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Frustrated Jocks Savor Intramurals

There are a tremendous variety
of sports offered by the intramural
department. First, there are the
team sports: touch football and
volleyball in the fall, basketball and
bowling in the winter, and softball
in the spring. Second, there a whole
list of individual sports, including
tennis, free-throw shooting,
handball, squash, cross-country,
swimming, wrestling, boxing,
archery, golf, track, and
badminton.

Another great asset of the IM
department is that any student in
the University can check out any of
the vast array of athletic equipment
which he desires, from boxing
gloves to squash rackets, for a
period of twenty-four hours or for
a weekend.

Mr. E. R. Slaughter, the
University's golf coach, is
responsible for the organizing of
this fine program and is still the
director of it. It is, however, run
entirely by students.

Intercollegiate athletic activities
obviously require a lot more select
group than high school athletics. So
what becomes of the high school
athlete who fails to make a team at
the University? The intramural
department has a very good answer
to that question.

There always have been and
always will be frustrated first year
athletes. Most of their frustrations
are resolved each year, however, by
the Virginia IM department, one of
the best in the country.

The first year man has
numerous opportunities to
participate in the intramural
program. He can play for his
dormitory team, and, if associated
with the R.O.T.C. program, can
compete for the military teams. If
he pledges a fraternity he also can
play in the fraternity or High Point
League.

The only stipulations for IM
competition are that any student
participating in a first year or
varsity sport cannot compete in
intramurals during his team's
respective season (fall, winter, or
spring), and that no student can
play for both a fraternity and a
dormitory team simultaneously.