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	Shafer	Plotts	Lammli	Madsen	Otradovsky
Major	Eggers	Currier	Esenther	Kossek	Wanek

R. O. T. C. Rifle Team

HE University rifle team ended the 1926 season in much better shape that it had the year before. The percentage was much better. While the 1925 team broke just about even, this year's squad turned in twenty-two wins, twelve losses and one tie, winning almost two-thirds of the matches scheduled. Captain Eggers, who is just finishing his third year in charge of the team, expressed himself as being very well pleased with the showing of the team. He will be in charge of the rifle range again next year.
     The individual percentage was better this year than it had been before. Lammli, who led the 1925 marksmen, bettered his score, bringing his average to 376.56 out of a possible 400. Shafer was second with 374.32, Currier was third with 372, and the other five shooters followed in this order: Otrodovsky, Madsen, Skinner, Kossek, Plotts.

      This year is the fourth of recognized telegraphic shooting and the shoot is coming to be an established activity in schools of the United States. The matches this year were with colleges and universities all over the United States. Comparative scores are telegraphed back and forth so that the standing of the various teams can be computed. Nebraska, in her four years of competition has made a good showing.

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The Regiment

CADET COLONEL DONALD F. SAMPSON
Commandant of Cadets

     In accordance with an established custom, Miss Frances McChesney was chosen honorary colonel of the cadet regiment. The selection was made by popular vote of the student body at the fall elections. The selection has been kept secret in past years and the honorary colonel has been presented at the Military Ball, but due to an arbitrary decision of the student council, the vote was announced following the election.

     The Nebraska R. O. T. C. comprises a full infantry regiment, including a headquarters company, and full regimental and battalion staffs. The Nebraska regiment is one of the largest infantry regiments stationed at any one place in the United States.

FRANCES MCCHESNEY
Honorary Colonel

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