Navy Midshipmen football the national championship based on retroactive rankings by both the William Boand and Deke Houlgate mathematical poll systems. † Co-champions Navy has participated in 23 bowl games, garnering a record of 11–11–1. The Army-Navy Game, played annually on the last weekend of the college football regular season in early December, pits the football teams of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (Army) against the Navy Midshipmen. It is one of the most traditional and enduring rivalries in college football, and is televised every year by CBS. It was in the 1963 Army–Navy game that instant replay made
1874 Harvard vs. McGill football game 1874 Harvard vs. McGill football game The 1874 Harvard vs. McGill football game was the first rugby-style football game played in the United States. The Harvard Crimson played the McGill Redmen on May 15, 1874 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The game used three periods or "games" and ended in a scoreless tie. A Princeton vs. Rutgers football game was played five years earlier in 1869, but under a variation of England's Football Association rules closer to contemporary soccer than American football. On October 20, 1873, representatives from Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Rutgers met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York