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North Carolina State, the perennial Atlantic Coast Conference power squadron, decided Monday to skip the contest in order to concentrate on the NCAA championships to be held in two weeks...
...Crimson fell behind by ten and seven points, respectively, to the Quakers and the Tigers, after first half doldrums. In both instances, Sanders's squadron set sail from their locker room session to catch up midway through the final half, only to sink back into passive oblivion. Finally, the spoilers struck. Penn's 6 ft. 8 in. sophomore John Engels and Princeton's Joe Vavricka went wild to pirate the game away...
Although Milne is the Blue Jays' best hope, he certainly is not the only good swimmer in the Hopkins bird bath. Six other All-Americans, as well as a stellar freshman class, are featured on the Hopkins power squadron...
...often ineffective even when it tried. In 1907, for instance, the Senate informed Teddy Roosevelt that he would get no cash to send the Great White Fleet round the world. Teddy said he would send it off anyway, gleefully remarking that he already had enough money to get the squadron as far as the Pacific. If the Senators wanted to be blamed for keeping 16 U.S. battleships out there forever, that was their lookout...
...Rickenbacker learned to fly in 17 days, joined the 94th Squadron under Captain James Norman Hall (later the co-author of Mutiny on the Bounty), and soon was diving in his Nieuport fighter to within 150 yds. of enemy planes before opening fire. When Hall was shot down and captured by the Germans, Rickenbacker took over Hall's group-and later the entire squadron-in the battle against the "Flying Circus" of "Red" Baron Manfred von Richthofen. By the end of the war, Rickenbacker had shot down 26 German planes and blimps, and had been awarded 56 decorations, including...