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Navy has beaten Columbia, but judging by the Lion's howling, here on Saturday that doesn't make the Midshipmen a championship eight...
During the Army-Navy football game of 1894, the midshipmen set up a wild shout when a Navy player wearing a football helmet trotted out on the field and took his place in the line. In those days football players wore neither numbers nor helmets. So from his conical headgear the midshipmen knew who the player was and that his skull had been injured earlier in the year. "Reeves!" they shouted, "Bull Reeves!" And when Navy won (6-4), the midshipmen gave"Bull" Reeves credit for having saved the game...
...letter-and, oh, he was so terribly upset about those poor little kittens. ¶"I love the U. S. Navy more than any other branch of the Government," confided President Roosevelt at the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis last week as he handed out diplomas to 432 graduating midshipmen...
...Harvard bridge, the Jayvees had piled up a 1 1-2 length lead over the Midshipmen; but just beyond the bridge they intercepted the wash of an outboard motorboat so that they were almost forced to stop rowing, and the Navy overhauled them by a length...
...quarter of a mile from the finish a police launch that was chasing the speedy outboard motorboat gave the Crimson crew another wash, and the Midshipmen. rowing at 36, got ahead by a deck Stroke Drury raised the Crimson beat from 33 as soon as the wash had subsided; and Coxswain Littlefield spurred the crew by telling them that there were only ten strokes to go when there were actually twenty. Drury and his crew responded with what was the best sprint witnessed this year on the Charles; and they nosed out the Midshipmen by a bare quarter-length...