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Article: The Naval Academy Is Not a Football School
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 31, 1994
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As a 1987 Naval Academy graduate, I read "At Navy, Conflicting
Missions" {front page, May 22} with great interest. The attitude
among both midshipman athletes and officials of the Naval Academy
Athletic Association seems confused about what being a midshipman is
all about and why they are at the Naval Academy. The Naval Academy
is not like civilian colleges or universities. The midshipman
varsity athletes at Annapolis choose to play sports. No one is
dependent on an athletic scholarship to be there.
For midshipmen to say that they have an unfair burden as
varsity football players is nonsense. They could drop their sport
and have plenty of time to study. Of course, as the rest of the ...