Nov 27, 2007 9:07 am US/Eastern
Army-Navy: Brothers, Fighting On The Same Team
BALTIMORE (AP) ―
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Decades ago, the Army-Navy game matched up two of the country's
finest football teams.
There are older rivalries and games that feature more talented players, but no football game elicits more emotion from the participants -- and their followers -- than Army-Navy.
Decades ago, the Army-Navy game matched up two of the country's finest football teams. Navy won the national championship in 1926 and lost only to Notre Dame in 1943; Army won the national championship from 1944-46.
Three Army football players have won the Heisman Trophy; Navy has produced two Heisman winners.
According to legend, the series began when Cadet Dennis Mahan Michie accepted a challenge from the Naval Academy to play a football game. Navy won that game, 24-0, on November 28, 1890, and the teams will meet this Saturday for the 108th time.
The Super Bowl, in contrast, is a just an infant. The players in the Army-Navy game aren't just playing for themselves or their teammates. From San Diego to Iraq, from
Afghanistan to Iran, soldiers at virtually every U.S. military instillation in the world will be watching Saturday's game.
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