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Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Follows the players from West Point and Annapolis through the 1995 football season, tracing the ups and downs of both teams as they deal with the rigors of the game and academic pressures while preparing for the traditional Army-Navy showdown.
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"The football team at the U.S. Military Academy is not like other college football teams. At other schools, athletes are catered to and coddled at every turn. At West Point, they carry the same arduous load as their fellow cadets, shouldering an Ivy League-caliber education and year-round military training. After graduation they are not going to the NFL but to danger zones halfway around the world. These young men are not just football players, they...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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In the autumn of 1912, the football team from Carlisle Indian Industrial School took the field at the U.S. Military Academy, home to the bigger, stronger, and better-equipped West Point Cadets. Sportswriters billed the game as a sort of rematch, pitting against each other the descendants of U.S. soldiers and American Indians who fought on the battlefield only 20 years earlier. But for lightning-fast Jim Thorpe and the other Carlisle players, that...
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