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Harvard's varsity wrestling will gauge its chances for its first Ivy League title when the Crimson faces Penn this afternoon. The Quakers have returned four starting lettermen, have advanced four first place finishers from last year's Plebe wrestling tournament, have recruited four outstanding freshman prospects, and rate as a favorite along with Yale and Harvard in the Ivy race...
...varsity upset was pulled off by a Middie crew which included four members of last year's Eastern Sprint champion plebe (freshmen) eight. Ullrich's squad jumped to a deck lead off the start and increased the margin to three-quarters of a length at the half-way mark...
...freshman race was indeed the most exciting of the day. Harvard held a lead of half a length to three quarters of the length for most of the race only to be nipped at the finish by a driving plebe eight. The margin of victory was a narrow 5 seconds over the Crimson and 9:5 seconds over the Quakers...
Again, Penn and Harvard are going into the race undefeated but for the first time since 1961, the host Midshipmen are a real threat to upset one if not both of the major powers. Navy had an excellent plebe (freshman) crew last year, which won the Eastern Sprint Championships. This year coach Carl Ullrich has incorporated four of these oarsmen into his varsity boat and five into his second varsity (J.V.) eight...
Calvert's new broom has also swept aside a number of nonacademic traditions, such as freshman hazing. No longer do upperclassmen make a plebe stand at attention and jab at his breastbone until he passes out; gone are the impromptu push-ups and relay races through the endless corridors of the middie dormitory, Bancroft Hall. Plebes are still made to perform menial tasks for upperclassmen, but Calvert firmly maintains that harassment and degradation will not produce respect for authority...