Word: midshipmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cadets and Midshipmen are both 7-1 on the season, with losses to Syracuse and Georgetown respectively. On the basis of the Providence scores, Navy appears a little stronger, but that statistical margin is far too small to give the Midshipmen the undisputed role of favorite in today's meet...
Never Question. If it sounds like as tough an apprenticeship as that of midshipmen in Captain Bligh's day, it is. Shields would not have it otherwise. He is dedicated to the idea that the important thing in sailing is racing, and the important thing in racing is winning. If any man is interested in sailing merely to enjoy the sensation of having his boat driven by the wind, Shields is not for him, and he is not for Shields. As a Johnny-come-lately to ocean racing (in 1946), Shields was appalled to find that...
Only number one player Corky Graham looked sharp for the Midshipmen; he tripped Frank Ripley, 6-4, 6-3, and then teamed with John Owens to beat Ripley and Bob Inman, 6-4, 6-2, at first doubles. But Dave Benjamin, Clive Kileff, Chum Steele, and Dean Peckham won straight-set singles matches, and the teams of Steele-Peckham and Benjamin-Kileff won the last two doubles to clinch the match...
...crew race, it would take a visionary to look for competition. when the Harvard tennis team faces Navy at 2 p.m. Saturday. Last year the Crimson won 7-2; since then Lee Pekary, the little dynamo who accounted for both Navy points, has gone off to sea, or whatever Midshipmen do when they graduate. That leaves a depleted Navy team to face an excellent Harvard squad...
...sophomores, Clive Kileff and David Benjamin, plus captain Sandy Walker and Bob Inman, round out a squad that might easily shut out the Midshipmen...