Word: midshipmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Playing against the duo of Hoekstra and Kasper, two Midshipmen who did not compete in the singles, Lindner and Rowbotham dropped the first set, 6-4, and gained a split with a 6-2 victory in the second...
...next day, at Annapolis, the Naval Academy carried its 27-game win streak over Harvard into its annual tilt with the Crimson and wasn't about to see the skein end, not even for charity. The Midshipmen rained 79 shots on netminders Bob Coplan and Brian Everist and coasted to a 17-1 halftime advantage and 21-4 win on attackman Nick Smilari's six goals--all in the first half--and a second quarter bombing of 11 unanswered points...
...Midshipmen, who have never won the Hep title, are rated heavy favorites in the contest, with defending champion Penn and the Crimson relegated to contender status. The possibility of a Harvard win looks slim, largely because of the overwhelming superiority of Navy in the field and the relative balance of the other schools in the running events...
After Navy's weight men have taken a possible 1-2 in both the shot and 35-pound weight throw, Penn and Harvard will begin chipping away at the Midshipmen's lead in the running events. Bob Clayton is the favorite in the 1000-yard run, but Penn's Dennis Fikes has run the distance under 2:10 as well, and the two could provide the crowd with quite a race...
...prelude to Nixon's oath-taking, the choir of the combined service academics rendered "America the Beautiful," during which cadets and Midshipmen recited portions of the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address...