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...most powerful aids to aviation that has been developed in this country. Henceforth every big college will be somewhat of a training school for efficient pilots. All the service men will soon have left the universities, but they will be replaced by younger students attracted to the new sport in part because of its military importance...
Boxing as an intercollegiate sport is rapidly gaining support at a number of colleges and universities in all parts of the country, and championship tourneys under revised ring rules are not at all unlikely within the next few years. Bouts between picked teams representing Oxford and Cambridge Universities have been part of the annual English sport schedule for many years...
...approval of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Dartmouth and other colleges in New England have engaged boxing coaches and plan intramural tournaments with the probability of broader activity within a year or two, while in the Middle West the "Little Conference" has agreed to adopt boxing as a major sport...
...situation. Before 1909 the University had thirteen victories to its credit in the Intercollegiates, four more than the nearest rival. Since then in the course of ten years Harvard has not won a single championship. The management realizes that action is needed, and have laid plans to bring the sport back to its rightful position by making it popular with the undergraduates. They have pointed out that a track athlete is made at college; he isn't born a star; that there is a chance for anyone with ordinary physique to develop into a runner or field-event...
...Moore of Cambridge has been chosen assistant manager. Both of these appointments are subject to the approval of the Student Council and the Athletic Committee. These men are chosen as a result of a six weeks' competition which commenced in November with the inauguration of basketball as a minor sport for Freshmen...