Browsing: Napoleon McCallum

Navy will never be able to host a true home game to Ohio State, but this is the next best thing. The Mids and Buckeyes will square off on Labor Day weekend in 2014 at M&T Bank Stadium, home of the Baltimore Ravens. M&T seats 71,000, which is more than double than Navy-Marine Corps Stadium in Annapolis can hold. But it’s still not as big as Ohio Stadium (“The Horseshoe”) in Columbus, which seats more than 102,000. It was at The Shoe where Navy and Ohio State played a classic last season, with the Buckeyes intercepting and returning a two-point…

Napoleon McCallum was one of the greatest football players in Naval Academy history. He holds the academy’s all-time rushing record, was twice an All-American selection, twice led the nation in all-purpose yardage, made the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1985 and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003. But to most football fans, the enduring memory of McCallum is the severe leg injury he suffered on Monday Night Football in September 1994. McCallum, while getting tackled by San Francisco 49ers linebacker Ken Norton Jr., sustained a dislocated kneecap, three torn ligaments, had his calf muscle and…

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