Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Army is strong on soubriquets, and nowhere does the bearer of an historic nickname fare better than at West Point. Henry E. ("Light Horse Harry"*) Wilson, Army football captain last year and Army football crackerjack the past four years, took both the Edgerton Sabre (for being football captain) and the Army Athletic Association Sabre (for being best all round athlete) at last week's West Point ceremonies. It was the first time that a cadet had won both swords. Some people said that the nickname hypnotized the judges. This was most unjust, for Cadet Wilson outstood in baseball...
...Wilson awards remarkable, especially in the opinion of men who have sported against West Point, was the supremacy of any one "Pointer" over all his fellows in all-round ability. West Pointers must be fit to get in, to stay in. Their life is rigorous, their sports many. That "Light Horse Harry" Wilson outmuscled and outgeneraled his classmates in all things, was, after all, less remarkable than the fact that in all West Point history (the Academy was founded in 1802) no previous captain of "the manliest sport" has clearly outmanned all his contemporaries in other directions...
...Army's current "Light Horse Harry" is going into the Air Corps...
...After "Light Horse Harry" Lee, Revolutionary cavalry general, father of Civil War General Robert E. Lee and no relation to Cadet Wilson...
...Conn., June 15--After the time trial yesterday, the workout for the first two crews was light both this morning and afternoon...