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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Russell '16, National duellingswords champion, will speak to 1923 today at their regular Hygiene section in the New Lecture Hall at 2.30 o'clock. The talk will deal with the advantages of fencing and the plans for the season. Director Geer in co-operation with the University fencing management, expects to form a Freshman fencing squad, from which dormitory teams will be chosen, to compete for the inter-dormitory championship. Coach Danguay of the University squad will coach the Freshmen, who will be divided into two squad, meeting at 1.45 to 2.45 o'clock and 2.45 to 3.45 o'clock...
...Williams was captain of one of the most successful tennis teams the University ever had. He won the Inter-collegiates in 1915, and has been twice National singles champion, Mr. Williams is the second former University tennis captain to favor making tennis a major sport, N. W. Niles '09 having expressed the same opinion in the CRIMSON last spring...
Tennis has grown tremendously in popularity during the last decade. From a despised, so-called "effeminate" game, it has emerged as one of the great sports of the nation. Under the efficient management of the National Lawn Tennis Association, every club, every section has its tournament and its champion. Eleven thousand people witnessed the finals of the National Championship at Forest Hills, New York...
...game on leaving," said Mr. Niles. "In the case of tennis, which is an individual's sport, the player will keep it up, and frequently reaches his highest standing of play after graduation, as in the case of R. N. Williams '16, former University captain, who became national champion after graduating...
...games are taking on the aspect of an Olympic meet, with every allied nation presenting a notable array of stars. The American Expeditionary Force organization numbers among its athletes such well-known track men as Lieut. Harry Worthington of Dartmouth, three times national and intercollegiate broad jump champion; Pat Ryan, holder of five world's records in the hammer-throw; F. C. Thompson, all-round athletic champion of the A. A. U.; and Lieut. P. R. Withington '12, former University track captain and two-mile champion...