Word: annapolises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Davidson and North Carolina pounded the Varsity on its swing through the south, 6 to 3 and 9 to 0 respectively, but the Crimson bounced back on the last leg of its tour for an 8 to 1 show at Annapolis and a 7 to 2 victory at West Point...
Annapolis, Md.
A swing through the South during the next week will be Barnaby's testing ground. Monday the Crimson will disembark in Charlottesville, North Carolina, to meet Davidson College, and the next day will take on North Carolina State. A jog north to Annapolis and from there to West Point will...
Mauldin's remarks, which would surprise no readers of his Up Front but did not exactly follow the Annapolis line, brought enthusiastic applause. His audience knew what he was talking about: of 2,815 midshipmen at the postwar Academy, 54% have done time as enlisted men.*
* A current Annapolis anecdote concerns an unreconstructed first-classman (senior) who hazed an ex-paratrooper plebe, told him: "Mr. So-&-So, this Academy will make a man of you yet." Replied the plebe evenly: "Mac, I've killed better men than you."