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...action of the Athletic Committee M. Piancelli's services as fencing instructor, have been secured this year for the entire season. This is an advance for the sport; in previous years instruction has never lasted longer than two months, and M. Piancelli, among the best of French masters, is by far the most competent teacher ever secured for the University. The work will begin on Monday, October 19, in the fencing room in the basement of the Gymnasium. Thereafter instruction will be given from 3 to 6 o'clock on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. It is open to all fencers...
...improved if this rule develops the anticipated result, that when strong defenses are encountered by the four-man attack, a kicking game, with the usual opportunities for spectacular runs in a broken field, will be resorted to. Another provision of the rules which tends toward the improvement of the sport is that permitting the first person to whom the center passes the ball to run with it, thus giving more encouragement to trick plays than has been the case for many years...
...means of blanks to be sent at once to all members of the University, the Athletic Association has undertaken to collect very detailed statistics covering every branch of sport and form of physical exercise in which students of the University have engaged during the present academic year. It is hoped to have the personal canvass of the University finished by June...
...annual University track games will be held on Soldiers Field on Thursday, April 16, at 4 o'clock. In order that there may be better sport than usual, the games will be handicap and will be open to all members of the University. Entries will be received until Monday, April 13, at noon, and must be made on official blanks which can now be secured from Mr. Graham at Soldiers Field...
...Universities herewith enter into an agreement for contests in the four main branches of sport, football, baseball, rowing and track athletics, under the following conditions, the agreement to continue for successive two-year periods, except upon notice to the contrary by properly constituted authorities not less than six weeks before the termination of the previous period, of two years. Agreement to take effect March 15, 1903. The following rules are to affect all students who enter the Universities after the summer of 1903. The eligibility of students now in the Universities shall be determined under the rules now in force...