Word: oldham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Archie Oldham, in his first year as coach of the Lions, will be counting heavily on the performance of captain Phil Matthews, a senior, and Murray Melton, a sophomore guard. Melton broke Chet Forte's freshman scoring record last year by racking up 531 point for the season and a 25.3 average per game...
Columbia, on the other hand, has dropped its last eight in a row, after winning its opening contest. The Lions have nothing much beyond their young coach, Archie Oldham, who probably wishes that Chet Forte and Ted Dwyer were still around...
...forward, Oldham will most likely use veteran Richie Rodin and sophomore Edvin Auzenbergs. Captain Phil Matthews will be at center, with Murray Melton and Hal Kaplan at guard. Columbia has little depth, except for inexperienced sophomores and juniors...
...Easy. Oldham did not do it alone. Army Tackle Bill Melnik got so exasperated at seeing Navy's Battleship Tackle Bob Reifsnyder (6 ft. 2 in., 228 Ibs.) playing in the Army's backfield that he put Bob out of the game. It was easy. He threw punches until Bob punched back. Both were banished...
...then it was too late. Navy had won, Academy Superintendent Rear Admiral William R. Smedberg III was already in the dressing room accepting an invitation to play Rice in the Cotton Bowl, and Ned Oldham, candidate for lieutenant commander in the Brigade of Midshipmen and scholar on the superintendent's list (Naval Academy equivalent of dean's list), had already insured himself a name and a place in Navy history...