Word: midshipmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flourishing an extravagantly powerful Chace-like finish, the Crimson varsity flashed across the finish line nearly two lengths ahead of the Midshipmen in the final race of the afternoon. The last stretch of the mile and three-quarters course provided an almost mirror-like surface for the final struggle in a prow-and-prow duel between the oarsmen from the Severn and from Cambridge which Harvard...
...after Jack Pitney and his mates went down to the Severn and gave the Midshipmen a tough run for their money in rough water to lose by a little more than half a length to the Poughkeepsic kings. Spuhn has a right to be anything but gloomy...
...match for their opponents was a much under practiced Crimson lacrosse team, which traveled South last week on its annual Spring Vacation trip. Against the Universities of Pennsylvania and Maryland Captain Phil Hammond's stickmen managed to make a total of six points, but the Midshipmen overwhelmed them by the score...
...stop was Washington. There the 520 student junketeers had tea with Eleanor Roosevelt, kissed (without relish) Congressmen and Vice President Garner, and danced with the newspaper correspondents' corps, the diplomatic corps and students of three local universities. Next day they hurried on to Annapolis to dance with the midshipmen, then, after their train had been delayed 17 minutes by one tardy dancer, pushed on to West Point. They liked West Point better than Annapolis because it provided two cadets for each girl...
Captain Harvey Ross wrestled a hard match at 121 against John Landerth of the Midshipmen, but two overtime periods failed to earn a decision for either man. It is conceivable that under more favorable conditions of traveling, Ross might have won. At 136, Ted Schoenberg once more showed his ability as he held Charlie Chandler of the Middies to a decision...