In what is being recalled as the largest peacetime troop movement of its time, retired U.S. Army Lt. COL Rolfe G. Arnhym successfully transferred more than 10,000 officers, men, cadets,midshipmen, relatives, supporters and officials when he conceived andexecuted the first relocation of the Army-Navy football game across the nation from Philadelphia to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA.
In his new book, "Start Everything Finish Nothing: The curse of modern management," Arnhym documents for the first time a full case study of the inaugural movement of the Army-Navy game out of Philadelphia in 1983 – a tradition that continues to this day when the game is played in a venue outside Philadelphia every five years.
"It had never been done before," commented Arnhym, a 1953 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY. "But, as military officers are taught, that did not mean it could not be done. So, we did it." Read More