My dad was a 27 year veteran of the military...he started in the Army, then the Army Air Force (WWII), then the Air Force. He bought the family's first TV so he could watch the Army/Navy game. That was before the Air Force Academy was established.
He also coached an Army base football team in post war Germany. He had Casimir Myslinski on that team. Myslinski was an All American center at West Point in the early 40's before his active duty stint, and later was AD at Pittsburgh.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb//fb/Cas_Myslinski.jpg/220px-Cas_Myslinski.jpg
The A/N game is more than a game to me