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...freshman heavyweights will have the toughest challenger this weekend, as they go against Penn and Navy in Philadelphia. Coach Ted Wash burn said yesterday that Penn's freshman heavyweight crew is rumored to be beating the varsity boat regularly. Navy's plebe boat, usually a slow starter each season, beat Cornell last week, which may indicate that the Middies are jelling earlier than usual...
Pardee owns the high jump in the Ivy League competition. No one touched him last year, despite an ankle strain at the end of the indoor season. Saturday he faces a sophomore plebe who has attained 6'8". Soccerman Charlie Njoku and sophomore John Newman are both hovering at the 6'4" mark...
However, Harvard will need more than strategy to outscore the powerful Black Knights. This Army team is bolstered by last year's plebe squad which smashed several records en route to an almost undefeated season. Their free-style relay last year consistently turned in faster times than the Army varsity, which defeated Princeton in that event...
Hurt by the graduation of their top sprint star and one diver, the cadets have gained several strong newcomers from last year's Plebe squad, including an exceptional 220 freestyle man. But, while they are much stronger than the Springfield team the Crimson shellacked 73-19 last week, the Army team could leave Cambridge without a single first place...
...cocky plebe, Abrams had problems at West Point. "The hazing was degrading," says Abrams today. "I gladly would have resigned at any time, but I didn't see how I could go home to face my friends and family." Abrams swiped food from the mess hall, anointed an upper-classman's radiator with Limburger cheese, kept a contraband radio in a hollowed-out corner of his mattress, and plinked away at the hindquarters of upperclassmen with an air rifle. Recalls Abrams: "The only thing in which I was outstanding was discipline. I was at the bottom...