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Rifle Marksmanship

ASE firing! Unload! Move forward! This is a familiar command to over seventy women who practiced at the rifle range this fall. The practice season started December 2, 1925, and fifty-five women were eligible for the class tournament the last week in January. The Sophomores won the match with an average score of 47 out of a possible 50.

     This season's interest in Rifle Marksmanship has exceeded that of any other year and has developed many accurate shots among the women. A picked team firing in prone, sitting, kneeling, and standing won an unofficial match from the men's team.

      Intercollegiate matches were fired with almost every state in the union and with Hawaii. All matches were fired in prone position only. As is the practice in other W. A. A. sports a permanent team was not chosen until the end of the season which closed April 3, 1926, with an intercollegiate tournament, the first of its kind.

      Two temporary teams of ten women each, fired each week, the high ten scores counting in the matches. Edith Gran served as captain of the Scarlet Team, and Bernice Moore of the Cream Team. The interest and co-operation of the Military Department aided very materially in making the season a success. Lucile Bauer was manager of this sport, and filled her position well.

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