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The Army-Navy game…the nation’s rivalry…the nation’s classic. This is the only college football game where tens of millions of Americans, at home and abroad, on the seas and under them, root for one team or the other on the first Saturday of every December. Yet, 99.9% of them are not alumni of either Annapolis or West Point. That is why the game has been the nation’s most enduring rivalry for nearly all of its 113 years and 103 games. For decades, it’s been the logical conclusion to each college football season, whether it was played on the Saturday following Thanksgiving...