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...powerful, hard-rowing Navy crew, never headed from start to finish, fought through the rough waters of the Charles River Basin Saturday to victory over the eights of Harvard, Penn and Tech. From their starting sport, which sent them well ahead of the other crews, the Midshipmen maintained a steady, grinding pace which kept them in the lead until the finish was reached, a lead which Tech but threatened at the last, and the other crews never touched...
...Midshipmen finished half a length ahead of the Engineers, who had about a length and a half lead over the Crimson eight, if the respective times of the boats are considered. The Tech boat, which has improved mightily since it raced against Harvard two weeks ago, showed so much power in their final half-mile that it is not inconceivable that they might have beaten Navy, had they kept to their course. After passing the Harvard bridge, the Tech shell headed in for the wall, possibly in order to obtain better water, and came the last third of the course...
Franklin Buchanan, probably named after the late great Ben Franklin, was born in Baltimore in 1800. At 15 he entered the U. S. Navy as midshipman, at $19 a month, and, like other midshipmen, found it hard to buy all the proper uniforms on that pay. At 23 he served under Commodore David Porter against the Caribbean pirates. Six years later he went as third lieutenant to the famed frigate Constellation, four years older than himself, which had spouted broadsides against the French, the English, the pirates of Tripoli. In 1835 he married Anne Catherine Lloyd of Baltimore, who bore...
...himself until the Trojans had one score, squirmed and passed for another, and with three tacklers hanging on him in the last period took a kick to where his side could use it. Southern California 27, Washington State 7. Half a dozen admirals and the entire corps of Annapolis midshipmen saw the Navy line dam Dartmouth and the Navy backfield use a short forward pass-Gannon to Kirn-to upset the odds, 13-6. Cornell's off-tackle smash had Penn in trouble, but not long. Gentle and Masters threw passes to each other like basketball forwards. Masters...
...year's first snow stimulated numerous midshipmen. Navy 30, West Va. Wesleyan...