The Great Story of Navy Football 2025: From before the beginning of football to the Brian Newberry era Kindle Edition

From before the beginning of football to the Brian Newberry eraThis book is written for those of us who love the US Naval Academy and especially the Navy's Midshipmen Football Team. You’ll like all the stories from the Academy’s founding om Oct 10, 1845 as the Naval School by Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft just over 180 years ago, to the beginning of American football in 1869, to the first Navy football game in 1879... and all through the great Navy football teams of the 20th century to today with a revitalized Navy Football Team under coach Ken Niumatalolo.You will learn that like no other football team, the US Navy Midshipmen are fierce and passionate competitors. From the stadium to the classroom to the research lab, the US Navy Midshipmen always play to win.You will learn that Navy's first official football game was in 1879 even before American football had been completely defined. They tied the Baltimore Athletic Club. It was not until 1890 that Navy played Army. They beat the Army 24-0 in this first game and Army has never forgotten it. Army and Navy have been beating each other up each year ever since 1890 at their annual Army-Navy Game. To both teams a victory against the other in the Army-Navy Game is more important than even a great season.You’ll also learn that First Classman J.H. Robinson was the first to get football going at Navy, but back then it was more like a combo of soccer and rugby and it was used more for training and not for competition. First Classman William John Maxwell is credited with getting the current football program started at Navy. Just one game was played to a 0-0 tie v Baltimore’s Athletic Club in 1889 but over thirteen-hundred-games have been played since.From here, the book moves you one great Navy coach at time through the immortals such as Frank Berrien, Bill Ingram, Paul Dashiell, Doug Howard, Eddie Erdelatz, Wayne Hardin, Paul Johnson, and then on to today’s great coach, Ken Niumatalolo.The history of Navy Football as told here is just fascinating. This book captures the many great moments and the contributions of each of the 38 coaches and standout players such as Navy’s two Heisman winners, Joe Bellino, and Roger Staubach. Of course, there are other greats such as Ed Sprinkle, Bob Hoernschemeyer, Mike Wahle, and Phil McConkey.In this book, we look at every game in every season and we take the reader through great chapters about all the Navy teams with great stories and accounts of 145 seasons worth of great games (1351 games) with many great moments.This book is your finest source for a great read on your favorite service academy college football team (Navy's Midshipmen). It is the closest thing to an all-encompassing, full-blown Navy football encyclopedia-- blow by blow history with tales of the great moments. We capture all the action and all the memorable moments of Navy football. This book is for your reading pleasure, but it also can be a great reference tool for you when you want to see how a particular Navy game in any year happened to turn out.If you are a Navy Football fan. you will not want to put this book down. Read more