LTC Arnold Tucker, USMA 1947, and former UM and Army star, was recently inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame. He played at Miami High and was a legend there. He won the Sullivan Award as the nation's best amateur athlete in 1947. He is at home in South Dade holding the football they sent him.
MAY 20th, 1873! Auspicious day! From the deck of the little ferry-boat that steamed its way across from Garrison's on that eventful afternoon I viewed the hills about West Point, her stone structures perched thereon, thus rising still higher, as if providing access to the very pinnacle of fame, and shuddered. With my mind full of the horrors of the treatment of all former cadets of color, and the dread of inevitable ostracism, I approached tremblingly yet confidently.
First African American graduate,
Henry O. Flipper, USMA 187
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