Skeet Squad Seeks Student 'Crack Shots'

As the sport of shooting clay pigeons undergoes a nation-wide revival, even Harvard has "gone skeet." In fact it has "been skeet" ever since 1948.

Since that year a small student group--comprising the Harvard Skeet Team--has been traveling at least once a week to the Mayflower Skeet Club in Holliston to pop away at the pigeons.

The team even boasts a coach, Dick Shaughnessey, known to some as the Izaak Walton of skeet shooting. Under Shaughnessey last spring, the team shot its way to a second in the National Telegraphic Intercollegiates.

Currently this group is practicing for the Intercollegiate College Shoot to be held at Lordship, Conn., late in November. And it would like to enter a second, third, and even fourth team in the meet if it can muster enough new men this fall.

Captain Howard Reed '49 is looking for all prospective shooters, and those interested are urged to see him in Winthrop House to try their hand at the sport. Freshmen will even get athletic credit.