It’s Army vs. Navy time.
With the next affiliate in the alternation set to yield abode Saturday, it’s about time we yield a footfall aback and assay some of the added acute battles the two teams accept been complex in.
Here’s a attending at the top-10 amateur in the Army-Navy rivalry.
10. 2011: Navy 27, Army 21
It was a academic Army-Navy bold with alone 90 yards casual amid the two teams. With the account angry 14-14 traveling into the additional half, Kriss Proctor put the Midshipmen advanced with a two-yard touchdown run.
Malcolm Brown counterbalanced up the account if he affiliated with Trent Steelman for a 25-yard touchdown pass. But Navy pulled advanced for the win in the fourth division acknowledgment to two acreage goals from Jon Teague.
9. 1977: Army 17, Navy 14
In 1977, the Black Knights were searching to arrest yet addition acceptable band by Navy. The Midshipmen had claimed the antecedent four meetings.
Army got off to a abundant alpha afterwards it best off Bob Lesczynski. Quarterback Leamon Hall gave the Black Knights the advance if he affable over the ambition band from the 1-yard band for a touchdown.
John Hilliard best off Lesczynski afterwards that, and again Mike Castelli tacked on a acreage ambition afore Navy assuredly got on the lath with a touchdown. Greg King punched in a hasty touchdown to put Army up 17-7 at halftime.
Navy best up addition touchdown from active aback Joe Gattuso if he scooted into the end zone, but that would be the final account as Army airtight its four-game accident streak.
8. 2000: Navy 30, Army 28
There were 686 yards of breach amid the two teams accumulated in this one.
Curtis Zervic alone threw for 99 yards, but he did bung two touchdowns in the process. He and Joe Gerena anniversary saw time at quarterback for Army, and both threw an interception.
Michael Wallace put the Black Knights on his aback with 159 yards hasty on 19 carries with a touchdown. Navy had its own hasty attack, though, and it was led by Brian Broadwater’s 121 yards hasty with a touchdown.
Broadwater aswell threw a touchdown, but the absolute aberration was a bollix recovered by Brad Wimsatt and alternate to the end area for a Navy touchdown.
7. 2012: Navy 17, Army 13
A scoreless aboriginal division was combatted with 20 credibility in the additional division aback in the 2012 matchup.
Noah Copeland and Trent Steelman both provided their corresponding teams with touchdown runs, and again anniversary aggregation added a acreage ambition to go into halftime angry 10-10.
Eric Osteen put the Black Knights advanced with a acreage ambition in the third quarter, but Keenan Reynolds gave Navy the advance and the bold if he scampered home for a touchdown from eight yards out.
6. 1992: Army 25, Navy 24
The 1992 division was a asperous one for Navy as it entered the antagonism with Army antic a 1-9 record, but it’s consistently a academy akin of acuteness if the Midshipmen go up adjoin the Cadets.
Navy congenital up a 24-7 lead. Rick Roper affiliated up with Gaylord Greene for a 68-yard touchdown canyon for the longest touchdown canyon in the rivalry’s history.
The Cadets apish a bang on the point afterwards touchdown and best up the two-point about-face to accomplish it 24-22. Army got the brawl back, and with 12 abnormal larboard on the clock, Patmon Malcom wrote his name in the history books if he accomplished a 49-yard bang to accord Army the 25-24 win.
5. 1971: Army 24, Navy 23
This is arguably one of the a lot of animating finishes in the Army-Navy history.
Army active aback Bob Hines best up two of his four touchdowns in the bold to advice his aggregation get out to a 16-0 lead.
Quarterback Fred Stuvek brought the Midshipmen aback with a brace of touchdowns through the air. Stuvek again hit Steve Ogden for a 12-yard touchdown canyon to go up 21-16.
Cadets quarterback Kingsley Fink tossed a 3-yard touchdown canyon to Ed Francis afore he absorbed up with John Simar on the two-point about-face to put Army up 24-21. On Navy’s final attack on fourth down, arch drillmaster Rick Forzano adopted not to go for the game-tying acreage goal, and Stuvek’s canyon to Andy Pease was incomplete, sealing the Cadets’ victory.
4. 1989: Navy 19, Army 17
Frank Schenk wasn’t absolutely accustomed the best name for anyone who would become a academy football kicker, but he put it in the aback of his apperception if the Midshipmen alleged aloft him to exhausted Army in 1989.
Navy was abaft 17-16 if Alton Grizzard carefully threw an abridged canyon to Jerry Dawson to stop the alarm with 15 abnormal remaining. Afterwards Army arch drillmaster Jim Young alleged a abeyance with the “ice the kicker” strategy, Schenk stepped up and booted the 32-yard acreage ambition through the uprights.
After the kickoff, Army had seven abnormal to accomplish abracadabra happen, but Bryan McWilliams’ canyon to Sean Jordan was abridged -- abrogation just one additional on the clock. McWilliams pitched to Mike Mayweather for what would accept been an advantage pass, but he was brought down in the backfield, and Schenk was a football hero.
3. 2014: Navy 17, Army 10
It was Army’s about-face to bang aboriginal this time. Xavier Moss put the Black Knights advanced if he alternate a punt to the house. Jamir Tillman counterbalanced it up with a touchdown bolt via Keenan Reynolds.
An Austin Grebe acreage ambition and a Keen Reynolds touchdown later, Navy begin itself up by 10. Dan Grochowski agape a acreage ambition through to attenuated the arrears to seven credibility with beneath than two account to go, but the Midshipmen captivated on for the win.
2. 1998: Army 34, Navy 30
The absorption for this antagonism was directed against a adulterated rail, which burst and afflicted 10 Army cadets and basic academy acceptance as they fell assimilate the field.
Army trailed 30-19 traveling into the fourth quarter, but a 70-yard touchdown run from Ty Amey with 7:33 larboard in the bold put the Black Knights advanced 31-30.
Then the abuse burst and the bold was chock-full for 31 minutes. It was absolutely one of the added arguable capacity to the Army-Navy saga.
1.1994: Army 22, Navy 20
In one of the added absorbing endings, the Black Knights took the 1994 affair on a game-winning acreage ambition from Kurt Heiss.
Although, here’s the article -- pun advised -- about the kicker: he was nearsighted.
"My holder told me it was OK,” Heiss said afterwards the game.
Jim Kubiak threw a 56-yard touchdown to Kevin Hickman to put Navy advanced 20-19, but it was a arguable point afterwards Heiss nailed the 52-yard bang in crisis time.
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