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...Legore was the star of the Yale team. He was given the ball on Yale's first offensive play of the game and the fleet back circled Carnegie's left end for a 52-yard run and a touchdown. Coming at the very start of the game, Carnegie was somewhat bewildered. Another spirited run of Legore for 25 yards soon afterward put Yale in a position to score again and after a series of line plunges by Bingham, Jacques and Legore, Travis Smith, the quarterback, carried the ball over...
Between three and four hundred undergraduates and graduates of the University went on the Naval Training Cruise for Civilians, which started on August 15. The fleet of training vessels consisted of nine ships, the Rhode Island flagship; Virginia, Kearsarge, Louisiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine and New Jersey, all battleships of the Atlantic reserve fleet. The 2300 volunteers formed about half of the crews of these ships, the other half being regular sailors...
...fleet of nine ships was mobilized at Montauk, on the eastern end of Long Island, and on August 20 proceeded to Black Island, where the Volunteer Blue Fleet was organized, which attempted to prevent the landing of 40,000 men by the Red Fleet somewhere north of Cape Hatteras. Twenty torpedo boats, together with colliers, supply ships, submarines and an aeroplane completed the fleet. The torpedo boats were sent out to scout for the enemy, and reported its location east of New Jersey, whither the battleships were sent. After several minor fights the Blues were defeated in a large engagement...
...Navy Y. M. C. A. is an organization of national scope, maintaining adequate buildings adapted to its important work in the neighborhood of the larger navy yards in the country. Although the Third Division of the Atlantic Fleet has Boston for a home port, it is alone in being entirely insufficiently equipped in this respect. Over 10,000 different bluejackets and marines come here every year for a period varying from a few days to several months and in many respects the Boston Yard is the second in size in the United States. The present move on foot...
...Remarkable opportunity for a Summer Cruise on a dreadnaught taking part in the big battle manoeuvers of the Atlantic Fleet. A chance to see Battleships, Cruisers, Submarines, Torpedo-boats and Hydro-aeroplane in actual operation in a great naval war-game." THOMAS W. SLOCUM '90, Overseer...