This Day in Dartmouth History: May 10
5/10/2020 2:00:00 PM | Baseball, Women's Lacrosse, Athletics
May 10, 1967 — Jim Shaw '67 no-hits Princeton in 2-1 victory for Baseball
At the mid-point of the 1967 season, the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League title was still very much up in the air, particularly with each team playing each other just once instead of a series for a nine-game conference season (Army and Navy were also in the league). Dartmouth was near the top of the standings with a 4-1 record, and this game against Princeton in Hanover would go a long way toward either team's pennant hopes.
Head coach Tony Lupien was ready with his best, senior southpaw Jim Shaw '67, who entered the game with a 6-1 record and sparkling 1.07 ERA over 50.1 innings with 41 strikeouts. And Shaw was at his best, not allowing a single base runner through the first six stanzas. Unfortunately, Tiger starter Mike Fremuth kept the Big Green off the board as well, leaving the game scoreless entering the seventh.
In the top of the seventh, a leadoff walk led Princeton to dropping down a bunt. The Dartmouth defense went for the force at second but failed to get the out with the batter reaching on a fielder's choice. After the first out allowed the runners to advance, Tiger captain Tom Peppler laid down a bunt as well with the throw to the plate coming too late for a 1-0 Tiger lead. Shaw stranded the remaining two runners on a strikeout and a fly to right, but the damage was done.
The Big Green did not despair, however, putting a rally together in the bottom half. Senior third baseman Paul Mikus '67 (2-for-4 on the day) and sophomore center fielder Terry Light (1-for-3) both singled and eventually scored on wild pitches to put the Big Green on top, 2-1.
Princeton threatened in the eighth by getting a man to second, but junior second baseman Gene Ryzewicz '68 pulled off a hidden-ball trick — the third successful one of the season — to pick the runner off and end the threat. In the ninth, an error put the tying run on with nobody out, but he was still there two batters later after a pair of force outs. Shaw then issued his third walk, pushing the tying run into scoring position, but the left-hander pumped a called third strike past the next Tiger hitter for his 10th punchout of the game, completing the no-hitter and the Big Green victory. Dartmouth would go on to win the EIBL with a 7-2 record, half a game ahead of Army and one ahead of the Tigers.
May 10, 2013 — Women's Lacrosse knocks off #19 Boston College, 11-8, in opening round of NCAA Tournament
Dartmouth's most recent Women's Lacrosse NCAA Tournament win came against Boston College in a 2013 first-round match-up played at Syracuse.
A mixture of youth and experience proved to be the right combination for the Big Green on this day as freshman Jaclyn Leto '16 and sophomore Sarah Byrne '15 posted career highs with four goals each, and junior goalkeeper Kristen Giovanniello '14 turned aside a season-high 12 shots from the Eagles in the game.
The start of the game was moved up nearly four hours with the threat of inclement weather in the area looming and the contest being played outdoors due to the Carrier Dome's scheduled hosting of Syracuse's graduation that weekend. That did little to change the gameday routine for the Big Green.
It was the first win in the NCAA Tournament in nearly seven years for the program, dating back to a 14-8 national semifinal victory over Notre Dame on May 26, 2006 that sent the Big Green to the title game against Northwestern. It remains the last win in the national postseason for Dartmouth as they would fall to the Orange in the next game and not play again in the NCAA Tournament until last season versus Colorado.
May 10, 1919 — John Murphy '19 tosses no-hitter against Harvard
After the loss of the 1917 baseball season due to the Great War, Dartmouth returned to the diamond in 1918 with a more abbreviated season (the Big Green played 34 games in 1915), posting a record of 8-8. John Murphy '19 served as the captain of that team, but he would make a bigger name for himself the following year as a senior in the eighth game of the season.
It had been three years since Dartmouth and Harvard squared off with the Crimson snapping a four-game skid against their New England neighbor in an 11-8 win. The Big Green were playing their third game in three days having been shut out by Boston College, 8-0, before hammering Tufts, 12-3. First-year head coach Jeff Tesreau, a former New York Giant pitcher who just finished his career in the big leagues the year before with a record of 119-72 and an ERA of 2.43 over seven seasons, sent Murphy to the mound to face the Harvard nine.
Murphy did not disappoint that day 101 years ago, twirling a no-hitter against the Crimson, the fourth for Dartmouth in the 20th century and fifth ever for the program. The bats gave Murphy plenty to work with as well, putting nine runs on the board in the 9-0 blanking of Harvard.
No details from the game have been unearthed as of yet, but his triumph was the first of seven consecutive wins over the Crimson — one every season through 1925. It would be the longest win streak in the series for the Big Green until the team won eight in a row in the 2010-12 seasons. After that streak was snapped, Dartmouth immediately embarked on a 15-game streak of success against Harvard in the 2012-16 season for 23 wins out of 24 contests.
