The Navy Midshipmen football team represents the United States Naval Academy in NCAA Division I FBS college football. The Naval Academy completed its final season as an FBS independent school in 2014, and became a single-sport member of the American Athletic Conference beginning in the 2015 season. The team is currently coached by Brian Newberry, who was promoted in 2022, following his stint as the Midshipmen defensive coordinator. 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 mascot is Bill the Goat.
The team that won the 1926 national championship
Eddie Erdelatz coached the Midshipmen from 1950 to 1958
QB Roger Staubach (#12) won the Heisman Trophy in 1963. His number was retired by the Midshipmen
Coach Paul Johnson instructs a player during a game against Duke in 2004
College football is gridiron football that is played by teams of amateur student-athletes at universities and colleges. It was through collegiate competition that gridiron football first gained popularity in the United States.
Navy fullback Adam Ballard (#22) rushes while being pursued by Army defenders Cason Shrode (#54) and Taylor Justice (#42) in the 2005 Army–Navy Game, a college football rivalry in the U.S.
The McGill vs. Harvard football game in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1874; Harvard won 3–0.
Walter Camp, the "Father of American Football", then the captain of the Yale University football team, in 1878
A 1902 football game between the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan
