Bugaboo of college basketball teams this year is not Purdue, Indiana or Wisconsin, but a team of sailors from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Last week, before 5,000 screaming trainees who packed the Station's brand-new drill hall, they swamped Northwestern, 47-to-38, for their 14th victory in 16 starts.
Superman athletic teams are nothing new at Great Lakes. During World War I the Station boasted not only a crack basketball team (17 victories in 21 starts), but the No. 1 football team in the U.S. Its roster included four players who have since become...
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