SOCIAL MEDIA: #GONAVY #BEATARMY Twitter .............................. @NavyAthletics and @NavyFB 2021 NAVY FOOTBALL Facebook .......................................................NavyAthletics Instagram ......................... @NavyAthletics and @NavyFB PRESEASON NOTES NAVY SCHEDULE NAVY’S PRESEASON PRACTICE SCHEDULE 0-0 / 0-0 AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE Day Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Monday 8-9 4:10 pm (shells) 8-16 4:10 pm Date Opponent Time / Result TV Tuesday 8-10 4:10 pm (shells) 8-17 4:10 pm (pads) 9-4 Marshall 3:30 pm CBS SN Wednesday 8-11 4:10 pm (shells) 8-18 4:10 pm (shells) 9-11 Air Force 3:30 pm CBS Thursday 8-5 Players Report 8-12 4:10 pm (pads) 8-19 4:00 pm (shells) 9-25 at Houston + TBA TBA Friday 8-6 4:10 pm 8-13 4:10 pm 8-20 4:00 pm + Closed 10-2 UCF + 3:30 pm CBS SN Saturday 8-7 4:10 pm 8-14 9:30 am (pads) + 8-21 Off 10-9 SMU + 3:30 pm CBS SN Sunday 8-8 Off 8-15 Off 8-22 Off 10-14 at Memphis + 7:30 pm ESPN + at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium 10-23 Cincinnati + 12:00 pm TBA 10-29 at Tulsa + 7:30 pm ESPN2 • 14th-year Navy head football coach Ken Niumatalolo will open the 2021 season when the Midshipmen report for fall camp on 11-6 at Notre Dame 3:30 pm NBC Thursday, Aug. 5, and will hold their first practice on Friday, Aug. 6. 11-20 East Carolina + 3:30 pm CBS SN • Media Day / Fan Fest is set for Saturday, Aug. 7 at 10:00 am at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. 11-27 at Temple + TBA TBA • The annual Blue & Gold BBQ will take place on Saturday, Aug. 14. Practice starts at 9:30 am and the BBQ at 11:30 am. 12-4 AAC Championship Game TBA ABC • The Brigade of Midshipmen will return to the Academy on Thursday, Aug. 19 with its first day of classes set for Monday, Aug. 23. 12-11 vs. Army ^ 3:00 pm CBS • Navy will resume its normal Monday-Friday practice schedule on Monday, Aug. 23, practicing daily from 4-6 pm. That is also the Schedule subject to change // All times Eastern first day the plebes will be available for interviews. + American Athletic Conference Opponent ^ played at MetLife Stadium (East Rutherford, N.J.) • Navy will kick off the 2021 campaign on Saturday, Sept. 4 when it plays host to Marshall. NAVY COACHING STAFF MIDS BITS • Head coach Ken Niumatalolo earned his 100th-career vic- Ken Niumatalolo, Head Coach S • Senior safety Kevin Brennan, senior wide receiver Mychal tory last year when the Mids defeated Temple in Annapolis Cooper, senior linebacker Diego Fagot and senior slot on Oct. 10. He is the 24th active coach with 100-career wins Ivin Jasper, Offensive Coordinator, Quarterbacks S/PB back Chance Warren have been selected as team captains and just the sixth active coach to achieve it at one school. Joe DuPaix, Slot Backs S for the 2021 season. • Navy is 42-28 (.600) in the Niumatalolo era (2008-present) Ashley Ingram, O-Line / Running Game Coordinator S • Cooper was also chosen to serve as the Captain of the in one-score games (8 points or less), including 3-1 (.750) Jason MacDonald, Fullbacks S Captains by a vote of the team captains of all 33 of Navy’s in 2020. Danny O’Rourke, O-Line / Special Teams PB varsity sports. It’s the second time in three years that a foot- • On May 12, Robert Green was elevated from defensive Billy Ray Stutzmann, Offensive Assistant PB ball player has been selected. Ford Higgins was the Captain assistant to cornerbacks coach, while Joe Coniglio was Mick Yokitis, Wide Receivers S of the Captains for the 2019-20 academic year. hired from Kent State to serve as the defensive assistant. • Fagot is on the watch list for the 2021 Chuck Bednarik Coniglio replaced James Adams, who went to Purdue. Brian Newberry, Defensive Coordinator, Safeties PB Award which is presented by the Maxwell Football Club to • Linebacker Will Harbour was named the winner of the Vice Joe Coniglio, Defensive Assistant TBA the college defensive player of the year. Admiral Mack Award as the most improved player during Kevin Downing, Defensive Ends, Raiders PB • Fagot was named a Third-Team Preseason All-American spring practice. Robert Green, Cornerbacks S by Phil Steele’s College Football Magazine, while Fagot Steve Johns, Strikers PB (first team), senior corner Michael McMorris (third team), NIUMATALOLO SPELLS SUCCESS Jerrick Hall, Nose Guards, Defensive Tackles S sophomore nose guard Donald Berniard Jr. (fourth team), • Ken Niumatalolo has been on the Mids’ sideline as P.J. Volker, Inside Linebackers S senior safety Kevin Brennan (fourth team) and junior kicker either an assistant (1995-98, 2002-07) or head coach Game Day Location: S=Sideline // PB=Press Box Bijan Nichols (fourth team) were named to Steele’s All- (2008-current) for 23 of the last 26 years (this will be his AAC team. Fagot is a two-time All-AAC performer, garnering 24th). second-team honors by the league’s coaches as a junior • During that stretch, Navy has compiled a 170-117 record TEAM HISTORY season and first-team recognition as a sophomore. (.592), won 11 Commander-In-Chief’s Trophies, gone to 16 First Year of Football 1879 // 141st season • Navy will play the third-toughest schedule in the country bowl games, won nine bowl games and either shared or won All-Time Record 725-577-57 based on opponent winning percentage from the previous outright the American Athletic Conference West Division in All-Time AAC Record 30-17 year. Navy’s 12 opponents this fall combined for a 72-42 three of its six years in the league. All-Time Bowl Record 11-11-1 (.632) record last year. Only Arkansas (.644) and UMass • Navy is 29-17 (.630) in Service Academy games with National Championships 1 (.644) have tougher slates based on last year’s results. Niumatalolo on the coaching staff and has won 27 of the Year: 1926 • Navy will kick off and end CBS Sports college football cov- last 37 Service Academy games (.730). He has captured the Bowl Appearances 24 erage in 2021 as the Navy-Air Force game on Sept. 11 will most wins in the history of the Army-Navy game and is the Years: 1924, ‘55, ‘58, ‘61, ‘64, ‘78, ‘80, ‘81, ‘96, ‘03, ‘04, be the first regular-season game CBS airs, while the Dec. winningest Navy coach in the history of the Navy-Air Force ‘05, ‘06, ‘07, ‘08, ‘09, ‘10, ‘12, ‘13, ‘14, ‘15, ‘16, ‘17, ‘19 11 Army-Navy Game presented by USAA will be the final series. Commander-In-Chief’s Trophy Champions 16 regular-season game on CBS. • In the 117 seasons without Niumatalolo, Navy has posted a Years: 1973, ‘75, ‘78, ‘79, ‘81, ‘03, ‘04, ‘05, ‘06, ‘07, ‘08, • The Naval Academy Athletic Association will retire Chet 555-460-57 (.549) record, won five Commander-In-Chief’s ‘09, ‘12, ‘13, ‘15, ‘19 Moeller’s No. 48 on Saturday, Oct. 2 during the UCF foot- Trophies (in 26 yrs), gone to eight bowl games and won ball game. Moeller will be the first defensive player to have three of them. Navy is 54-64-7 (.460) in Service Academy STADIUM INFORMATION his number retired at Navy, joining Joe Bellino (No. 27), games without Niumatalolo. Home Field Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium Roger Staubach (No. 12), Napoleon McCallum (No. 27) and Capacity / Surface Type 34,000 / FieldTurf Keenan Reynolds (No. 19). AMERICA’S TEAM First Game Sept. 26, 1959 // def. William & Mary, 29-2 • Navy returns 23 players - 10 on offense, 13 on defense - that • Navy’s 2021 roster represents players from 29 different Stadium Record 170-107-1 started multiple games in 2020. states, as well as the District of Columbia. • Navy saw 26 players make their first-career start during the • Texas leads the way with 21 players, while Maryland is next 2020 campaign which tied for the most in the country. with 17. Florida (14), Alabama (12), Georgia (12), California NAVAL ACADEMY INFORMATION • In each of its last three games of the season, the Navy (10) and Ohio (10) have all produced double-digit student- Location Annapolis, Md. // October 10, 1845 defense held the opposition to under 300 yards of total athletes for the Midshipmen. Enrollment 4,400 offense (205 by Memphis, 296 by Tulsa and 162 by Army). It Nickname Midshipmen or Mids (NOT Middies) marked the first time a Navy defense held the opposition to Colors Navy Blue and Gold under 300 yards total offense in three-straight games since Superintendent Vice Admiral Sean S. Buck, USN 1997 when the Mids did it in seven-consecutive games. Commandant Col. James “J.P.” McDonough III, USMC • Linebacker Tama Tuitele finished tied for second in the Director of Athletics Chet Gladchuk nation in forced fumbles last year with four. COVERING THE MIDSHIPMEN NAVY’S TRENDS UNDER NIUMATALOLO BANBURY TO WEAR DAVID FORNEY’S NO. 68 • Ken Niumatalolo, the longest-tenured coach in school • Navy honored former Navy football player David Forney NAVY SPORTS INFORMATION history and in the American Athletic Conference, is entering in 2020 by wearing a sticker on the back of its helmets 566 Brownson Road | Annapolis, Md. 21402 his 14th year as the Mids’ head coach. that pictures Forney running out of the tunnel at the 2019 Fax: 410-293-8954 | www.NavySports.com • With 101-career wins, Niumatalolo is the winningest coach Army-Navy game carrying the American flag with the word in school history.