Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-22

many schools and colleges as a recog- nized competitive sport with inter class, intercollegiate and champion ship shoots between carefully coached teams. The fact that trapshooting has won place for itself among the many activities of the college world is evidence that it develops qualities which are not obtained in other forms of recreation, a steady hand, keen eye and delicate coordination between mind and muscle. which have com mended it as a sport and recreation for college men.
 Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale and Harvard were the first colleges to or ganize clubs. to be followed by Co., lumbia, Penn State, Pennsylvania Williams and Cornell Almost with s,out exception these clubs have had a growth that has been remarkable and in itself a testimonial to the in- tense fascination of the sport.
 The shoots between college teams are usually at fifty birds, except in the Intercollegiates when one hundred targets are trapped. There is a five the men who have made the highest averages in the sea sons shooting The three-year eligibility rule is observed generally, and Yale and Princeton teh varsity team. There is a Yale Freshmen and Princeton Freshmen gun team which hold shoots with each other and with Cedarcroft Hill Hotchkiss, Kingsley, Mercersburg, Pawling, Taft and Peddie Institute. At Dartmouth the Athletic council awards an S. D. T. to those that make the gun team while the Yale team gets it's insignia and it's class nu- merals if it wins the shoot. At cv- cry college the same recognition is given to trapshooting as to the other minor sports.
 The latest daUe1Onroept boap the organization of the Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association for the purpose of regulating Intercollegiate trapshooting competition and of in creasing interest in trapshooting as a college sport" The colleges at present enrolled in the Association: Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, Harvard and Cornell. The president and sec retary of the Association are grad uates, elected for three-year terms. The other officers are undergraduates elected from the various constituent clubs. The affairs of the association are transacted by an executive coun- cil in which each club, through it's authorized representative, exercises one vote.
 In addition to it's other functions the association offers trophies at va rious times to be shot for under it's trophy plan. The plan provides that ''only undergraduate members of the association or of affiliated clubs, who
 
 eligible for these trophies At pres ent trophies are issued to the winners of the Intercollegiate championship, the college championships and the in ter-class championships. The inter- collegiate championship trophies are solid gold watch fobs. and are award ed each year to the five members of the team winning the intercollegiate championship. The college champion ship trophies are silver cups and one is contested for annually at each col lege represented in the association. This trophy is awarded to the shooter making the highest average in a se- ries of three club shoots of fifty tar gets each. The interclass champion hip trophies are medals and they are awarded to the members of the class team winning the college champion ship.
 Each year an intercollegiate cham pionship shoot is held under the aus pices of the association The last in ven, Nov. 9. Vale, Princeton, Dart mouth and Cornell were represented. Yale won the championship after close race with Princeton, who finish 429; Princeton, 413; Cornell, 2j2; 356. Captain Caesar, of won the individual charY- pionship with the score of 90x1OO runner up with the score of 80.
 There have been 26 intercollegiate shoots, of those, Yale has won II first places, while Princeton and Har- yard have each won the championship six times.
 Princeton holds the record for the shoots with the high score of 451 x 500 made at New Haven on May 6, 1916. The previous rec ord of 442 300 was made by Yale in 1912.
 Plans are being made to hold a spring intercollegiate shoot, in which not only Yale. Dartmouth, Princeton and Cornell will be represented. but Penn State, and Williams, as well. And there are many who believe the time is not far distant when the intercollegiate association will include all the large colleges east and west. In the words of Nel- son Reed, former captain of the Princeton Gun Team, For the college man who likes to hunt but has not the time nor the opportunity, there is only one substitute, and that is trap shooting. Nothing will serve better | to quicken a mans wits, brace up his l nerves and train his eyes and mus | cles than one afternoon a week spent | at the traps.'