Word: pennsylvania
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Although the University will not officially send a team to compete in the Pennsylvania relay carnival on Friday and Saturday, five members of the track team have entered the games and will probably leave for Philadelphia tomorrow. Captain E. A. Teschner '17 and W. Moore '18 will run in the 100-yard dash, and W. H. Meanix '18 is entered in the 440-yard hurdles. W. S. Blanchard '17 will compete in the weight events and C. S. Babbitt '18 in the pole-vault. No relay team will be entered, as has been the custom, and the men will...
With the securing of second place in the intercollegiate championship meet, the University fencing team concluded one of the most successful seasons it has had in past years. Victories were won over Springfield Y. M. C. A. College, Bowdoin, Pennsylvania and Columbia, while the only defeat in a dual match was suffered in the meet with Yale. Yale was later defeated in the intercollegiate meet...
...past season appears the more successful in comparison with last year's record. In 1915-16 the University lost to both the Springfield College and Pennsylvania swordsmen, and finished in fifth place in the intercollegiate meet. The tournament with Yale last year was lost by a much larger score, despite the absence of Captain W. H. Russell '18 in the match at New Haven this year. Throughout every contest on their schedule the University team displayed a more finished brand of fencing than has been the case in past seasons...
...recent action of the athletic committee, which provided that if a war resolution were adopted prior to April 7, all athletic contests should cease on that date. Likewise, at a recent meeting in New York City of the representatives of various colleges at the invitation of the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Cornell made it known that their athletic activities were...
...schedules in spite of the early graduation of the senior class, made necessary by the declaration of war. The men in the lower classes of these institutions are not allowed to leave them to take part in military service, and consequently athletic competition will be encouraged. The authorities at Pennsylvania have decided that participation in intercollegiate sports will not be abandoned there...