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...well-drilled Navy basketball team fought off a second half varsity rally Saturday night to win, 70 to 68, at the Garden. After a slow start-it trailed 36 to 29 at the half-Norm Shepard's squad pulled up to the Midshipmen, but them lost three chances to sew up the game...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Navy Staves Off Late Rally, Edges Five, 70-68, at Garden | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...part of the Harvard curriculum, is essentially a Navy Organization. To enter the program, one must meet certain scholastic and physical requirements, and to be commissioned, one must meet other requirements during four years of College. The Navy sets these standards so that it can be sure all its Midshipmen are of a certain calibre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Loyalty | 11/19/1949 | See Source »

...happen to us? ... We feel that the Navy is shot ..." Replied Denfeld fervently: "No service and no individual will stop the Navy." Later in the week, when four-star Louis Denfeld took his seat at the Navy-Notre Dame football game in Baltimore, more than 3,000 midshipmen waved their caps and cheered wildly while the band broke into Anchors Aweigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Punishment | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...period the midshipmen made a game of it. Then Notre Dame's first-stringers ripped off three touchdowns in 8½ minutes, and Leahy went to work. He pulled out towering (6 ft. 4½ in.) Right End Leon Hart, perhaps the best all-round football player in the business, benched Tackle Jim Martin and gave All-America Fullback Emil ("Red") Sitko the rest of the afternoon off. By scraping the bottom of his substitute barrel and forbidding the use of the forward pass, Leahy held Notre Dame scoreless in the fourth period; But the score was already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Those Irish | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

More than 300 midshipmen in the College's Naval Reserve Officer Training unit have just finished filling out four-page Loyalty Certificates. This is the first time that the Government's standards for rating the loyalty of an individual have filtered down to a large group of undergraduates at Harvard. The standards are very unfortunate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Navy Checks Up | 10/22/1949 | See Source »

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