Oct. 26, 2010
Annapolis, Md.--The Navy football team is ranked as the number one team in the East according to the ECAC Lambert Meadowlands Football Bowl Subdivision Poll. Presented by FieldTurf. The ECAC will release a weekly poll in each of the four divisions (Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), Division II and Division III) and the final poll in January will determine the trophy winners. The first place teams in the final poll will be presented with the Lambert Meadowlands Award during the Eastern College Football Awards Banquet at the New Meadowlands Stadium in February.
Established in 1936 as the Lambert Trophy to recognize supremacy in Eastern college football, the award has since grown to recognize the best team in the East in the Bowl Subdivision. In 1957, the Lambert Cup was created to recognize non-Division I-A teams, and in 1966 a Division III award was added. In 1983, the Lambert family decided the Meadowlands Sports Complex would be the best organization with a sincere and involved interest in college athletics to sponsor and manage the award, and since that time, the awards have been known as the Lambert Meadowlands Awards.
Navy has won the trophy just five times in the previous 74 years with the last time coming in 1963 when Heisman Trophy winner Roger Staubach led the Mids to a 9-2 record and a berth in the Cotton Bowl against Texas. Navy also won the Lambert Trophy in 1960, 1957, 1954 and 1943.
ECAC® Lambert Meadowlands Football Bowl Subdivision Poll
presented by FieldTurf
Record Points
1. Navy 5-2 119
2. Pittsburgh 4-3 113
3. Syracuse 5-2 103
4. Penn State 4-3 99
4. West Virginia 5-2 99
6. Temple 6-2 84
7. Louisville 4-3 43
8. Army 4-3 39
9. Rutgers 4-3 36
10. Cincinnati 3-4 19
