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Navy Midshipmen football

Navy Midshipmen football
2016 Navy Midshipmen football team
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First season 1879
Athletic director Chet Gladchuk
Head coach Ken Niumatalolo
9th year, 77–41 (.653)
Other staff Ivin Jasper (OC)
Dale Pehrson (DC)
Stadium Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium
Seating capacity 34,000
Field surface FieldTurf
Location Annapolis, Maryland
Conference The American
Division West
All-time record 700–549–57 (.558)
Bowl record 10–10–1 (.500)
Claimed nat'l titles 1 (1926)
Heisman winners 2
Consensus All-Americans 23
Current uniform
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Colors Navy Blue and Gold
         
Fight song Anchors Aweigh
Mascot Bill the Goat
Marching band United States Naval Academy Drum and Bugle Corps
Rivals Army Black Knights
Air Force Falcons
Maryland Terrapins
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Website NavySports.com

The Navy Midshipmen football team represents the United States Naval Academy in NCAA Division I FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) college football. The Naval Academy completed its final season as an FBS independent school (not in a conference) in 2014, and became a single-sport member of the American Athletic Conference beginning in the 2015 season. The team has been coached by Ken Niumatalolo since December 2007. Navy has 19 players and three coaches in the College Football Hall of Fame and won the college football national championship in 1926 according to the Boand and Houlgate poll systems. The 1910 team also was undefeated and unscored upon (the lone tie was a 0–0 game). The mascot is Bill the Goat.

The Navy-Army Game, played annually on the last weekend of the college football regular season in early December, pits the football teams of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (Army) against the Navy Midshipmen. It is one of the most traditional and enduring rivalries in college football, and is televised every year by CBS. It was in the 1963 Army–Navy game that instant replay made its television debut.

This game has always had inter-service "bragging rights" at stake; in past decades, when both Army and Navy were often national powers, the game occasionally had national championship implications. However, as top-level college football has developed and grown, the high academic entrance requirements, height and weight limits, and the military commitment required of West Point and Annapolis graduates has reduced the overall competitiveness of both academies in comparison with other football programs.


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