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Coronavirus altered the 2020 Army Navy football game. But many traditions survived.

Mystery shrouded a set of “Go Navy, Beat Army” banners that were strung up on Army superintendent Darryl A. Williams’ quarters on Tuesday, days before the 121st Army-Navy football game Saturday at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

The prank couldn’t have been carried out by exchange students, a handful of Naval Academy midshipmen swapped with West Point cadets each semester, as that tradition didn’t happen this fall amid the pandemic.

Typically, around Army-Navy week, Naval Academy plebes commit their class prank. Senior cornerback Cameron Kinley said Monday he heard the plebes got the “green light.