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...four others and scooped up twelve ground balls-a skill roughly akin to recovering a fumble in a free-swinging football pileup. Backed by Goalie Les Matthews, who made twelve saves, and Defenseman Jim Ferguson, who meted out his share of bruises, the Blue Jays outlasted the midshipmen 12-7 to register their ninth consecutive victory...
Navy usually has a pretty good turnout for all its athletics events, as midshipmen are expected to participate in athletics and support Navy teams. But it looks as though the Middies will be in for another in a long string of disappointments...
Playing against the duo of Hoekstra and Kasper, two Midshipmen who did not compete in the singles, Lindner and Rowbotham dropped the first set, 6-4, and gained a split with a 6-2 victory in the second...
...next day, at Annapolis, the Naval Academy carried its 27-game win streak over Harvard into its annual tilt with the Crimson and wasn't about to see the skein end, not even for charity. The Midshipmen rained 79 shots on netminders Bob Coplan and Brian Everist and coasted to a 17-1 halftime advantage and 21-4 win on attackman Nick Smilari's six goals--all in the first half--and a second quarter bombing of 11 unanswered points...
After Navy's weight men have taken a possible 1-2 in both the shot and 35-pound weight throw, Penn and Harvard will begin chipping away at the Midshipmen's lead in the running events. Bob Clayton is the favorite in the 1000-yard run, but Penn's Dennis Fikes has run the distance under 2:10 as well, and the two could provide the crowd with quite a race...