Word: midshipmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although both the Crimson and Navy had accumulated 28 points at the end of the three-race vacation series at Annapolis, the race committee gave the silver to the Midshipmen. They had a second place, a fifth, and a first to Harvard's fourth place and two seconds...
...Naval Academy's hospital in Annapolis last week, a dozen midshipmen who did not seem critically ill were confined to bed and getting intensive care. In mid-February they had begun to feel lethargic. Then they had developed slight fevers, headaches and sore throats. The lymph glands in their necks and armpits swelled. Medical Officer Edward C. Keene was not surprised-he would have been surprised if he had not had a rash of cases. The ailing mids were victims of infectious mononucleosis, a mysterious disease that breaks out about six weeks after infection. And infection most commonly occurs...
Much of the confusion in diagnosing it is largely unnecessary, says Dr. Hoagland: the symptoms of a full-blown case follow a pattern like the midshipmen's. A blood test alone will neither prove nor disprove mononucleosis, but a blood test in combination with these symptoms is decisive...
After nine events, the trailing Midshipmen had to take the first two places in the 200 breaststroke to come within winning distance in the final 400 freestyle relay. But Crimson sophomore John Pringle sprinted to an unexpected and close second in the breaststroke behind Navy record smasher Don Griffin to sew the meet up before 1,500 screaming fans...
...Midshipmen to watch will be "Colonel" Don Griffin, Eastern breaststroke champion, and Gay Hopkins, who last week broke up what Brooks calls the Yale "mortgage" in the 220 freestyle...