US Military Academy Debuts Football Uniform That Honors World War I Division
  • 5 years ago
The US Military Academy at West Point is honoring a famed Army unit with its specially-designed Army-Navy football uniforms. Army will face off against the Naval Academy Midshipmen on Saturday for the 119th iteration of the Army-Navy game. This year's uniform honors Army's First Division, the "Big Red One," which gained fame for helping assure an Allied victory during World War I. Some of the units within the division went on to storm Omaha Beach in Normandy during World War II.