The Army-Navy game is a staple of the college football calendar, an event with few, if any, true peers in American sports culture.
The Black Knights and Midshipmen desperately hope to beat one another — it wouldn’t be a rivalry without those feelings, right? — and over the course of 60 minutes, blood is shed, crushing tackles are made and bones are occasionally broken with the goal of getting some hard-earned bragging rights over the next 12 months. It all ends, though, with a sense of mutual respect between a group of young men who will all eventually leave school to help defend their country.
Such a grand stage often comes with some pretty notable visitors – including even the leader of the free world.
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The President of the United States has been a fan and spectator at Army-Navy games for much of the rivalry’s history, going all the way back to Theodore Roosevelt in 1901.
