Army Black Knights football
Army is a Division I Football Bowl Subdivision member of the NCAA. The Black Knights are coached by Jeff Monken who is in his sixth season as head coach. Army is a five-time national champion, winning the title in 1914, 1916, and from 1944 to 1946. Three players from Army have won the Heisman Trophy: Doc Blanchard, Glenn Davis, and Pete Dawkins.
About Army Black Knights football in brief
Army is a Division I Football Bowl Subdivision member of the NCAA. The Black Knights are coached by Jeff Monken who is in his sixth season as head coach. Army is a five-time national champion, winning the title in 1914, 1916, and from 1944 to 1946. Three players from Army have won the Heisman Trophy: Doc Blanchard, Glenn Davis, and Pete Dawkins. The three major service academies—Air Force, Army, and Navy—compete for the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy, which is awarded to the academy that defeats the others in football that year. The 2016 Army–Navy Game marked Army’s first recent win after fourteen consecutive losses to Navy. The football team plays its home games at Michie Stadium, where the playing field is named after Earl Blaik. The team reached its pinnacle of success during the Second World War when Army won three consecutive national championships in 1944, 1945 and 1946.
For many years, Army teams were known as the \”Cadets. \” In the 1940s, several papers called the football team \”the Black Knights of the Hudson. \” From then on, the team was officially nicknamed the Black Knights until 1999. Army has played in eight bowl games. They have a record of 6–2. The Army has won the Lambert Trophy eight times; seven times under legendary head coach Earl ‘Red’ Blaikk in the 1940’s and 1950s, and most recently in 2018 under head coach JeffMonken. The Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy is an annual award given to the best team in the East in Division I FBS college football and is presented by the Metropolitan New York Football Writers. Army’s football program was a member of Conference USA from 1998 to 2004, but starting with the 2005 season Army reverted to its former independent status.
You want to know more about Army Black Knights football?
This page is based on the article Army Black Knights football published in Wikipedia (as of Dec. 14, 2020) and was automatically summarized using artificial intelligence.
