Today marks the 50th anniversary of the 1963 Army-Navy game. The game should have been played a week earlier, but it had been pushed back out of respect for recently slain president John F. Kennedy.
It began as a surprise innovation by CBS during the 1963 Army-Navy telecast. Army’s Ken Waldrop plunges over the Navy defensive line to the two-yard line with 18 seconds remaining in the game in ...