The Black Knights play home games in Michie Stadium with a capacity of 36,000 at West Point, New York.

[1] Army has produced 24 players and four coaches in the College Football Hall of Fame, 37 consensus All-Americans, and three Heisman Trophy winners: Doc Blanchard (1945), Glenn Davis (1946), and Pete Dawkins (1958).

The three major service academies—Army, Navy, and Air Force—compete for the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy; Army has won the award ten times, most recently in 2023.

Army's football program began on November 29, 1890, when Navy challenged the cadets to a game of the relatively new sport.

[4] The academies still clash every December in what is traditionally the last regular-season Division I college-football game.

Army's football team reached its pinnacle of success during the Second World War under coach Earl Blaik when Army won three consecutive national championships in 1944, 1945 and 1946, and produced two Heisman Trophy winners: Doc Blanchard (1945), Glenn Davis (1946).

Army has won five national championships from NCAA-designated major selectors, including twice (1944, 1945) from the AP Poll.

On October 24, 2019, the West Point Athletic Department announced that they had agreed to a contract that placed their team, if eligible, in the Independence Bowl for three of the six years, with the remaining years being contracted to an ESPN Events-owned bowl.

Aligning with this, on November 5 Army announced that it had agreed to a secondary contractual tie-in with the Duke's Mayo Bowl.

[17] It agreed that it would serve as the primary backup for the bowl and would have the opportunity to accept an invitation to the game twice during the six-year cycle.

Air Force, Army, and Navy have played each other every year since 1972 for the Commander-in Chief's Trophy.

[20] In a shocking upset Army defeated Air Force on November 4, 2023, in Denver at Empower Field.

Army and Navy play each other annually in the Army–Navy game, which is also a part of the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy.

In much of the early 20th century, Army and Notre Dame were considered football powerhouses, and met 34 times between 1913 and 1947.

The stadium is named after the first Army football head coach, Dennis Michie.

Bradley played end opposite the legendary Knute Rockne, the Notre Dame end who later coached the Irish to national championships before dying in a plane crash near Bazaar, Kansas, on Easter Friday in 1931.

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