Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Though Cagney settles down at the Academy as comfortably as if he were in stir, it takes some feverish scripting to get him there. A down-at-heel Broadway genius, he is hired by a producer ostensibly to stage the cadet corps' annual show, actually to lure the producer's singing nephew (Gordon MacRae) from an Army career to show business. Brass-baiting ex-G.I. Cagney rags the cadets so energetically that the corps makes him a plebe for a while to keep him on a leash-and, of course, to teach him to love West Point...
Army furnished the team's only sophomore, Al Pollard, for fullback, although the six-foot, 190 pounder is not listed as a Cadet starter. End Dan Foldberg and center Elmer Stout were the other West Point representatives...
Last week Hoppy's public, by & large, was still wildly loyal to him. But here & there, kiddie-dissension reared its innocent-looking head. A few children seemed in an uneasy state of transition from cowboys to interplanetary travel as depicted in such programs as Tom Corbett, Space Cadet and Space Patrol Others just seemed to think Hoppy was too darned good for this world...
...comparing Princeton to Army, Jordan said he thought that Princeton's backs were as fast, if not faster than Army's, but that the Cadet ball carriers as harder and didn't go down so easily. He also commented that Army's blocking was cleaner and crisper...
...Black Knights won by a large margin, as was expected, finishing with only 33 points, 54 points ahead of Cornell. Cadet Lewis Davis placed second, with Tiger Al Pittis third. Shea's winning time was 24:54 for the five mile course...