Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dueling is no longer a college custom even at Heidelberg, but at tiny Blue Ridge College in New Windsor, Md., Freshmen George Deaton and George List stole into the college gymnasium one dawn last week, began to make grim preparations. While the two freshmen stripped to the waist, companions found a pair of French fencing épées, pulled off the protective tips, sterilized the points. Business: a duel. Challenger: Freshman List. Prize: the favor of a blonde Blue Ridge co-ed known as "Little Miss America...
...first match of the afternoon saw the two captains meeting to decide and old duel at least for the present, as Capt. Foshay of the Tigers gained a decision over Captain Harvey Ross of the Crimson team in the overtime. Ross seemed in have the advantage for the first part of the match, but Foshay kept escaping from Ross with a smoothly working reverse switch. Finally in the overtime of what seemed to be an impossible bout to decide, Foshay received the nod from the referee an the wrestler who showed the greatest aggressiveness...
...himself. This is supported by the fact that he only lost one decision and a fall during the entire season, while he was unable to forge on past the first round of the Easterns. Then again Froshay may have bolstered himself sufficiently in the last match to clinch the duel. At all events the match promises to be close...
...HENRY DUEL...
Texas consented 5-to-3 to kill a clause from its 1876 Constitution requiring Governors and other State officeholders to swear they have never fought a duel...