varsity season of volleyball. The team ended the season with a 2-18 record overall, beating the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore in its first match and Wagner College in the Harvard Tournament two weekends ago. In the Harvard tournament, the Big Green won one of the four matches they played, beating Wagner 3-2 and losing to Harvard 0-3, University of Vermont 1-3 and University of Hartford 0-3. Dartmouth lost their first match to the host, Harvard, in three games, 0-15, 5-15 and 8-15.