Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Army roared back upfield with the following kickoff, only to sputter and stall again as Navy stopped the Cadet runners dead in their tracks. In the closing minutes of the half, Navy went 63 yards for touchdown No. 2, with Zastrow heaving a looping 30-yard pass to End Jim Baldinger, who clawed it away from an Army man in the end zone...
Everybody had the idea by now. Whooping and howling, the Middie cheering section hoisted a banner large enough to be read by the Cadet corps across the field. In exultant paraphrase of the title of a current movie, The West Point Story, the banner read: NOW PLAYING-THE ANNAPOLIS STORY...
Though Cagney settles down at the Academy as comfortably as if he were in stir, it takes some feverish scripting to get him there. A down-at-heel Broadway genius, he is hired by a producer ostensibly to stage the cadet corps' annual show, actually to lure the producer's singing nephew (Gordon MacRae) from an Army career to show business. Brass-baiting ex-G.I. Cagney rags the cadets so energetically that the corps makes him a plebe for a while to keep him on a leash-and, of course, to teach him to love West Point...
Army furnished the team's only sophomore, Al Pollard, for fullback, although the six-foot, 190 pounder is not listed as a Cadet starter. End Dan Foldberg and center Elmer Stout were the other West Point representatives...
Last week Hoppy's public, by & large, was still wildly loyal to him. But here & there, kiddie-dissension reared its innocent-looking head. A few children seemed in an uneasy state of transition from cowboys to interplanetary travel as depicted in such programs as Tom Corbett, Space Cadet and Space Patrol Others just seemed to think Hoppy was too darned good for this world...