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The secretaries Cup is a game played between the United States Coast Guard Academy and the United States Merchant Marine Academy
A football rivalry that started in 1949
went on and off up until 1981
From 81 to current present time its been played every year.
It's tradition for the corps of cadets to get behind their teams.
For the administrations of both schools to get together
and have a friendly kind of rivalry administratively
and then a battle on the football field if you will.
You know I like to think of football, the sport of football here
The sacrifice you make, the hard work, the dedication to your team mates
the time restrictions, learning of leadership as part of training to be an officer.
So I would like to say myself and the other football coaches that have been here
Coach Laforte, Coach Grant and Coach Fleischman for the last 15 years
and probably all the way back to the Otto Graham days
and Nelson Nitchman and all that.
It goes back to using the sport of football to help train an officer
Using that part of it just like they learn certain things in calculus or chemistry or up in Chase Hall
with the military or in the summer when they are on their Coast Guard duties
What things does football bring forth in a person that would help them later on in life.
So I feel that is how it fits in. You have to view it as we are training a young man to be an officer.
The corps of cadets look forward to an exciting football game
these games have been very close. They've all, if you look back I think in the last seven or eight years,
they've all went down to the final minute. I think we've won three of the last eight and they've won five.
But I gotta tell you we lost in double overtime, we lost in the last play of the game.
as were our wins. They've all went down to the wire I think with the exception of one.
We have two groups of football players representing two tremendous academies.
and they're all together. The corps of cadets of each academy is all together on the same page.
The whole academy atmosphere at Coast Guard is rallying behind the game
They support it 100 percent but when you have such a great traditional game everyone loves it.