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TENNIS
The tennis association of the University of Nebraska was organized in 1890, with Charles D. Chandler as first president. Two courts, soon increased to three, were laid out directly west of University Hall. Later they were moved to the site of the present Law building. The first holder of the University championship was Miss Louise Pound, who was on the team which played Doane College in the early '90's. She was Nebraska's representative for two years in singles, and with Emory C. Hardy made up our team in doubles. The tennis association has had many excellent players on its membership roll. Earl E. Farnsworth, champion in 1902, became state champion in singles, and with I. M. Raymond, Jr., won the state championship in doubles. He was collegiate champion of Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska in the fall of 1903. H. V. Failor, '02, became a tri-state champion. Other men holding 'varsity firsts in singles or doubles were Arthur Scribner, Fred Wright, Ralph Cassady, '05, and C. M. Mathewson, '06. In 1905, competitions with Iowa and Minnesota were held.
The tennis teams were never under the jurisdiction of the athletic department until 1912. The association ran as an independent association and made its own engagements for dual meets. In 1909, R. E. Weaverling and Harry Smith were our representatives against Kansas. In 1911 the first Missouri Valley conference meet was held, and Nebraska was victorious. John T. Tate won first place in singles, and with M. F. Goodbody as partner, won the doubles. Guy Williams, '14, was a leading player till his graduation, and so was E. F. Meyer. Last should be mentioned Lieutenant Harry Ellis, '16, recently wounded in the Argonne in France, who beside being college champion was three times a state champion in doubles, mad Lieutenant Edward Geeson, who won the title of state champion in 1917.
In the fall of 1917 the game was abandoned at the University because of war conditions, but it will be resumed
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