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The Army West Point Black Knights football team, commonly known as Army, is the program that represents the United States Military Academy, which is located in West Point, New York. Army belongs to the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and is a three time national champion, winning the title in 1944, 1945, and 1946. With the exception of seven seasons where the team was a member of Conference USA, Army has competed as an independent, meaning that they have no affiliation with any conference. Currently, Army is one of three schools in Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) play that does not belong to a conference; the others are the University of Notre Dame and Brigham Young University. (All three of these schools belong to conferences for their other sports; Army is primarily a member of the Patriot League, BYU is a member of the West Coast Conference, and Notre Dame belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference.) Three players from Army have won the Heisman Trophy: Doc Blanchard (1945), Glenn Davis (1946), and Pete Dawkins (1958).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Heisman Winners )〕 ==History== Army's football program began in 1890, when Navy challenged the cadets to a game of the relatively new sport. Navy defeated Army at West Point that year, but Army avenged the loss in Annapolis the following year.〔Ambrose (1966), pp. 305–306.〕 The academies still clash every December in what is traditionally the last regular-season Division I college-football game. The 2014 Army-Navy Game marked Army's thirteenth consecutive loss to Navy. From 1944 to 1950, the Cadets / Black Knights / the Corps had 57 wins, 3 losses and 4 ties. During this time span, Army won three national championships.〔When Pride Still Mattered, David Maraniss, p.135, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, New York, NY, 1999, ISBN 978-0-684-84418-3〕 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 three Heisman trophy winners: Doc Blanchard (1945), Glenn Davis (1946) and Pete Dawkins (1958).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Trophy Winners ) 〕 Past NFL coaches Vince Lombardi〔 〕 and Bill Parcells were Army assistant coaches early in their careers. The football team plays its home games at Michie Stadium, where the playing field is named after Earl Blaik. Cadets' attendance is mandatory at football games and the Corps stands for the duration of the game. At all home games, one of the four regiments marches onto the field in formation before the team takes the field and leads the crowd in traditional Army cheers.〔Palka (2008), p. 197.〕 For many years, Army teams were known as the "Cadets." In the 1940s, several papers called the football team "the Black Knights of the Hudson." From then on, "Cadets" and "Black Knights" were used interchangeably until 1999, when the team was officially nicknamed the Black Knights. Between the 1998 and 2004 seasons, Army's football program was a member of Conference USA, but starting with the 2005 season Army reverted to its former independent status.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=The Official Website of Conference USA )〕 Army competes with Navy and Air Force for the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Army Black Knights football」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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