Navy Defeats Army; Miami Breezes

With Navy Heisman Trophy winners Roger Staubach and Joe Bellino on hand, Navy beat Army, 19-9, Saturday at Philadelphia.

Brian Madden ran for a career-high 177 yards in 41 carries, and Gino Marchetti recovered two fumbles for Navy (5-7), which won for only the third time in the series this decade.

“They can sit there and tell their grandkids one day, ‘We beat Army in the 100th Army-Navy game,’ ” Navy Coach Charlie Weatherbie said. “They can say, ‘I don’t remember what the score was, but we kicked their tail.’ I’m sure the lies will grow and grow.”

Marchetti has the same name as the former Baltimore Colt player but isn’t sure he’s related.

The Navy players wore a patch during the game to honor former teammate Jason McCray, who would have been a senior this season had he not died while playing basketball two years ago, and to also honor Middie Chris Wilson, who died Tuesday after collapsing during a physical test.

Madden, voted most valuable player of the game, wore the No. 8 version of Navy’s throwback uniforms that were revived from Staubach’s era for the game. He ran for Navy’s only touchdown on the Middies’ first possession. Tim Shubzda kicked four field goals, tying the series record, and Navy snuffed out a fourth-quarter comeback try by the Cadets (3-8).

Although Navy stopped a two-game losing streak, Army holds a 48-45-7 edge in the series, which began in 1890.

It was an all-Heisman coin toss. Navy was represented by Bellino and Staubach, Army by Pete Dawkins and Glenn Davis.

Philadelphia hosted the game for the 75th time in front of a crowd of 70,049 at Veterans Stadium.

No. 23 Miami 55, Temple 0--Ken Dorsey threw four touchdown passes and Jarrett Payton, James Jackson and Clinton Portis combined for 216 yards rushing at Miami, and the Hurricanes are headed for a New Year’s Day bowl for the first time since 1995.

Miami, 8-4 overall and 6-1 in the Big East, accepted a bid to the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, where it will play No. 17 Georgia Tech on Jan. 1.

The Owls finished 2-9, 2-5.

The Hurricanes started the season with hopes of a national title, but they had to turn their sights toward a Big East championship after three early-season losses. And after a conference loss to No. 2 Virginia Tech last month, Miami was left with one goal: get to a New Year’s Day bowl.

The Hurricanes had gone to a Jan. 1 or later bowl 12 years in a row beginning with the Orange Bowl in 1984, the site of their first national championship. That streak ended with Coach Butch Davis’ arrival in 1995, when the Hurricanes missed out on a bowl game because of NCAA probation.

“This was a great way to end the regular season,” Davis said. “This was a football team that was able to continue to redefine its goals.”