Word: plebes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first afternoon at the Point, with his grey hat pulled low against a chill drizzle, Ike plodded up and down the sidelines of Michie Stadium, watching the Army plebe football team play Colgate freshmen. "I don't like that. I don't like that at all. Let's put the cork in the bottle," he exclaimed as a Colgate back cracked through for yardage. The President, who once coached the plebe team, grinned broadly when Army hung onto a 12-7 lead until the final whistle. Next morning he fidgeted nervously outside the hotel waiting...
...middle, essaying a courtly bow. "Hey, Ike," came a shout from another quarter, and there stood Richard and James ("Shorty") Walsh, wizened, pixylike Irishmen who had worked 50 years in the West Point tailor's shop, and remembered fitting the Eisenhower uniform when the President was a plebe back in 1911. For a military man it was an unexpected thing to do, but the President broke ranks at once, jog-trotted clear out of the parade, and began gagging with the Walshes; when he subsequently caught up with the slow-marching alumni, he grinned and noted his unmilitary lapse...
Every coach at the 52nd annual Intercollegiate Rowing Regatta agreed: Navy had the best crew around. Even Navy's professionally pessimistic Coach Rusty Callow admitted he expected to win. Not since their plebe regatta on Lake Marietta, Ohio, in 1951. had his boys been beaten; as a varsity crew they had won 28 straight races. Said Callow: "They have an 'engine room' [Stroke Oar Ed Stevens and No. 7, Wayne Frye] that is one of the greatest that has ever rowed in a shell." As far as Callow was concerned, his boatload of oarsmen had only...
...turned out generals by the dozen (among them: Lieut. General James T. Moore, Major General Harry K. Pickett, Major General James B. Allison). Major Thomas D. Howie ("See you in St. Lô") went to the Citadel, and so did Korean Ace Captain Dolphin Overton. At the Citadel, a plebe is still a Doowillie, Dumbrod, Dumbsmack or Duwack; he must still "crawl" for an upperclassman. If a cadet asks, "What do plebes rank?", the Doowillie must reply: "Sir, the president's cat, the commandant's dog, the waitresses in the mess hall and all the colonels at Clemson...
There is one outstanding freshman practicing with the Yardlings who won't play a game all year, but may be of help to Jordan next year. He is Mario Ricci, a transfer student from the Naval Academy at Annapolis, where he played in the plebe backfield last year...