Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Léon Clement Huntziger was a fine professional soldier from his cadet days at Saint-Cyr to his 1940 command of France's Second Army, when he made a bitter-end stand against the Nazis at the Meuse. Marshal Pétain picked him, as a properly brave, dignified warrior, to sign the armistice with Germany in Compiegne forest...
Army was the only team that both squads met this fall and both lost to the well-drilled cadet outfit. Yale also fell before the onslaught of Penn and Princeton, the latter a 21 to 20 thriller last Saturday...
...Near completion was a Darryl Zanuck picture, Cadet Girl, which had been tailored around a patriotic song, Uncle Sam Gets Around, by Songwriters Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger (Thanks for the Memory). Sample lines...
...defense, the work of center half Jack Clarke and goalie Penson was outstanding. Clarke filled in the middle of the field holding the bulwork of the Crimson backfield knit together. The cooperative effort of the fullbacks, Olie Taylor and Bob Harbison, and the goalie prevented innumerable Cadet efforts from succeeding...
Army's football team was not the only undefeated Cadet eleven to go down under a superior Crimson attack Saturday. West Point's soccer aggregation was trampled by the Harvards 1 to 0 on a goal by Mouroe Herskovits in the final quarter...