Navy (U.S. Naval Academy) (Midshipmen, Mids; Navy Blue and Gold)
[Yearly Records]
[Bowls]
[Conference Titles and Top 25 Rankings]
[Major Rivals]
[Coaches]
[Miscellanea]
Bowl Summary
Aloha 1-0; Cotton 1-1; Garden State 0-1; Holiday 1-0; Liberty 0-1; Orange 0-1; Rose 0-0-1; Sugar 1-0
Bowl Record (4-4-1)
Summary of Navy's bowl appearances:
|
Regular Season |
Bowl |
Score |
Opponent |
Record |
|
1923 (5-1-2) |
Rose |
14-14 |
Washington |
(10-1) |
|
1954 (7-2) |
Sugar |
21-0 |
Mississippi |
(9-1) |
|
1957 (8-1-1) |
Cotton |
20-7 |
Rice |
(7-3) |
|
1960 (9-1) |
Orange |
14-21 |
Missouri |
(9-1) |
|
1963 (9-1) |
Cotton |
6-28 |
Texas |
(10-0) |
|
1978 (8-3) |
Holiday |
23-16 |
Brigham Young |
(9-3) |
|
1980 (8-3) |
Garden State |
0-35 |
Houston |
(6-5) |
|
1981 (7-3-1) |
Liberty |
28-31 |
Ohio State |
(8-3) |
|
1996 (8-3) |
Aloha |
42-38 |
California |
(6-5) |
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Conference Titles
None. Won Lambert Trophy in 1943, 1954, 1957, 1960*, 1963.
Top 25 AP & UPI (USA Today/CNN Since 1991) Ranking
List of years Navy was ranked in the top 25 and ranking for that year:
|
1936 18 |
1950 U-19 |
1957 5-6 |
|
1941 10 |
1952 U-17 |
1960 4-6 |
|
1943 4 |
1954 5-5 |
1963 2-2 |
|
1944 4 |
1955 18-20 |
1978 U-17 |
|
1945 3 |
1956 16-19 |
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Major Rivals
Teams with whom Navy has played at least 10 games and overall records against those teams:
|
Air Force |
10-22 |
Johns Hopkins |
9-3 |
Rutgers |
9-5-1 |
|
Army |
45-48-7 |
Lafayette |
8-4 |
St. John's College |
18-3 |
|
Boston College |
11-14 |
Lehigh |
14-6-1 |
Southern Methodist |
4-7 |
|
Bucknell |
9-4-1 |
Maryland |
14-5 |
Syracuse |
8-19 |
|
Columbia |
13-9-1 |
Michigan |
5-12-1 |
Tulane |
5-7-1 |
|
Cornell |
9-1 |
North Carolina |
5-5 |
Villanova |
9-2 |
|
Delaware |
6-5 |
Notre Dame |
9-63-1 |
Virginia |
27-11 |
|
Dickinson |
10-1-4 |
Pennsylvania |
21-22-4 |
Virginia Tech |
7-3 |
|
Duke |
16-11-5 |
Penn State |
17-18-2 |
William & Mary |
35-6-1 |
|
Georgetown |
13-4-2 |
Pittsburgh |
12-20-3 |
Yale |
4-5-1 |
|
Georgia Tech |
9-14 |
Princeton |
12-18-6 |
|
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Coaches
Deans of Navy coaches are Eddie Erdelatz and George Welsh with 9 years each.
- Erdelatz was 50-26-8 for 1950-58 with 2 Lambert Trophy winners and 2 bowl champions.
- Welsh was 55-46-1 for 1973-81 with 3 bowl teams .
Other top records for at least 3 years were by:
- Bill Armstrong, 19-5-1 for 1897-99
- Paul Dashiell, 25-5-4 for 1904-06
- Frank Berrien, 21-5-3 for 1908-10 with 1 unbeaten team
- Doug Howard, 25-7-4 for 1911-14 with 1 unbeaten team
- Gil Dobie, 17-3 for 1917-19
- Bob Folwell, 24-12-2 for 1920-24 with 1 bowl team
- Bill Ingram, 32-13-4 for 1926-30 with 1 unbeaten team
- Swede Larson, 16-8-3 for 1939-41
- Wayne Hardin, 38-22-2 for 1959-64 with 2 Lambert Trophy winners and 2 bowl teams
- Charlie Weatherbie, 29-28 for 1995-99 with 1 bowl champion
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Miscellanea
- First game was tie with Baltimore A.C. 0-0 in 1879 . . .
- 1st win was over Johns Hopkins 8-0 in 1882 . . .
- highest score was over Ursinus 127-0 in 1918 . . .
- highest since W.W. II was over Princeton 65-7 in 1953 . . .
- worst defeat was by Michigan 70-14 in 1976 . . .
- longest unbeaten string of 22 in 1909-12 ended by Lehigh 14-0 . . .
- longest winless string of 15 in 1947-49 broken with win over Princeton 28-7 . . .
- 11-game losing string in 1990-91 broken with win over Army 24-3 . . .
- consensus All-Americans were Bill Dague, E, 1907; Percy Northcroft, T, and Ed Lange, B, 1908; Jack Dalton, B, 1911; John Brown, G, 1913; Lyman Perry, G, and Wolcott Roberts, B, 1918; Wendell Taylor, T, 1922; Frank Wickhorst, T, 1926; Edward Burke, G, 1928; Fred Borries, B, 1934; Don Whitmire, T, 1943-44; Ben Chase, G, and Bob Jenkins, B, 1944; Dick Duden, E, 1945; Ron Beagle, E, 1954-55; Joe Bellino, B, 1960; Roger Staubach, B, 1963; Chet Moeller, DB, 1975; and Napoleon McCallum, RB, 1983, 1985 . . .
- Academic All-Americans were Steve Eisenhauer, G, 1953; Tom Forrestal, QB, 1957; Joe Tranchini, B, 1958; Dan Pike, RB, 1969; and Ted Dumbauld, LB, 1980 . . .
- Heisman Trophy winners were Joe Bellino, HB, 1960; and Roger Staubach, QB, 1963 . . .
- Maxwell Award winners were Ron Beagle, E, 1954; Bob Reifsnyder, T, 1957; Joe Bellino, HB, 1960; and Roger Staubach, QB, 1963 . . .
- Walter Camp Award winners were Joe Bellino, HB, 1960; and Roger Staubach, QB, 1963.
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