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Home at Annapolis on the banks of the Severn, Navy was toppled from the ranks of the unbeaten when Pittsburgh torpedoed the Midshipmen with five touchdowns. A pass, Borries-to-King, saved Navy from being whitewashed. Final score...
...midshipmen marched away feeling they had given His Holiness a thrill. Remarked a Vatican official afterwards: "The Holy Father has received pilgrims from Africa who have made stranger noises than that...
...last week 400 Annapolis midshipmen, trim in white, marched off their cruise ships Wyoming and Arkansas, through the streets of Rome, past helmeted Swiss Guards and into the Vatican. In the long, gilded Hall of the Consistory where His Holiness the Pope is accustomed to receive his Cardinals, they knelt on glistening marble. Pius XI mounted his throne to greet them, made a little speech about the sea as a character-builder, passed up & down the hall to confer his blessing. With that His Holiness thought the audience was over. Not so Midshipman Henry L. ("Hank") Muller of Leonia...
...Annapolis. Then lean, bearded Joseph Mason Reeves will read an order making him master of all U. S. warships. "Bull"' Reeves has been an outstanding naval figure since that autumn afternoon in 1894 when, injured, he saved the day for Annapolis on the football field, spurred the Midshipmen to victory over Army, 6-4. After graduation he entered the engineering division, was in the belly of the U. S. S. Oregon, crowding steam into her old boilers to drive her at destroyer speed around Cape Horn from San Francisco in time for the battle of Santiago. For that deed...
...returned to the Naval Academy to teach chemistry and physics. He also became head football coach, and the brains and aggressiveness which marked him as a fast, rangy end helped "sink" the Army again. 6-0. For his kindness to luckless midshipmen about to be "bilged." the class of 1909 dedicated its year book to him. His consideration was only natural, since Joseph Reeves can think of no more unhappy fate than not being in the Navy...