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Coach Leslabay has called for more candidates for the University bayonet team. Last Monday members of the University were first called out for this squad, but only 12 reported. There are ample facilities in the Randolph Gymnasium to handle a much larger squad. This will insure the development of a strong University team. Practice is held regularly three times a week, on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays, at 3 o'clock...
Every attempt to combine military training with sports deserves encouragement. At present, two distinct movements are being started to accomplish this bayonet combat and rifle practice. In both of these the keenness of athletic competition can be used to further development in the arts of war. Recreation and exercise are by no means checked, but rather turned in such a direction as to be more useful at the present time. As most of us must learn before long how to handle a bayonet, we can have no better chance to become practiced in the art than now. Not only...
...anyone an expert, but they develop a true eye, a steady hand and a reliable trigger-squeeze. Shooting Boches requires more skill than can be acquired on Soldiers Field, yet beginners may learn the rudiments, and experienced marksmen may improve their aim. The student who practises with rifle or bayonet furthers his own military prospects, and, at the same time, obtains exercise and recreation...
Practice will be held in the fencing room of the Randolph Gymnasium tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, and regularly three times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the same hour. Coach Leslabay, who had full charge of bayonet instruction in the R. O. T. C., will be present at all practices to coach the men. Negotiations will be made with Yale and other colleges to arrange for bayonet meets...
...first meeting of candidates for the bayonet team held yesterday in the Randolph Gymnasium, five Freshmen and eight upper-classmen reported. This number is much smaller than was expected, but there will be an opportunity for more to report at the first practice...