The "Kansas Cyclone"
The 34th US President, Dwight David Eisenhower played football for the United States Military Academy at West Point where he was known as “The Kansas Cyclone” and ran seventy yards in a game against Yale in 1912. A knee injury in his second year ended his football career (but not his military career). Eisenhower went on to coach the Ft Benning Doughboys and during his military career arose to the Rank of General – Supreme Commander of the Allies in Europe during WW II and then later served two terms as President of the United States of America
In 1956, he established the marksman unit in the US Army that often provides keen competitors to the Olympics. They have brought back over 40 medals from those competitions, while acting as a research and improvement unit for the entire US Army. They’re based at Ft Benning, GA.
The distinction of the Ft Benning Doughboys is that the football team in the 1960s was undefeated.
