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Proffer is another good word, as in the senator was only too happy to proffer a West Point appointment to the gifted athlete.

Again not a lot of quotable material, but “impetus’ is a good word.

Not a lot of quotable lines, but detritus is a good word.

By 1943 journalists had transformed Army’s team from a squad of football players to representatives of the country’s first line of defense. They were America’s soldier-players

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No matter what modifications coaches devised, at its core the single wing was about power. It trafficked in runs between the tackles and physical man-on-man confrontations. It was an infantryman’s idea of football.

Some trainers drew a line between a player’s being hurt and being injured; the Beaver drew his line between a player’s being hurt and being dead. If a player was dead, he couldn’t play. If he were merely injured, he could.⁴

The author describes one of the plebes as INDOMITABLE. I thought that was a word for the Navy. Since I can’t build a ship around it, I need to build a blog.

First-year “plebes” “could recite those creatures that they outranked: “Sir, the superintendent’s dog, the commandant’s cat, the waiters in the Mess Hall, the Hell cats, and all the admirals in the whole blamed Navy.”

Randy W. Roberts imbues west point with an ominous personality, describing, “The most important buildings are enormous, as if they had been designed to crush any notion of individuality.

How different God is AFTER the realization of our insignificance compared to His glory. CS Lewis says something like He gives us our individually back.

He did not yell at or scold a player in front of his teammates. As he later told one of his fiery assistants who could not contain his emotions, “We just don’t do it that way at West Point. You can’t talk that way to cadets. You can’t drive them that way because they’re being driven all day.”