Tennis
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Tournaments
In May 1911, a tournament was held between Mount Allison and the town, and two months later University student Daisy Gass, class of 1911, won a tennis championship against competitors from ten other colleges at the YWCA Muskoka Conference in Ontario. This is the only record of tennis being played against students of other colleges. Hopes of starting an intercollegiate league, as stated in The Argosy (April 1914), never materialized.
Mount Allison's closing week ceremonies in May featured tennis between 1911 and 1914. In 1913, men's singles and mixed doubles tournaments were held, and in 1914 both the University and Academy formed tennis clubs and an interclass tournament was played during the closing ceremonies. By October 1914, however, interest in the sport among students of the Ladies' College began to wane, while the popularity of basketball among female students grew once again.
There is no indication that women at Mount Allison played tennis on campus from 1915 to the end of WWI. University men, meanwhile, continued to play interclass tennis during the fall months between 1916 and 1918, competing for a cup donated by Allisonian and chemistry professor Harold Eugene Bigelow.
"Mt. A's Immortal Four," University women's tennis players, class of 1916
Mount Allison tennis courts and players, [1919?]
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