Word: crimson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish of "may the best team win" was fulfilled Saturday afternoon, for the 20 to 20 score accurately indicates the margin of supremacy which separates the Harvard and Army football teams. With a record-breaking crowd jammed into every available inch of space within the Stadium, the Crimson and West Point elevens battled to a standstill in a spectacular, savagely-fought clash...
...Harvard's forward passing game which sent it into a 13 to 0 lead in the first half and then snatched almost certain victory from the powerful Cagle-led combination. Pregame reports indicated that the Army line was weak, but the Gold forwards outrushed the Crimson wall, bottling up the University running plays time and again. With six men in the line and two men backing it up closely, the West Pointers smashed the heralded Harvard laterals, but it was the threat of this play which made the Crimson aerials go. Twelve forwards were hurled and seven were completed...
Cagle was the main spring of the Army's startling second-half risorgimento. His amazing slipperiness and strong running carried him over the last Harvard line three times during the afternoon and never could one feel that he would not break loose again. During the first half, the Crimson ends forced him in and the aggressive line dropped him in his tracks, but the meteoric Cadet captain could not be denied once he got under...
...course of West Point history has been admirably recounted in the following story written for the Crimson by Cadet P. H. Lash II of The Pointer staff...
Some of the mysteries of the inner shrine of West Point traditions and customs are revealed in the following article written for the Crimson by Captain I. W. Porter of The Pointer staff...