At the Athletic Committee meeting yesterday, the organization of a rifle team to compete in the intercollegiate shoot was authorized. This shoot will be held at the Grand Central Palace, New York, on the evening of Saturday, December 28. H. B. Barney '08 has been elected temporary captain. The team, which will be composed of four men, will compete against Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose teams have already been entered. The competition will consist of during at a bull's-eye one inch in diameter, at a distance of 50 yards. The riffle to be used is the United States new Springfield rifle of 22 calibre.
The Rifle and Pistol Club conducted a preliminary practice with a view to developing a team yesterday afternoon, and practice will take place regularly from now on until the time of t he shoot. There is a large number of promising candidates for the team, among them, C. T. Allen '09, J. Alley '08, H. B. Barney '08, G. G. Goddard '09, G. Mixter '08, C. F. Morse '10, J. T. Nightingale '10, E. St. John '10, and S. Thompson '08.
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