| A medical convention scheduled for Philadelphia the week of the
2002 Army-Navy game has put a crunch on hotel rooms and forced
the annual gridiron battle between service academies to Giants
Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
In recent years the game, which carries a storied history as the
regular season culmination for the two Midshipmen and the Cadets,
has become a source of frequent scheduling conflicts. Last year,
the game was moved to Baltimore. It returns to Veterans Stadium
in Philadelphia this year before the move to New Jersey on Dec.
7, 2002.
Dozens of cities and stadiums offered to host the game, but Jack
Lengyel, the athletic director for Navy, said that the search
was limited to Baltimore, Washington and New Jersey.
"We just felt more comfortable going to a stadium we had already
played a contest in," he said. The game returns to a new stadium
in Philadelphia in 2003, but after that alternate sites will be
sought out. |
