Word: squash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the standpoint of undergraduates no more suitable report could have been submitted than that which was made by the Committee of the Alumni on Athletics. A new baseball cage, a new boat house, a swimming pool, new squash courts, even a skating rink, a golf course, and a polo field have been recommended. Student opinion has long urged these objects as real needs. Several of them have been promised repeatedly, and the swimming pool for one seems to have received all but the official sanction of the Corporation. Now that the Alumni as represented by their committee have taken...
...baseball cage, a new boat house, a swimming pool, new squash courts, a skating rink, a golf course and a polo field, are all suggested by the committee as necessary additions to the University athletic plant. In the beginning of the report the Committee expresses its complete approval of the present attention paid by the University to athletics, and expresses sympathy with the statement of Professor Mendell of Yale that "athletics make education safe for the Yale undergraduates...
...most surprising revelations is the large number of Seniors who pronounce swimming to be their favorite sport. Nine per cent of the class declared for swimming. This figure, ranking swimming as fourth, is greater than baseball, track, rowing, basketball, or squash. Trailing swimming by one per cent, squash holds fifth place, closely followed by baseball with seven per cent, track six, and rowing four...
...summary of winter events follows: Squash Gore, 5 Standish 3 Smith 1 Wrestling Standish. 5 Gore 3 Smith 1 Track Smith 5 Gore 3 Standish 1 Handball Smith 5 Gore 3 Standish 1 Basketball Gore 8 Standish 7 Smith 3 Numeriais Gore 5 Standish 3 Smith...
...Committee also decided at its meeting not to award medals to the members of the University squash team for winning the national championship as was suggested by the Student Council. The reason given for not passing upon the suggestion of the Council was that the team had already been rewarded individually by the National Squash Racquets Association...