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Fencing, a championship sport at Trinity in the nineteen twenties and thirties.

who did. Among them were Hugh C. Riddle- At one point in Trinity’s history there was a
berger, Charles Mattmann, Larry Nagler. fencing team, a championship fencing team. In
But despite the fact that its existence at their 1935 season the team finished with a 25-3
Trinity has been precarious, football has always record and won their seventh straight Private
been the sport. In 1893 the blue and orange were School Championship. Track, although not as
Junior Inter-Scholastic League Champions with popular as fencing, has enjoyed a longer tenure
a record of eight victories, a tie and a loss. They at Trinity, dating at least from 1897.
won the Championship again in 1907, but 1903
was the season. In this year Trinity played ten In the late twenties and early thirties, football
games and won them all. In addition, the com­ was dropped. Basketball became “the sport,” and
posite score for the year was Trinity 167, op­ Trinity turned out some fine teams and promi­
ponents 0. Typical of the enthusiasm for football nent players like Dudley Maxim.
was this poem, “To our Football Team’’ from For many years Field Days have been high or
1894: low points in Trinity athletics. A Trinity student
Hark, sturdy sons of worthy sires trained for weeks to get in shape for the sack
Hark, ye of whom each one desires race, the three-legged race, the 880 yard walk,
Of “Touchdowns,” “goal,” “drop” the baseball throw, or the one mile safety bicycle
“Punt,” and “kick” race. These occasions were usually held at the
“Runs ’round the end,” and other tricks, Berkley Oval and often participation in special
To mark at least a score a time; events by other schools was invited.
Take this advice though ’tis in rhyme,
And “tackle low” and hand and foot, On these occasions many medals were given
Rest not on laurels earned in past out. The highest athletic award in the School,
Heed not black eye, nor barked shin, the Holden Cup, was first given in 1905 to
Fame, radiant, waits on those who win, Dwight Harold Mohr. The list of recipients in­
Oblivion, night-like throws her veil cludes Dudley Maxim and Hugh C. Riddle-
O’er those unfortunates who fail. berger.

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