College Bowl Team Wins Tourney

Harvard's College Bowl team finished first out of 22 East Coast schools Saturday at a tournament at Princeton, qualifying the team for the national competition.

The Saturday win was Harvard's fourth consecutive win at the competition. The team defeated Swarthmore, Williams and Penn State in the final three rounds.

In March, the team will compete in Maryland at the American College Federation National Quiz Bowl Tournament.

Team member Gilbert D. Collins '96 said the 345-115 final victory against Penn State's Nittany Lion team capped a "dominating day" for the Crimson.

"We didn't have a game all day when we won by less than a 100 points and most of our games we won by more than 200," Collins said.

The team consists of Matthew L. Bruce '96, Collins, Graydon Hazenberg, a second year graduate student in astronomy, Jordan Katine, a third year graduate students in physics, and John J. Todor '95.

Contestants are asked a wide variety of questions from all academic fields in two rounds. In the toss-up rounds, a question is asked to both teams and the first member to answer it correctly earns his or her team an opportunity to answer a bonus round question.

In the bonus round, team members may confer before answering questions. Teams earn points for answering questions correctly and lose points when they answer incorrectly.

"College Bowl is your typical Harvardian activity ... the pursuit of knowledge--just only faster," Collins said.