Cadet Life at West Point

by Hugh T. Reed

In this terrible cyclone, the Army.

“FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!”

At the Army-Navy football game, in November, 1908, on Franklin Field, Philadelphia, Pa., during a moment of suspense between cheers, some one started the refrain—Fight! Fight! Fight! Spreading instantaneously through the (West Point) Corps, it was promptly adopted as the Army’s watchword, and throughout the remainder of the game the stands throbbed with the stirring slogan:

Tense is the strain in the stands to-day,—

Six to four, and the army leads!

And, charging in vain ’gainst the line of gray,

The shattered Navy attack recedes.—

For the thought that nerves every Army’s son

Is not the renown of an athlete’s might,