Portal:Philadelphia/Selected picture/December 2009

Army and Navy square off during 4th quarter play at the 106th Army vs. Navy Football game.

Photo credit: James G. Pinsky

The Army–Navy Game is an annual college football game between the teams of the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York and the United States Naval Academy (USNA) at Annapolis, Maryland. The USMA team, "Army", and the USNA team, "Navy", each represent their services' oldest officer commissioning sources. As such, the game has come to embody the spirit of the interservice rivalry of the United States Armed Forces. Traditionally, the game is played in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, due to the historic nature of the city and the fact that it is approximately halfway between West Point and Annapolis.