Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Press story (with picture) on good-looking Sheila Daly, teenagers' columnist for the Chicago Tribune and 34 other newspapers, produced, she says, the following reaction : 1 ) Six proposals of marriage, 2) an offer of a date for the Army-Navy football game from a West Point cadet, 3) a score of letters and telegrams on miscellaneous subjects, 4) a visit from a Hollywood representative to discuss a movie about a teen-age girl columnist. Miss Daly thinks that she would like to be technical adviser for that...
Before more than 100 members of the two officers' training corps units, medals were awarded by Dean Bender to: Air Force--Cadet Lt. Col. Donald T. Fox, Jr. '51, Cadet Captain Gerald K. Vogel '50, Cadet First Lieut. Howard D. Allen '50. Cadet First Lieut. Francis A. Lavelle '50, and Cadet First Lieut Roger B. Salomon '50; Field Artillery--Cadet Major Charles R. Heller '50, Cadet Major Leland L. Fellows '51, Cadet Captain Horace L. Bowman '50, and Cadet First Lieut, Arthur M. Clarke...
...Navy's star tackle, Whitmire, was injured in the first quarter against Army, and so it went down through the years. A case can be made against the Cadet elevens of recent years. I somehow feel that the numerous injuries to teams that play Army is not a preconceived plan, but merely a reflection of the dominant Military Academy theme that anything goes as long...
...game last week, the bell on the university chapel clanged without let. At dusk on Big Wednesday, the Clemson Tiger was burned in effigy on the State House steps while alert policemen stood by to prevent free-for-alls. There were precedents for their fears. In 1902, the Clemson cadet corps showed up for the game with drawn bayonets. In 1946 the Great Day splashed over into a riot. This time, except for a few Carolina enthusiasts who lobbed rotten tomatoes and grapefruit rinds at Clemson cars, the partisans were on their good behavior...
...third period Michigan finally discovered a seeming Army weakness-at the guards-and began to roll, scoring one touchdown and threatening another. Then a thin, 155-lb. safety-man, Cadet Tom Brown, played taps for Michigan by intercepting a pass in the end zone in the last six minutes of play. Final score: Army 21, Michigan 7. When Army's team came home to the grey-walled Point, the Cadet corps put on a welcome so thunderous that it almost drowned out an eleven-gun howitzer salute...