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...newspapers with Allied bias last week compared the Spee's inglorious scuttling with the work of two Australian marine engineers who arrived in Manhattan with accounts of how they and a crew of twelve scuttled an obsolete 10,000-tonner (one of six) in a channel of Scapa Flow After plugging the nose of the vessel into a mudbank, they left her with engines racing forward, slid overside on ropes in time to escape blasts set off in her hold by electric impulse from shore. Workmen had replaced steel plates with wooden planking in sections of the ship...
Those who saw action for Harvard were: Hanford and Riecken at goal; Livingston and Behr, point; Wilcox and Behr, coverpoint; Blotner, Gilbert, and Benedix, first defense; Ferris, Edmunds, Tonner, and Blotner, second defense; Willard and Doughty, center; Downey, Bird, Downs, Blanchard, second attack; Anderson and Riecken, first attack; Zouck and Ieradi, out home; and Hammond, Halstead, Stein, in home...
Hanford played goal in every game, but the other positions were occupied by a number of men. Livingston and Edmunds held down the point, while Wilcox, Tonner, Gilbert, Behr, Benedix played coverpoint...
...defense positions were held by Blotner, Benedix, Tonner, Gilbert, Doughty, Bird, and Sullivan. At center there were Willard, Doughty, Childs, and Tonner. Leading the attack were Zouck, Bird, Sullivan, Halstead, Gilbert, adn Anderson. Captain Hammond was at out home all through the matches, as Riecken, Ieradt, Halstead, alternated at in home...
Albert N. Blanchard, Paul L. Callan, Philip P. Finn, James A. Hermann, Alan S. Manning, Langdon W. Mead, Andre J. Mendel, Summer A. Pendleton, George E. Peters Jr., Richard F. Rabenold, William G. Tonner Jr., James G. Walsh, Clifford W. Wilson...