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...101st checks out its 18 tanks. They are "Iron Coffins," old M48 Pattons, recently modernized with 105-mm turret guns and twelve-cylinder diesels. Crashing through trees and brush, the 54-tonners seem invulnerable. Tankmen know better; but they think they can shoot faster and straighter than the "Russians." They have set up camp at a tank range, miles of scrub and shrubbery dotted with pop-up silhouette targets that look like Soviet tanks, trucks and armored cars. Staff Sergeant Donald Fogal, 36, tank commander (foreman in an auto parts plant), and his regular gunner, Sergeant Ron Pospisil, 31 (Xerox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Summer Soldiers vs. Soviets | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...freshman tankmen lost to a strong Yale team, 52-43, on Saturday, but the afternoon was marked by outstanding individual performances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Tankmen Lose, 52-43; Kobick Sets Backstroke Record | 3/11/1969 | See Source »

...Yale, a combined Winthrop-Dunster hockey team raced to a 4-0 lead only to see the determined Yale All-Stars win, 6-5. Quincy tankmen lost three judges' decisions in a 33-24 dunking by Branford College, while a more experienced Calhoun squash team defeated league-leading Winthrop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Cagers Win Over Bulldog College | 3/10/1969 | See Source »

...most thrilling upset since last fall's Harvard-Yale football game, the varsity tankmen put forth an outstanding team performance to down Eastern powerhouse Dartmouth, 64-49, yesterday in the IAB, breaking two records in the process...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Mermen Beat Dartmouth, Setting Two New Records | 3/6/1969 | See Source »

Without undue effort, the varsity swimming team routinely demolished Columbia, 69-31, Saturday afternoon in New York for the tankmen's fourth win overall and third in the Eastern League...

Author: By Ben Beach, | Title: Swimming Team Defeats Columbia With Ease, 69-31 | 1/13/1969 | See Source »

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