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¶ A 1,000-piece band with six drum-majors played between halves of a demonstration U. S. football game in which a team of players from Stanford, California and the University of Southern California beat a Harvard-Yale-Princeton team 7 to 6, under floodlights, in the Olympic Stadium.
¶ Displeased by a decision against him, Eduardo Lopez, curly-haired Mexican fencer, flung his sword into the air. It bounced over the guard rail, injured the hand of a small boy. Dismayed, Fencer Lopez apologized, was disqualified. In the fencing team championships France won the foils and epee, Hungary the sabre.
¶ An all-star lacrosse team of Canada lost the deciding game of a two-out-of-three-game exhibition series to Johns Hopkins, 7 to 4.
¶ U. S. Olympic boxers won the team championship with two championships, three third places. Heavyweight champion was Santiago Lovell, Argentine Negro.