Code Breakers is an
ESPN Original Entertainment TV movie that was first broadcast December 10, 2005 at 9pm ET on
ESPN and
ESPN HD. The movie followed the
Heisman Trophy Presentation.
Synopsis
The movie chronicles the 1951 cheating scandal at
West Point and its impact on
Army's football team, which was forced to cut loose virtually its entire squad. Going into the 1950
Army-Navy Game, Black Knight football was on top of the world. Then they lost to a weak Midshipmen squad, 14-2. Then the Academy and football team were thrown into a tizzy when 90 cadets, including 37 lettering football players, were dismissed in a cheating scandal which broke the Academy’s Honor Code.
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