President Awarding Naval Academy Football team the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy video: Navy Football accepts CINC Trophy YouTube video.
The team’s co-captains, Bernie Serra and Keenan Reynolds, had a couple of mottos that I really like. The first one was “one-and-oh” –- a reminder to take each game one at a time. So they started the season 1-0 with a 38-point blowout. They went 1-0 against Air Force in another rout. For the 14th straight year, they went 1-0 against Army to reclaim this trophy, and then Navy went 1-0 in the Military Bowl.
All those “one-and-ohs” added up to 11 wins, which is more than any Navy team in history –- and Navy’s been playing football a long time — about as long as we’ve had the lightbulb. (Laughter.) In four years, these seniors have won more games than any Navy team since the Class of 1909. They’ve won this trophy three times, won three bowl games, and has anybody here ever lost to Army? (Laughter.) That’s sort of a deafening silence there.
The team’s second motto that I like is something Coach Ken would remind his players at halftime: “You don’t have to do anything special -– just do your job.” “Just do your job” –- I really like that slogan.
In doing their jobs, these players did something special. And that’s especially true for the anchor of this Navy team, Keenan Reynolds, one of college football’s all-time greats. The only quarterback in the 125-year history of the Army-Navy rivalry to win the game four times. Holds 11 NCAA records, including most rushing yards by a quarterback. With his 88 touchdowns, no one in college football history has been in the end zone more times than Navy’s number 19. And in honor of his leadership, both on and off the field, no one will ever wear it again, which is not bad for a guy who started out as the third-string quarterback
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