Word: pointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seasons saw no meeting between Harvard and West Point, but the rivalry came to a temporary conclusion with the 1909 and 1910 clashes. The Crimson triumphed in both of these, taking the first by a 9 to 0 score and the letter...
...football games today are really easy ones to predict, but with this bump still on my head I have to be pretty careful about how much I think. Of course I'll get the winners right but I might miss up a point or so on one or two of the scores, so you better haul right out of those pools and wait until next week. By the way, I wish every one would stop writing me for the scores early in the week. I've got an agreement with most of the coaches not to give them out before...
...Those are practically the first words to come to a Plebe's ear when he enters West Point. He looks around to see if he is the one being called, and nine chances out of ten, he does not look in vain. For all during the Fourth Class Year, from the minute he enters until the last company has passed in review at Graduation Parade, the Plebe hears the old cry, "You man!" I still have a tendency to stop when I hear some upperclassman call in this fashion...
...first two months after entering were given to strict training in military lines and in the customs of West Point. We drilled, we heard lectures, we had unofficial talks by those over us, we asked questions, and gradually we learned. We were learning to take it and like it. Our little world was no longer strange...
...Ahmy...! When Ah was a little kid no biggah than that down home in Gawgia. Ah simply adoahed policemen, the way they went 'stridin' about in brass buttons, and stripes, and an H. Sebastian Gawd sorta air...Ah reckon that's why Ah fell so hard down at the Point...Did Ah fall?...Boy, the lines they shoot down theah would win any ole wah ovah night...Oooooah, did he drop the ball?...and he looks so sweet in his helmet too...Ah'm so sorry, won't out side win now? But you know they simply eat lines...