Football

Navy Awarded Commander-In-Chief's Trophy

Courtesy Navysports.com

The 2015 Navy football team visited the White House on Wednesday afternoon and was honored for winning the Commmander-In-Chief’s Trophy for the 10th time in the last 13 years. 
 
The 2015 Navy football season will go down as one of the greatest in school history as the Mids won a school record 11 games against just two defeats, defeated Army and Air Force to win the Commander-In-Chief’s Trophy, tied Houston for the West Division title in the American Athletic Conference and won the Lambert Trophy, which signifies the best team in the East, for the first time since 1963.

 

Navy capped off the season with a 44-28 rout of Pitt in the Military Bowl giving the Mids three-straight bowl wins for the first time in school history.  The Mids finished the year ranked 18th in the country in both theAssociated Press and Coaches polls, which was the highest finish for a Navy team since 1963.
 
Navy’s senior class compiled a 36-16 record (.692), won three Commander-In-Chief’s Trophies and three bowl games during their four years in Annapolis. The 36 wins are tied with the Class of 1909 for the most wins by a class in school history.
 
Senior quarterback Keenan Reynolds won the James E. Sullivan Award, which is given to the nation’s most outstanding amateur athlete, finished fifth in the Heisman Trophy voting, had his number 19 retired by the school and was named a Third-Team All-American by the Associated Press.  Reynolds is the first active Midshipman to have his number retired.
 
Reynolds scored 88 touchdowns in his career (all rushing), which are the most rushing touchdowns in Division I history and the most total touchdowns in FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) history.  He scored three or more touchdowns in a game 17 times in his career, the most in FBS history. He is the first player in FBS history to score 23 or more rushing touchdowns in a season three different times. His 530 career points scored are the most in FBS history.
 
His 4,559 career rushing yards are the most in FBS history by a quarterback and the most in school history by any player. He is just the sixth player in FBS history to rush and pass for 4,000 yards in a career.  His 22 career 100-yard rushing games are the most in school history.
 
Reynolds also set the school record for passing touchdowns with 31, while throwing just eight interceptions in 462 career attempts giving him the lowest interception percentage in school history.  He is the first quarterback in the history of the Army-Navy game to go 4-0.
 
Navy has been the dominant Service Academy over the last decade plus, winning 24 of the last 27 meetings (.888) against Air Force and Army West Point dating back to the 2002 Army-Navy game.