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...Crimson routed the Midshipmen, 72-41, last winter, but the victory resulted in good part from intelligent strategy by coach Bill Brooks and a spirited Harvard effort. And Navy has added several outstanding sophomores to its roster this year...
...springtime Wednesday afternoons at Annapolis, the U.S. Naval Academy's 4,300 midshipmen, starched and polished, march smartly to the drum and bugle of dress parade. It is a traditional display of martial crispness for academy brass and visiting VIPs. But these Wednesdays, after the last salute is snapped, many a middie returns to the not-so-traditional company of Machiavelli, Malthus or Montesquieu-required reading in such brand-new majors as literature, economics and political science. The marriage of military discipline and academic freedom is uneasy at best, but Rear Admiral James F. Calvert, now in his second...
Harvard thrashed Navy by about six lengths only one week after Princeton had squeaked by the Midshipmen with a onelength victory. Yale has beaten M. I. T. by a length and Rutgers by three, but Harvard has downed M. I. T. by four, and Rutgers by seven...
Navy leads the league but the Midshipmen still must play Princeton, Dartmouth, and Harvard away from home. Dartmouth only one game off the leading pace, seems to have the easiest schedule and will play all of its games in Hanover...
...Harvard can conceivably pass Princeton. Penn, and Brown this weekend if it sweeps its three-game series, and with a doubleheader with Navy just one week away. the Crimson has an excellent chance of dumping the Midshipmen. But in order to catch Dartmouth. Harvard cannot afford to drop another contest...