1/6/2005 - Football
Navy Football Team Voted Second Best Team In The East

ANNAPOLIS, Md.-The Navy football team, which posted a 10-2 record, won the Commander-In-Chief's Trophy and the Emerald Bowl, finished second behind Boston College in the final ECAC Lambert Football balloting.

Established in 1936 as the "Lambert Trophy" to recognize supremacy in eastern college football, the award has since grown to recognize the best teams in the East in Divisions I-A, I-AA, II and III. Before asking the ECAC to assume the administration, the Meadowlands Sports Complex managed the weekly poll and the award beginning in 1983 through the 2001 season.

To be eligible for the Lambert Meadowlands Awards, a school must be located in the East or play half of its schedule against eligible Lambert teams.

Four separate panels of media, one in each division, participate in a weekly poll and the final poll determines the winners. Playoffs and bowl games are including in the polling.

ECAC Lambert Division I-A Football Poll

1. Boston College (9-3)
2. Navy (10-2)
3. West Virginia (8-4)
4. Connecticut (8-4)
5. Pittsburgh (8-4)
6. Syracuse (6-6)
7. Penn State (4-7)
8. Rutgers (4-7)
9. Army (2-9)
10. Temple (2-9)