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Obama presents Air Force Academy football team with trophy at White House

Xinhua, May 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

President Barack Obama presented the Commander-in-Chief trophy to the U.S. Air Force Academy football team at the White House here on Thursday.

"All told, it is a record 19 times that they have earned this unreasonably large trophy," Obama said. "But if anybody can figure out how to get this thing to where it needs to go, it is the Air Force."

Air Force defeated both Army and Navy to win a record 19th Commander-in-Chief's Trophy title and its third in the last five years.

Obama also praised the Air Force Falcons for having the highest graduation rate in the conference and for their more than 500 hours of community service.

The president presents the trophy annually to the military service academy with the best record in a round-robin competition. Endite