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Soldiers first : duty, honor, country, and football at West Point / Joe Drape.

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New York : Times Books, 2012.

United States Military Academy -- Football -- History.

United States Corps of Cadets -- History.

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http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/909/9780805094909/image/lgcover.9780805094909.jpg

9780805094909 (hbk.)

0805094903 (hbk.)

275 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.

Prologue -- Plebe year -- Yearling year -- Cow year -- Firstie year -- Epilogue.

New York Times sportswriter Joe Drape takes us inside the world of Army football, as the Black Knights and their third-year coach, Rich Ellerson, seek to turn around a program that had recently fallen on hard times, with the goal to beat Navy and "sing last" at the Army-Navy game in December. The football team at the U.S. Military Academy is not like other college football teams. At other schools, athletes are catered to and coddled at every turn. At West Point, they carry the same arduous load as their fellow cadets, shouldering an Ivy League-caliber education and year-round military training. After graduation they are not going to the NFL but to danger zones halfway around the world. These young men are not just football players, they are soldiers first.

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