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The film chronicles the 1951 cheating scandal at West Point and its impact on Army's football team, which was forced to dismiss virtually its entire squad.The film begins going into the 1950 Army–Navy Game, the Cadets football team was heavily favored, yet went on to lose to a weak Midshipmen squad, 14–2.
The 1951 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1951 college football season. Led by head coach Earl Blaik, the team finished with a record of 2–7. The Cadets offense scored 116 points, while the defense allowed 183 points. Army was ranked at No. 89 in the 1951 Litkenhous Ratings. [1]
As a West Point cadet. Harkins was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 15 May 1904, the second of five children of newspaper editor Edward Francis Harkins and May E. Kelly. [2] [3] He decided early on a military career, and enlisted in the Massachusetts National Guard's 110th Cavalry Regiment in 1922, rising to the rank of sergeant and learning skills including horseback riding and polo. [4]
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Several players from that team (as shown here) would later be implicated in the scandal in 1951. The CCNY point-shaving scandal of 1951 was a college basketball point-shaving gambling scandal which revealed widespread bribery and match fixing involving major colleges and universities both in and around New York City, particularly at the Madison ...