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Except for number one man Art Potter, the Midshipmen have most of last year's starters back. That lineup upset the Crimson in the team's only meeting last season and it finished second to the varsity in the battle for national honors...
Faced with the loss of five of last year's top nine men, including national inter-collegiate champion Charlie Ufford, Crimson Coach Jack Barnaby must rely on a relatively untested team against the powerful Midshipmen...
Whether the Midshipmen deliberately rolled up the score or not is a debatable question. Coach Eddie Erdelatz used 34 men. But the usually stingy Princeton coach, Charley Caldwell, certainly had no intention of running the score up--he used...
Order of Amnesty. He got in 18 holes more at the next stop, too-the Naval Academy at Annapolis-but not before attending Sunday chapel and appearing before the brigade of midshipmen, as it gathered at historic Bancroft Hall for luncheon. He didn't, he said, know quite what to say to them on a Sunday afternoon. "If I had taken you from a mathematics or engineering class, there might have been a little different aspect to the case. But today when it is chow time...
...seems a different story" Then, he added, grinning, that there would be at least a few who would "mark my visit with some satisfaction." He had just ordered an amnesty (a privilege only given Presidents and visiting heads of state) for 260 midshipmen facing punishment for minor infractions of naval academy rules. Said Ike with lifted eyebrows: "I didn't know there were that many offenders in the U.S. Navy." The delighted middies saluted him with a roar of applause...