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The eggnog riot, sometimes known as the grog mutiny, was a riot that took place at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, on 24–25 December 1826.It was caused by a drunken Christmas party in the north barracks of the academy.
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 Silence is a 1975 made-for-TV movie about James Pelosi, a West Point cadet who was charged in 1971 with cheating on an exam. [1] He remained at West Point but was subjected to "The Silence", a policy that ostracized cadets who broke the Cadet Honor Code.
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More than 70 cadets were accused of cheating on an exam, which a West Point professor calls a national security issue. West Point cadets become senior Army leaders the nation depends on.
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker is a 1994 TV movie about the case. [9] Matter of Honor, a stage play by Michael Chepiga retelling Whittaker's story while at West Point, was produced at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California, in September 2007. [10]
CCNY point shaving scandal – in 1951, more than 30 players at seven schools were implicated in a point shaving scheme that also had connections to organized crime. The scandal was most strongly linked to the City College of New York because several central figures had played on the school's 1949–50 team that won that season's NCAA ...
The United States Military Academy was founded in 1802, through the Military Peace Establishment Act signed into law by President Thomas Jefferson.The legislation served the dual purpose of maintaining a well-trained standing militia at the ready, and of bringing to fruition Jefferson's vision of a national university. [1]