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...first time since they faced Princeton, the wrestling team is facing real opposition, as they meet the midshipmen at Annapolis. So far the Navy team has been defeated but once in three contests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRESTLERS MEET NAVY AT ANNAPOLIS TODAY | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...short visit to Norfolk, Virginia was made by the destroyers and then the ships proceeded to Annapolis. At Annapolis all students were members of an organized tour of the Naval Academy and its buildings, conducted by midshipmen at the Academy The students then enjoyed lunch in the large mess hall at the Academy. Those students having relatives and friends in Washington and Baltimore were allowed to go to those cities for a visit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TALES OF MIL. SCI., NAVAL R.O.T.C. CAMPS | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...strategy can enjoy. Against Navy, the flaw in the team's scoring ability was most evident. When in midfield, with the Navy defenses necessarily spread out to guard against the Crimson pas threat, the mouse trap type of deception worked quite well. But once inside the twenty, when the Midshipmen secondary could accordion in a bit and the linemen could therefore risk being mousetrapped and charge in toward the center, the attack was stopped dead. In order to execute a mousetrap play, there must necessarily be a delay while the victimized lineman is bing trapped, a delay usually effected...

Author: By Donald B. Straus, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/16/1937 | See Source »

...number of bars in the Papal State (four) are all as familiar to Correspondent Morgan as the first names by which he called servants of the Holy Father during 18 years in Rome representing Associated Press, then United Press (TIME, Nov. n, 1935). He tells why voyaging midshipmen from the U. S. Naval Academy, when in Rome, invariably salute His Holiness with "nine 'NAVYS' and three 'HOLY FATHER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Interesting Particulars | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

ANNAPOLIS, MD., Oct. 15--A spirit of hilarious confidence permeates Bancroft Hall Dormitory of the U. S. Naval Academy tonight on the eve of the Harvard encounter. The Midshipmen expect their team to win, and they expressed this belief by an unending series of cheers all during evening's mess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPLETE CONFIDENCE MARKS PRE-GAME NAVY | 10/16/1937 | See Source »

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