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Army-Navy Football Committee
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston MA
Army-Navy Football Committee
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston MA

Army-Navy Football Committee

Founded 1890
The Army–Navy Game is an American college football rivalry game between the Army Black Knights of the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York, and the Navy Midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy (USNA) at Annapolis, Maryland. The Black Knights, or Cadets, and Midshipmen each represent their service's oldest officer commissioning sources. As such, the game has come to embody the spirit of the interservice rivalry of the United States Armed Forces. The game marks the end of the college football regular season and the third and final game of the season's Commander-in-Chief's Trophy series. It has been frequently attended by sitting U.S. presidents. President John F. Kennedy participated in the coin toss for the Army-Navy Game on December 1, 1962.