Soldiers First: Duty, Honor, Country, and Football at West Point

Soldiers First: Duty, Honor, Country, and Football at West PointBestselling author Joe Drape reveals the unique pressures and expectations that make a year of Army football so much more than just a tally of wins and losses. 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 Leaguecaliber education and year round

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knocking the Carlisle great out of the game would bring glory both to the Cadets and to Eisenhower

His work in Green Bay was characterized by a single-minded devotion to the Packers’ success

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He's now tied with Bear Bryant for coach with the most national championships

and development of long- and short-term conditioning programs

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the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN

the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball

and its impact on institutions of higher learning