Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain Ned Weld, playing first singles, led off the rout when he took less then a half hour to dispose of Cadet lefthander Hank Fisher, 6-2, 6-0. Weld started fairly slowly, as he had against M.I.T.'s Raul Karman last Wednesday, allowing Fisher's errors to give him the opening games. But in the second set the Crimson captain was very sharp, and, with his service clicking beautifully, he ran through Fisher in short order...
...took its only set at second singles, as Jim O'Connell, a strong player with a fine serve, lost to Bob Bowditch, 4-6, 6-0, 6-2. Bowditch, after a lot of difficulty with O'Connell's service in the first set, found his touch and overwhelmed the Cadet in the next two sets, although O'Connell made very few errors throughout the match...
...inspired Crimson track team turned in the biggest upset of the young outdoor season last Saturday at West Point, defeating heavily-favored Army by a resounding 88-52 margin. The Cadet varsity that New York writers were calling "the best dual meet team in the East" bowed before one of the most impressive performances ever put on by a Crimson squad...
Dyke Benjamin led off the varsity's triumph with an excellent 4:15.6 win over Army's Dick Healy in the mile. Less than an hour later, he came back to take the two-mile, leaving Cadet Dick Greene far behind and setting a new Harvard and Shea Stadium record of 9:08.5. Benjamin's mark was nearly 13 seconds faster than Pete Reider's former University standard, and it establishes him as perhaps the leading distance runner in this part of the country...
Joel Landau, Frank Yeomans, and Sandy Dodge followed the 440 victory with a sweep in the 100, but the heroics were just beginning. After Landau, running the high hurdles only ten minutes after his 10.1 win in the 100, lost a close race to Cadet Gil Roesler, the varsity's Art Cahn, Gus Schumacher, and Andy Bacher faced Army's Bill Hanne...