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...they can find an offensive line. The Tigers have seven of their top eight backs returning and nine defensive starters. They are traditionally a November team, and one which Harvard has traditional trouble beating. Their backfield could be as good or better than Harvard's, but new coach Jake McCandless must first construct something for it to run behind. If he can, and if his system can click, Princeton will be the top challenger to the Crimson's title defense...
Died. Rear Admiral Bruce McCandless, 56, Congressional Medal of Honor winner in World War II; of multiple sclerosis; in Washington, D.C. As a 31-year-old lieutenant commander on the cruiser San Francisco in a battle off Guadalcanal in November 1942, Mc-Candless was knocked unconscious by a direct hit, recovered to find that all his superior officers were either dead or dying, took command of the fleet flagship himself and so boldly attacked the superior Japanese forces that a major U.S. naval victory resulted as the San Francisco alone disabled a battleship and sank a destroyer...
...NASA's Houston headquarters, as project officer for a Buck Rogersish backpack to power space walks. Physicist Don L. Lind, a former Navy airman, helped devise a mechanism for measuring "solar wind"-charged particles that flow through space. Youngest of the lot at 28 is Navy Lieut. Bruce McCandless II, a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering at Stanford, whose father won the Medal of Honor aboard the U.S.S. San Francisco off Guadalcanal...
...Princeton freshmen have had an on-and-off year. They scored an impressive victory over highly-rated Columbia. But the freshman Tigers' coach, Jake McCandless, called their play in the Penn game, which they dropped 14 to 13, "listless, uninspired, and generally poor...
...will we or many others be much impressed by his note that "the English Church of 1533 tended to uphold the laws of God a little more briskly." Judgment is brisk indeed when only bachelors may determine and administer the marriage laws of God! . . . (THE REV.) HUGH MCCANDLESS Church of the Epiphany New York City...