Team: Navy Midshipmen
Stadium: Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium
Conference: Independent
Sport: College Football
Background: The United States Naval Academy is an institution for the undergraduate education of officers of the United States Navy, at Annapolis, Maryland on the banks of the Severn River. Students at the Naval Academy are referred to by their military rank, Midshipman and never as "cadets." The Academy is often referred to simply as "Annapolis", while Midshipmen at the Academy refer to the town of Annapolis as "Crab Town." U.S. sports media refer to the Academy as Navy, and this usage is officially endorsed. ROTC and Officer Candidate School graduates as well as Air Force Academy Cadets and Cadets at the Military Academy at West Point often refer to the Naval Academy as "Canoe U." There is no graduate school directly associated with the Naval Academy. Instead, the Navy operates the Naval Postgraduate School, the Naval War College and Marine Corps University separately.