U.S. Military Academy Army West Point Cadets 8-3 vs U.S. Naval Academy Navy Midshipmen 3-8 (3-5 AAC)
Saturday 11 December 2021, 1500 EST
MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford NJ

TV: CBS
Online: https://www.paramountplus.com/
Play-by-Play: Brad Nessler, Analyst: Gary Danielson, Sideline: Jamie Erdahl
• ESPN College GameDay will broadcast live from MetLife Stadium from 9:00 am to 12 noon with Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Desmond Howard, David Pollack, Gene Wojciechowski, Jen Lada and Chris Fallica.
• CBS Sports Network will air Inside College Football: Army-Navy March-On presented by USAA from 12:00-1:30 pm and Inside College Football: Army-Navy Tailgate presented by USAA from 1:30-2:30 pm. Hosts Brent Stover and Tina Cervasio-McKearney, along with analysts Randy Cross, Houston Nutt and Kevin Carter will cover all of the sights and sounds of the pregame festivities from MetLife Stadium.
• CBS Sports will also air its studio pregame, halftime and postgame coverage live from inside the stadium. Coverage on CBS will begin at 2:30 pm with College Football Today. Adam Zucker, Brian Jones and Rick Neuheisel will count down to kickoff, previewing the action and setting the stage for America’s Game.

Radio (National): WESTWOOD ONE
Play-by-Play: John Sadak, Analyst: Ross Tucker, Sideline: Tina Cervasio-McKearney

Radio (Navy Radio Network)
Play-by-Play: Pete Medhurst, Analyst: Joe Miller, Sideline: Keith Mills, Studio: Scott Wykoff, Pregame Commentary: John Feinstein
• Satellite: Sirius 81, XM 81, SXM App 81
• WBAL 1090 AM / 101.5 FM (Baltimore)
• WFED 820 AM / 94.3 FM (Frederick, Md.)
• WFED 1500 AM (Washington, D.C.)
• WFED 104.5 FM (W. Fairfax / Loudon, Va.)
• WNAV 1430 AM / 99.9 FM (Annapolis)
• WBQH 93.5 FM (Washington, D.C.)
• WJBT 100.3 FM (Jacksonville)
• KWFN 97.3 FM (San Diego)
• WGH 1310 AM / 100.9 FM / 97.3 HD2-3 (Norfolk)

OPENING KICK
• Army and Navy meet for the 122nd time in series history and for the sixth time in New Jersey (fifth time in East Rutherford, plus a 1905 matchup in Princeton, NJ) when the two square off on Saturday afternoon (3:00 pm) at MetLife Stadium (82,500). The Army-Navy Game presented by USAA is the eighth-most played rivalry in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
• Navy leads the all-time series against Army 61-53-7 and is 3-1 against the Black Knights in games played at the Meadowlands Complex. Navy has won the last two games played in New Jersey by a combined score of 97-19 (58-12 in 2002, 39-7 in 1997).
• While Navy cannot win the Commander-In-Chief’s Trophy, the Mids can prevent Army from winning it with a victory over the Black Knights. The last time the three schools went 1-1 against one another was in 1993 when Navy beat Air Force, Air Force beat Army and Army beat Navy. The last time Air Force beat Navy, Army beat Air Force and Navy beat Army was in 1980. That same scenario also played out in 1974 and 1976.
• Navy is 9-1 this year against Army in all sports: 1-0 in men’s golf, men’s soccer, women’s cross country, men’s cross country and women’s soccer, 2-0 in sprint football and 2-1 in women’s volleyball. Army and Navy meet in men’s and women’s swimming on Thursday, Dec. 9 in Annapolis leading up to the football game.
• With nine wins, Navy’s Ken Niumatalolo is the winningest coach in the history of the Army-Navy game. College Football Hall of Famer and former Army coach Col. Earl “Red” Blaik is second with eight.
• Navy’s 12 opponents this year are a combined 89-45 (.664), which is the third toughest schedule in the country based on opponent winning percentage (does not include games against Navy).
• The ELO strength of schedule rankings by WarrenNolan.com also has Navy’s schedule as the third toughest in the country behind Indiana and Georgia Tech.
• The Mids have faced three teams currently ranked in the Associated Press Top 25, including two in the top 5 - Cincinnati (#4), Notre Dame (#5) and Houston (#21).
• Eleven of Navy’s 12 opponents are going to a bowl game, which is the most in the country. Among those 11 opponents is American Athletic Conference foe Cincinnati, who is in the College Football Playoffs. No team played the Bearcats closer than Navy, who lost to Cincinnati 27-20 on Oct. 23 in Annapolis.
• Niumatalolo is the eighth-longest tenured coach in the FBS.
• Navy is fielding one of its youngest teams in recent memory. The Mids have 2 freshmen and 10 sophomores on the offensive depth chart and 8 freshmen and 10 sophomores on the defensive depth chart (10 freshmen and 20 sophomores combined). Navy is starting 9 freshmen on the kickoff return team, including Maquel Haywood who is averaging a school-record 36.1 yards per return.
• Due to injuries, Navy has had to start 9 different combinations along the offensive line in its 11 games and has started 5 different offensive tackles, 5 different offensive guards and 3 different centers.

COMMANDER IN CHIEF'S TROPHY
• The Commander-In-Chief’s Trophy is presented annually to the winner of the football competition among the three major service academies — Army, Navy and Air Force — and is named in honor of the President of the United States.
• Navy has won the trophy 11 of the last 18 years and has won 27 of the last 38 Service Academy games against Air Force and Army.
• Navy has won the trophy a total of 16 times in school history: 1973, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1981, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2019.
• When there is no clear-cut winner, the trophy remains with the winner of the previous year’s competition. The last time that happened was 1993.
• The three-sided trophy stands two-and-a-half-feet tall and is engraved with the academy seals. Reproductions of the three mascots — the Army Mule, the Navy Goat and the Air Force Falcon — are ensconced on the respective sides of this bauble. The trophy is sponsored by the West Point Association of Graduates, the Naval Academy Alumni Association and the Air Force Association of Graduates.
• The year in which the trophy is won is engraved on a plate gracing the respective academy’s side of the trophy.

REMEMBERING NAVY GRADS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES ON 9/11
• This year marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Fourteen Naval Academy graduates perished in the terror attacks that day. Ground zero is just 11 miles from MetLife Stadium.
Name Location Name Location
Capt. Charles Burlingame III ‘71 Pilot on Flight 77
Kevin Connors ‘69 World Trade Center
Capt. Gerald DeConto ‘79 Pentagon
Capt. Robert Dolan Jr. ‘81 Pentagon
Cmdr. William Donovan Jr. ‘86 Pentagon
Cmdr. Patrick Dunn ‘85 Pentagon
Rear Adm. Wilson “Buddy” Flagg ‘61 Passenger on Flight 77
Kenneth McBrayer ‘74 World Trade Center
Michael McGinty ‘81 World Trade Center
Lt. Jonas Panik ‘97 Pentagon
Lt. Darin Pontell ‘98 Pentagon
Lt. Cmdr. Ronald Vauk ‘87 Pentagon
Kenneth Waldie ‘78 Passenger on Flight 11
Capt. John Yamnicky Sr. ‘52 Passenger on Flight 77

GAME DAY FESTIVITIES
• The march-on of the Brigade of Midshipmen will take place at 12:10 pm, followed by the march-on of the Corps of Cadets at 12:40 pm.
• The Service Academy exhange of Midshipmen and Cadets who are spending the semester as their rival school will take place at 2:45 pm.
• Weather permitting, the Golden Knights and Leap Frogs will jump at 2:48 pm.
• The National Anthem will take place at 3:01 pm and will be sung by the glee clubs from both institutions.
• The Navy flyover will take place at 3:05 pm. The flyover will feature four Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornets from the “Ragin’ Bulls” of Strike Fighter Squadron THREE SEVEN and the “Blacklions” of Strike Fighter Squadron TWO ONE THREE based out of Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Va. Piloting the lead aircraft will be Cmdr. Patrick Bookey, USNA Class of 2003. The wing aircraft will be piloted by Lt. Cmdr. Andrea Lazzaro, Class of 2010, Lt. Cmdr. William Craven, Class of 2011, Lt. Cmdr. Jayson Trembath, Class of 2007 and Lt. Mikaela Sakach, Class of 2017. Providing ground support will be Cmdr. Mike Tremel, USNA Class of 2004, Lt. Cmdr. Ryan Moore, Class of 2009, Lt. Cmdr. Andrew Wilkening and Lt. Natalie Sava, Class of 2018. The Ragin’ Bulls and Blacklions are two of the Navy’s premier strike fighter squadrons. The squadrons’ mission, as part of the Carrier Air Wing, is to serve as the tip of the sword for the carrier fleet to include air superiority, strike, maritime superiority, and close air support in defense of our nation’s interests.
• Kickoff is tentatively set for 3:10 pm.
• Following the game, the alma mater of the losing team will be played with both teams standing at attention, followed by the alma mater of the winning team. It is the greatest tradition in all of sports.

SCOUTING ARMY
8-3 Overall | Independent
Head Coach: Jeff Monken
• Army enters the contest on a four-game winning streak, beating Air Force (21-14 OT), Bucknell (63-10), UMass (33- 17) and Liberty (31-16).
• Army is led by fifth-year quarterback Christian Anderson, who has rushed for 519 yards and 6 touchdowns while completing 21 of his 44 pass attempts for 545 yards and 5 touchdowns.
• Sophomore running back Tyrell Robinson leads Army in rushing with 582 yards and 3 touchdowns on just 59 carries (9.9 yds/carry). Bruising junior fullback Jakobi Buchanan has 11 rushing touchdowns and has 111 carries for 412 yards, while fourth-year junior quarterback Tyhier Tyler has rushed for 470 yards and 7 touchdowns.
• Sophomore wide receiver Isaiah Alston is Army’s leading receiver with 18 catches for 384 yards and 3 touchdowns, while Robinson has 9 catches for 268 yards and 3 touchdowns.
• The Army defense is led by senior linebacker Arik Smith (66 tackles, 9 tackles for loss, 2 sacks), junior outside linebacker Andre Carter (35 tackles, 15 tackles for loss, 13.5 sacks), junior defensive back Marquel Broughton (59 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, 2 interceptions, 5 pass breakups) and third-year sophomore corner Jabari Moore (35 tackles, 2 interceptions, 6 pass breakups).
• Zach Harding is averaging 44.3 yards per punt, while kicker Cole Talley is 5-7 on field goals and 40-42 on extra points.

YOUTH IS SERVED
• Navy is fielding one of its youngest teams in recent memory. The Mids have 2 freshmen and 10 sophomores on the offensive depth chart and 8 freshmen and 10 sophomores on the defensive depth chart (10 freshmen and 20 sophomores combined).
• Those numbers do not include a sophomore kickoff specialist, a freshman long snapper, a freshman punter and a freshman kickoff return specialist. Navy starts 9 freshmen on the kickoff return team.
• As a reminder, Navy is not allowed to redshirt, so those are all true freshmen and sophomores.

NAVY NOTABLE INJURIES
Out For The Year
• Starting safety Mitch West (knee)
• Starting left tackle Jake Cossavella (leg)
• Starting free safety Kevin Brennan (shoulder)
• Second-team wide receiver Marcell Gleaton (knee)
• Second-team safety Derek Atwaters (knee)
• Second-team safety Ajani Cuevas-Gillis (shoulder)
Questionable
• Second-team center Luke Coleman (knee)
• Starting linebacker Will Harbour (shoulder)
• Starting guard Josh Pena (ankle)
• Starting center Darrellson Masaniai (head)
• Starting guard Lirion Murtezi (ankle)

FIRST-TIME STARTERS: 21 Navy players have earned their first-collegiate start this season. Navy has had at least one player make their first-career start in 9 of its 11 games.
NAVY’S GAME-BY-GAME FIRST-TIME STARTERS
MARSHALL (8): Carlinos Acie (SB), Nick Bernacchi (OG), Jake Cossavella (OT), Tai Lavatai (QB), Joshua Pena (OG), Isaac Ruoss (FB), Jacob Busic (DE), and Will Harbour (LB)
AIR FORCE (1): James Harris II (FB)
HOUSTON (3): Luke Coleman ©, Jayden Umbarger (WR), Xavier McDonald (Striker)
UCF (3): Darrellson Masaniai ©, Tyler Fletcher (Striker), and Marcus Moore (FS)
SMU (1): Sam Glover (OT)
CINCINNATI (1): Rayuan Lane (FS)
TULSA (1): Lirion Murtezi (OG)
EAST CAROLINA (2): Cal Long (WR), Jamie Romo (OT)
TEMPLE (1): Colin Ramos (LB)

NAVY ONE OF THE TOP 10 SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTRY IN GRADUATING STUDENT-ATHLETES
• The Naval Academy is once again one of the top 10 schools in the country for graduating NCAA student-athletes.
• Navy’s graduation success rate of 95 percent is tied for 10th in the country among schools that sponsor FBS football and is tops in the American Athletic Conference, as well as among Service Academies.
• The graduation success rate measures those student-athletes that were enrolled from 2011-14 and graduated within 6 years.

SENIORS RECEIVE SERVICE ASSIGNMENTS
• The 25 seniors on the Navy football team received their service assignments on Nov. 18.
• 14 seniors will be commissioned Ensigns in the Navy, while 11 will be commissioned 2nd Lieutenants in the United States Marine Corps upon graduation in May.
Carlinos Acie: Surface Warfare
Pierce Banbury: Information Professional
Nick Bernacchi: Submarines (Nuclear)
Kevin Brennan: Marine Corps Ground
Mattie Conlon: Surface Warfare
Mychal Cooper: Surface Warfare
Diego Fagot: Marine Corps Ground
Ben Fee: Naval Flight Officer
Marcell Gleaton: Marine Corps Ground
Jamal Glenn: Surface Warfare
Tyger Goslin: Marine Corps Ground
James Harris II: Surface Warfare
Mitchell Johns: Marine Corps Ground
John Kelly III: Marine Corps Ground
Cal Long: Marine Corps Ground
Michael McMorris: Surface Warfare
Chike Otaluka: Surface Warfare
Isaac Ruoss: Marine Corps Pilot
Michael Salisbury: Naval Officer
Daniel Taylor: Navy Pilot
Bryce Texeira: Submarines (Nuclear)
Chance Warren: Navy Pilot
J’arius Warren: Marine Corps Ground
Mitchell West: Marine Corps Ground
Deondrae Williams: Marine Corps Ground

Good video.
Win first
Sing Second.

(12-09-2021 04:21 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  U.S. Military Academy Army West Point Cadets 8-3 vs U.S. Naval Academy Navy Midshipmen 3-8 (3-5 AAC)
Saturday 11 December 2021, 1500 EST
MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford NJ

TV: CBS
Online: https://www.paramountplus.com/
Play-by-Play: Brad Nessler, Analyst: Gary Danielson, Sideline: Jamie Erdahl
• ESPN College GameDay will broadcast live from MetLife Stadium from 9:00 am to 12 noon with Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Desmond Howard, David Pollack, Gene Wojciechowski, Jen Lada and Chris Fallica.
• CBS Sports Network will air Inside College Football: Army-Navy March-On presented by USAA from 12:00-1:30 pm and Inside College Football: Army-Navy Tailgate presented by USAA from 1:30-2:30 pm. Hosts Brent Stover and Tina Cervasio-McKearney, along with analysts Randy Cross, Houston Nutt and Kevin Carter will cover all of the sights and sounds of the pregame festivities from MetLife Stadium.
• CBS Sports will also air its studio pregame, halftime and postgame coverage live from inside the stadium. Coverage on CBS will begin at 2:30 pm with College Football Today. Adam Zucker, Brian Jones and Rick Neuheisel will count down to kickoff, previewing the action and setting the stage for America’s Game.

Radio (National): WESTWOOD ONE
Play-by-Play: John Sadak, Analyst: Ross Tucker, Sideline: Tina Cervasio-McKearney

Radio (Navy Radio Network)
Play-by-Play: Pete Medhurst, Analyst: Joe Miller, Sideline: Keith Mills, Studio: Scott Wykoff, Pregame Commentary: John Feinstein
• Satellite: Sirius 81, XM 81, SXM App 81
• WBAL 1090 AM / 101.5 FM (Baltimore)
• WFED 820 AM / 94.3 FM (Frederick, Md.)
• WFED 1500 AM (Washington, D.C.)
• WFED 104.5 FM (W. Fairfax / Loudon, Va.)
• WNAV 1430 AM / 99.9 FM (Annapolis)
• WBQH 93.5 FM (Washington, D.C.)
• WJBT 100.3 FM (Jacksonville)
• KWFN 97.3 FM (San Diego)
• WGH 1310 AM / 100.9 FM / 97.3 HD2-3 (Norfolk)

OPENING KICK
• Army and Navy meet for the 122nd time in series history and for the sixth time in New Jersey (fifth time in East Rutherford, plus a 1905 matchup in Princeton, NJ) when the two square off on Saturday afternoon (3:00 pm) at MetLife Stadium (82,500). The Army-Navy Game presented by USAA is the eighth-most played rivalry in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
• Navy leads the all-time series against Army 61-53-7 and is 3-1 against the Black Knights in games played at the Meadowlands Complex. Navy has won the last two games played in New Jersey by a combined score of 97-19 (58-12 in 2002, 39-7 in 1997).
• While Navy cannot win the Commander-In-Chief’s Trophy, the Mids can prevent Army from winning it with a victory over the Black Knights. The last time the three schools went 1-1 against one another was in 1993 when Navy beat Air Force, Air Force beat Army and Army beat Navy. The last time Air Force beat Navy, Army beat Air Force and Navy beat Army was in 1980. That same scenario also played out in 1974 and 1976.
• Navy is 9-1 this year against Army in all sports: 1-0 in men’s golf, men’s soccer, women’s cross country, men’s cross country and women’s soccer, 2-0 in sprint football and 2-1 in women’s volleyball. Army and Navy meet in men’s and women’s swimming on Thursday, Dec. 9 in Annapolis leading up to the football game.
• With nine wins, Navy’s Ken Niumatalolo is the winningest coach in the history of the Army-Navy game. College Football Hall of Famer and former Army coach Col. Earl “Red” Blaik is second with eight.
• Navy’s 12 opponents this year are a combined 89-45 (.664), which is the third toughest schedule in the country based on opponent winning percentage (does not include games against Navy).
• The ELO strength of schedule rankings by WarrenNolan.com also has Navy’s schedule as the third toughest in the country behind Indiana and Georgia Tech.
• The Mids have faced three teams currently ranked in the Associated Press Top 25, including two in the top 5 - Cincinnati (#4), Notre Dame (#5) and Houston (#21).
• Eleven of Navy’s 12 opponents are going to a bowl game, which is the most in the country. Among those 11 opponents is American Athletic Conference foe Cincinnati, who is in the College Football Playoffs. No team played the Bearcats closer than Navy, who lost to Cincinnati 27-20 on Oct. 23 in Annapolis.
• Niumatalolo is the eighth-longest tenured coach in the FBS.
• Navy is fielding one of its youngest teams in recent memory. The Mids have 2 freshmen and 10 sophomores on the offensive depth chart and 8 freshmen and 10 sophomores on the defensive depth chart (10 freshmen and 20 sophomores combined). Navy is starting 9 freshmen on the kickoff return team, including Maquel Haywood who is averaging a school-record 36.1 yards per return.
• Due to injuries, Navy has had to start 9 different combinations along the offensive line in its 11 games and has started 5 different offensive tackles, 5 different offensive guards and 3 different centers.

Make that 11-1

33 in a row
31 in a row

PLAYING AGAINST OR IN THE HOME STATE
• Navy has five players on its roster from the state of New York and five more from New Jersey.
• Players on the depth chart from New York include secondteam sophomore quarterback Xavier Arline (Wading River), second-team senior offensive tackle Mattie Conlon (The Bronx), second-team senior raider John Kelly III (Staten Island) and third-team junior offensive tackle Joseph Petti (Yonkers).
• Players on the depth chart from New Jersey include starting safety and team captain Kevin Brennan (Westfield), who is out for the year with an injury, third-team junior quarterback Maasai Maynor (North Brunswick), starting freshman linebacker Colin Ramos (Wayne) and second-team junior wide receiver Mark Walker (Paterson).

Other than USF games, this is my favorite of the year. Go Navy, Beat Army!

Hockey is a club sport at Navy, so I don't think it adds to the 11-1 count.

But it's ALWAYS good to Beat Army. Every day.

(12-11-2021 08:10 AM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  

Hockey is a club sport at Navy, so I don't think it adds to the 11-1 count.

But it's ALWAYS good to Beat Army. Every day.

This is true.

(12-11-2021 08:28 AM)Vonz90 Wrote:  

(12-11-2021 08:10 AM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  

Hockey is a club sport at Navy, so I don't think it adds to the 11-1 count.

But it's ALWAYS good to Beat Army. Every day.

This is true.

I have been searching for this result all morning. SO GLAD TO SEE the big W.

2 games I don't root for my conference mate, UC and Army.

Go pound them Army!

A touchdown seems like a lot for this game, no?

22 yrs Army Vet.

Navy wins the toss and defers.

I am unlikely to post much here during the game...

Go Navy!
BEAT ARMY!!!