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...recall with a good deal of pleasure the football games during my cadet days, between Harvard and West Point. In those days Harvard was always the visiting team, since the cadet team and the Corps left their home grounds only for the annual struggle with the Navy. We were always sure of a clean, sportsman-like contest, and the games with Harvard were close enough to be intensely exciting, but with the edge usually, I must confess, on the side of the Crimson...
...however, every cadet, in addition to the compulsory course in calisthenics, gymnastics, riding, etc., is also required to participate a certain number of times during the year in each of the major sports such as football, baseball, soccer. Attendance is by cadet company, the companies participating en masse and taking turns at each of the sports included in the schedule. Participation in polo, golf, tennis and other minor sports is optional, but for those volunteering for these sports competent coaches and instructors are furnished to teach correct principles and methods...
...fact I suspect every generation in its later days so regards the period of its ascendancy. For instance, there is the classic of the early days of the Military Academy when the Commandant of Cadets was reported to the Superintendent for throwing stones at the Corps of Cadets. I don't know whether cadets ever had to resort to the expedient of attaching the remains of their meat course to the underside of the mess tables with their forks, for use at a later and perhaps less bountiful meal, but it was certainly true, even in my own day, that...
...perhaps cadets never heated their cannon-balls before rolling them, but roll them they certainly did down the iron stairways of cadet barracks to the accompaniment of bucketfuls of stone poured from the upper story windows upon the tin roofs of the porches below. And though I recall no instance of a skunk being placed in the desk of a West Point professor, there is an authentic story to the effect that the superintendent's cow was once hoisted to the top of the tower of the old Academic Building and left there in the night to moo--out hours...
Both the Harvard and Cadet squads will make use of the Stadium this afternoon for a brief session of signal practice. The Crimson cohorts will work out from 3 to 3.30 o'clock, when the West Point players will test the Stadium turf. The Army lineup which is expected to start tomorrow follows l.e., Carlmark: l.t., Price: l.g., Humber: c., Miller: r.g., Hillsinger: r.t., Perry: r.e., Messinger: q.b., Gibner: l.h.b. O'Keefe: r.h.b., Cagle: f.b., Murrell...