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This year, for the first time in the history of the sport, the title of squash racquets champion of Massachusetts has gone to a University team. To be sure, the sport is not so very old in the college, or even in the state; but there always must be a first time, and as a result of the winning of this championship, men have come to regard squash racquets more as a competitive sport, and less as a nice, pleasant pastime for society dilettantes, and for business men in search of exercise. As a minor sport, squash has firmly established...
Like tennis, squash raquets was introduced to this country from England; and like tennis, it has not been immediately accepted, but has slowly grown more and more popular. Tennis, when it achieved general recognition in the colleges, immediately became the most important minor sport. It shook off, to a great extent, the connotation of pink teas and cookies; it overcame the objection to the expense and location of courts, and it gained major sport letters for its champions. This is the road which its winter cousin has before it, and on which it has made a good start...
With a strong and well-balanced team chosen from the best of the squad of 40 Freshman wrestlers, the largest since the establishment of the sport at the University, the 1927 matmen will open their season against the Springfield Y. M. C. A. Freshmen this afternoon. The meet will start on the main floor at Hemenway gymnasium at 3 o'clock...
...athletics also there can be no universal intramural sports at Harvard, because there is no dormitory spirit. At Oxford, practically every one is engaged in some sport. In the Freshman dormitories, with only one year's residence, no sufficient hall spirit can be developed to make all men want to represent the hall on its teams...
...Single sculling on the Charles River has become such a popular sport during the last few years that it will soon be necessary to have a separate boat house for the students participating in this form of exercise...