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Crimson center Al Lemay has been selected by the Associated Press for its All-Ivy League football team. The two-platoon squad of 22 men announced yesterday was picked after consultation with Ivy League and other Eastern coaches...
Selection has begun for the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class, open to freshmen, soplomores, and juniors, and for the Officer Candidate Course, open to seniors and graduates, Lt. Col. Alexander A. Elder, U.S.M.C., announced yesterday...
...Platoon Leaders Class program entails two summer training periods of six weeks each, but no classes during the academic year. It is open to physically fit non-seniors between the ages of 17 and 25. Officer Candidate Course trainees receive one ten week period prior to commissioning and must be between 20 and 27 years...
...year old guard has played on the defensive platoon for two seasons, and was first-string guard with the '53 Eli squad. Against Harvard on Saturday, Mitinger played the entire defensive game. The Yale Daily News referred to him as the "unsung here of the Blue line" and "the defensive backbone of the team...
...Yesterday," he said, "our Baker Company tried to take a hill. They were driven back and their C.O. was wounded. At the aid station, a couple of riflemen from Point Platoon came back to see how the C.O. was. They asked, 'You want us to take that hill, captain? You just lay still a bit.' Forty minutes later the hill was ours. That's how morale...