Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter of minutes after the Navy blasted off its fifth Vanguard rocket at Cape Canaveral one night last week, instruments flashed word to Central Control that all three stages had fired successfully, that the third stage was sailing along faster than the 18,000 m.p.h. needed to orbit. But from downrange tracking stations came a warning that the third stage was climbing at too sharp an angle. After San Diego reported no signal at all, Navy scientists sadly concluded that there was a malfunction in the guidance system, that the rocket failed to keel over into the near-horizontal course...
While the hockey team may have been to some observers a disappointment, the basketball team was a pleasant surprise as it forged to a 16 and 9 record and finished fifth in a strong Ivy League. Led by Captain Dick Woolston, Monk Muncaster, and Bryant Danner, the Crimson five had its most successful season in ten years. A victory over Yale in the last game of the year would have given the quintet a tie for third in the Ivy League, but Johnny Lee and Larry Downs scored 78 points between them to sink the varsity, 105-87. The quintet...
...fencing team as Coach Edo Marion's swordsmen had a creditable 7-5 record for the season. Mitch Thomas was perhaps the premier performer on the team at sabre as he made the second team All-America. The Crimson wrestlers had only an average season as they finished fifth in the Ivy League and were edged by Yale, 16 to 10. Captain Bob Foster went through the season undefeated and will be back next year as will Joe Noble who suffered only one loss. The winter's sole undefeated team was the indoor track squad which won its four dual...
...strength of Landau's two wins, a fourth by John DuMoulin in the hammer, and a fifth in the javelin by Skip Pescosolido the varsity scored 13 points, good for a sixth place tie with Penn. Favored Villanova nosed out a surprising Penn State team to retain its title...
DuMoulin placed fourth in the hammer with a toss of 173 feet, 9 inches, made in the qualifying round. Pescosolido bested his qualifying throw of 188 feet, 10 inches, but his 190 foot throw Saturday did not change his fifth place Friday standing...