1963 Navy Midshipmen football team

1963 Navy Midshipmen football
Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy
Cotton Bowl Classic, L 6–28 vs. Texas
Conference	Independent
Ranking
Coaches	No. 2
AP	No. 2
1963 record	9–2
Head coach	Wayne Hardin (5th year)
Captain	Thomas Lynch
Home stadium	Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium

The 1963 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy in the 1963 college football season. The Midshipmen were led by head coach Wayne Hardin in his fifth year, finished the year with an overall record of nine wins and two losses and with a loss against Texas in the Cotton Bowl Classic.

Quarterback Roger Staubach won the Heisman Trophy and the Maxwell Award while leading the Midshipmen to a 9–1 regular season record and a final ranking of No. #2 in the nation. He led Navy to victory over their annual rivalry with Notre Dame, which would be the Midshipmen's last win over Notre Dame until 2007. In the Crab Bowl Classic, Navy defeated Maryland by a score of 42–7. There was talk of cancelling the 1963 Army-Navy game in the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, but his widow, Jacqueline, insisted that the game should be played. No. 2 Navy accepted an invitation to play in the 1964 Cotton Bowl Classic versus No. 1 Texas, the second No. 1 versus No. 2 bowl game in college football history.

Schedule

Date	Opponent^#	Rank^#	Site	Result	Attendance
September 21	at West Virginia	No. 9	Mountaineer Field • Morgantown, WV	W 51–7
September 28	William & Mary	No. 5	Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium • Annapolis, MD	W 28–0
October 5	at Michigan	No. 6	Michigan Stadium • Ann Arbor, MI	W 26–13	55,877
October 11	at SMU	No. 4	Cotton Bowl Stadium • Dallas TX (Rivalry)	L 28–32	37,000
October 19	vs. VMI	No. 10	Foreman Field • Norfolk, VA (Oyster Bowl)	W 21–12
October 26	No. 3 Pittsburgh	No. 10	Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium • Annapolis, MD	W 24–12
November 2	at Notre Dame	No. 4	Notre Dame Stadium • South Bend, IN (Rivalry)	W 35–14	59,362
November 9	Maryland	No. 4	Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium • Annapolis, MD (Rivalry)	W 42–7
November 16	at Duke	No. 2	Wallace Wade Stadium • Durham, NC	W 38–25
December 7	vs. Army	No. 2	Municipal Stadium • Philadelphia, PA (Army–Navy Game)	W 21–15
January 1, 1964	vs. No. 1 Texas	No. 2	Cotton Bowl Stadium • Dallas, Texas (Cotton Bowl)	L 6–28	75,300
Homecoming. ^#Rankings from AP Poll. All times are in Eastern Time.

Player	Position	Round	Pick	NFL Club
Roger Staubach	Quarterback	10	129	Dallas Cowboys

Navy Midshipmen football

Venues	Worden Field (1890–1923) Thompson Stadium (1924–1958) Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (1959–present) Memorial Stadium (alternate)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Army: Army–Navy Game (Commander-in-Chief's Trophy) Air Force (Commander-in-Chief's Trophy) Johns Hopkins Maryland: Crab Bowl Classic Notre Dame (Rip Miller Trophy) SMU (Gansz Trophy)

Culture & lore	Bill the Goat "Anchors Aweigh" Marching band "Navy ends the drought" 2007 North Texas game

People	Head coaches Statistical leaders

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National championship seasons in bold

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