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The St. Patrick's Day Fight was a short-lived but
well-documented event at Wesley College (forerunner
of the University of Winnipeg). The first event took
place in 1921 when a group of freshman attacked some
senior students who were bragging about their new
spats (shoe accessories) - the spats were captured.
For the next decade, on the 17th of March each year,
students gathered on the front lawn of the University
to engage in a ritual of rough-housing, the prize
being a green flag claimed by the victors. The St.
Patrick's Day Fight was cancelled in 1931, and not
repeated in subsequent years. (Cf. Bedford, The University
of Winnipeg: A history of the founding colleges, pp.
197-199).
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