Word: midshipmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard does not have another match until January 9, when the Crimson travels to Navy to face the Midshipmen. After a mid-January match with Williams, the Crimson will have another month's break in its schedule before it faces Princeton and Penn...
...They're [Navy] not in shape," Brooks said in a low voice after the meet. The Midshipmen have competed only in two practice meets and traditionally concentrate on the Army meet and the Easterns, both of which come at the end of the season...
...Crimson routed the Midshipmen, 72-41, last winter, but the victory resulted in good part from intelligent strategy by coach Bill Brooks and a spirited Harvard effort. And Navy has added several outstanding sophomores to its roster this year...
Navy's appearance in Cambridge last night was preceded by a letter from its athletic association to Floyd Wilson requesting that space be provided for the midshipmen's hats and overcoats during dinner at Kirkland House. Harvard neglected to make such arrangements two years ago, causing unhappiness on the Navy team...
...springtime Wednesday afternoons at Annapolis, the U.S. Naval Academy's 4,300 midshipmen, starched and polished, march smartly to the drum and bugle of dress parade. It is a traditional display of martial crispness for academy brass and visiting VIPs. But these Wednesdays, after the last salute is snapped, many a middie returns to the not-so-traditional company of Machiavelli, Malthus or Montesquieu-required reading in such brand-new majors as literature, economics and political science. The marriage of military discipline and academic freedom is uneasy at best, but Rear Admiral James F. Calvert, now in his second...