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1910
The Naval Academy football team is undefeated and unscored on. Thomas
Starr King II, team captain, misses part of season with typhoid
fever. He will be one of 29 midshipmen with this disease. The need
for a safe milk supply will be the reason for establishing the Naval
Academy Dairy.
1911
First naval aerodrome established at Greenbury
Point and experimental flights tried at USNA. In 1913 it is moved
to Pensacola, Florida.
May 15, 1911
Captain John H. Gibbons becomes superintendent.
September 7, 1911
LT John Rodgers makes the first flight from USNA.
1912
Congress approves commissioning graduates on graduation day and
ends previously required two year sea service as passed midshipmen.
June, 1912
Graduation hat toss tradition begins.
September 30, 1912
Former Spanish cruiser USS Reina Mercedes
arrives as station ship to replace USS Santee.
January 26, 1913
John Paul Jones is laid to rest in crypt
of the chapel
February 1, 1913
The U. S. Naval Postgraduate School is established at Annapolis,
Maryland. The Marine Barracks building in which the school is located
will be named Halligan Hall in honor of the school's first director,
Commander John Halligan, Jr.
February 7, 1914
Captain William F. Fullam becomes superintendent.
September 20, 1915
Captain Edward W. Eberle becomes superintendent.
1917
The Academy undertakes the indoctrination of 2,569 men for commissioning
in the U. S. Naval Reserve Force.
Two new wings, 3 & 4, are added to Bancroft Hall.
March 29, 1917
The class of 1917 graduates, two months
early. A similar pattern of early graduation will be established
in World War II, with the class of 1941 graduating in February vice
June.
April 6, 1917
U.S. enters WWI. By order of thc superintendent the following message
is published and posted at evening roll call: "Sixteen ALNAV
-- The President has signed Act of Congress which declares that
a state of war exists between the United States and Germany."
February 12, 1917
Captain Archibald H. Scales becomes superintendent.
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