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AlOIHIA BOXING SQUAD BOXING Those of us who are prone to regard Western Maryland football teams on par with the best in the country would be somewhat surprised and elated if the Terrors branched forth with a schedule which included Southern California, Michigan, and Princeton. Yet the Terror boxing squad met that kind of competition in their intercollegiate hstic encounters. The Navy, Army, Syracuse, Catholic University, Penn State, University of Maryland, St. John's, and Loyola College were the schools that the Green and Gold battlers met during the 1934 boxing season. When this difficult schedule was finished meets had been lost to the University of Maryland, Navy, Syracuse and Penn State, yet these bouts had enabled Coach Harlow to bring his men along and have them ready for the intercollegiates at which the Terrors were to acquit themselves quite well. . Similar to the cases in previous years, Coach Harlow had to start with a scarcity of material and build a boxing team. In the lower weights there was only one man who had par- ticipated in collegiate competition, but in the upper weights Coach Harlow was fortunate in that he had Bernie Kaplan, Andrew Gorski, Don Keyser and Tom Pontecorvo, all of whom had fought the previous year. Around these men and Captain Meyers, who fought in the 135. pound class, the team was built. After much experimentation through the season the Terror team that entered the Intercollegiate at Syracuse was: Bennett 115 pounds, Keyser 155pounds, Gorski 165 pounds, Kaplan 175 pounds, and Pontocorvo, heavyweight. This Terror team was one of the best-balanced aggregations ever to represent Western PAGE 165