Word: midshipmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson golf squad did not place among top teams at the Eastern Intercollegiate Tournament, held at Annapolis this weekend. Navy placed first with 608, followed by Penn State with 613, Yale with 620, and Cornell with 626. Army, to the relief of the Midshipmen, placed tenth with...
...Midshipmen are rated a little stronger than Army, 6 to 5. Navy lost 5 to 4 to Brown, however, and the Bruins came up on the short end of a 7-1 score when they met the varsity two weeks...
...next match, this Saturday against Navy at Annapolis, will provide a test of how the Crimson will fare against Yale, since the Elis defeated the Midshipmen, 5-4, in their last encounter...
...yards away into the packed mass of screaming, struggling men in the boats." The men "died in the boats just as they stood, crowded shoulder to shoulder, without even the grace of an instant of time to raise their rifles. When all were dead or wounded-the midshipmen and sailors as well as the soldiers-the boats drifted helplessly away." Air Commodore Samson came flying over at this moment, "and looking down saw that the calm blue sea was 'absolutely red with blood' for a distance of 50 yards from the shore...
...Annapolis, four-star Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, last week exhorted graduating midshipmen to avoid making "a fetish of tradition" and to remember always that the Navy, Army and Air Force "must think as a team, work as a team, and, when necessary, fight as a team." At Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, Army Secretary Wilbur Brucker overflowed with tributes to the "magnificent Navy" and the "great Air Force with intrepid pilots." Other resonant military voices joined Brucker and Radford in three-part harmony-but they failed to drown out the dissonant undertones...