"As the Twin Towers lay smoldering, Army football faced a not-so-simple question: Do you want to practice on the same day of one of biggest disasters in United States history?
It was up to the players, who had been watching on TV as their lives and careers got turned upside down. The planes flew into the World Trade Center just 50 miles from their campus at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.
This was their first big decision of a post-9/11 world.
"We were the only Division I team to practice that day," recalled former Army quarterback Chad Jenkins."
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/football-amid-war-20-years-later-chad-jenkins-reflects-on-playing-the-army-navy-game-months-after-911/
It was up to the players, who had been watching on TV as their lives and careers got turned upside down. The planes flew into the World Trade Center just 50 miles from their campus at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.
This was their first big decision of a post-9/11 world.
"We were the only Division I team to practice that day," recalled former Army quarterback Chad Jenkins."
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/football-amid-war-20-years-later-chad-jenkins-reflects-on-playing-the-army-navy-game-months-after-911/