Word: captains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scarcely a week after Eddie Erdelatz resigned as head football coach, apparently in pique at Academy refusal to give athletes special privileges, Navy picked his successor: Wayne Hardin, 32, for four years backfield coach under Erdelatz. Captain Slade Cutter, Navy's athletic director, pointedly described Hardin as "a man who knows the problems at the Naval Academy and sympathizes with them...
However, an offsides called against the Crimson forwards, gave the Indians a penalty kick and three points. The Dartmouth captain then picked off a pass from Jack Butterfield and romped ten yards...
...Cadets came back with single runs in the fourth, fifth, and sixth, but Crimson tallies in the sixth and seventh evened things up. Captain John Davis singled to start the sixth. He advanced on Charlie Leamy's grounder, then scored when Charlie Ravenel drove a hit to left...
Their final score came after Crimson captain Hal Churchill accidentally kicked the ball out of bounds on his own one yard line. In the resulting line out, an Indian wing forward gained possession and dived over for three points...
Playing at first singles, Captain Ned Weld routed Navy's Dave Houghton 6-2, 6-3, while Bob Bowditch crushed the Middies' number two man, Marv Osburn, 6-2, 6-2. In the only close contest of the day, Tim Gallwey in third position defeated Nick Temple...