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...interview yesterday with a CRIMSON reporter, F. W. Moore '93, announced that inter-battalion and inter-company athletics would be promoted during the coming fall and winter. Owing to the decrease in the number of candidates who report for any one sport, it has been found impossible to carry out the inter-class schedules which were planned, especially in regard to the minor sports. The matter will be taken up in companies, and those interested in some branch of athletics will organize a team from their company...
That a large majority of the University's athletes of recent years have enlisted their services in some branch of war activity is apparent from figures collected by the University committee on war records. Of all the major and minor sport captains elected from the class of 1917 there is not one who is not now in national service...
Leaders of the minor sport organizations are also in the Federal forces. H. Wentworth '17, who captained the swimming team, is a captain at Camp Grant, Rockford, III.; G. C. Caner '17, regular tackle on the 1916 football team, who was also chosen to lead the tennis team, is in the American Ambulance Field Service; D. Campbell '17, gymnastic team captain, is a member of the aviation corps; while R. C. Cooke '18, soccer leader, is in the Naval Reserve. W. B. Snow '18, elected leader of the wrestling team for both last year and this, has been detailed...
...Church '20 and N. S. Walker '20, Freshman football and hockey leaders last year, the only major-sport captains elected from the class or 1920, were in the Naval Reserve last summer. Church has been detailed to the School for Ensigns, while Walker has returned to College on leave of absence...
...Percy '18 and W. H. Wheeler '18 were the only captains elected for the major sport teams of 1917-1918, and both hold commissions in Federal Service. Wheeler, who was to have been captain of the football team this fall, took the three-months course at Annapolis, and at the close was made an ensign in the Naval Reserve. Percy, hockey captain elect, is now a lieutenant in the Marines...