The Army-Navy Game Is A Tradition Living On Borrowed Time
by Patrick Hruby from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3A6RE)
In the fall of 1893, Joseph Reeves got some bad news. A midshipman at the United States Naval Academy, he also played for the school's football team, busting wedges and butting heads as an undersized lineman whose nicknames-"billy goat" and "bull"-aptly described his on-field style.