Army Looking at College Football Games at Yankee Stadium

Notre Dame has expressed interest in playing football at Yankee Stadium, and athletic director Jack Swarbrick said a possible opponent is Army. Seems the Irish are not the only ones feeling that way.

In a report in Newsday, Army officials say they have been talking to the Yankees since March about playing football games at the new Bronx facility.

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"We've had preliminary discussions with the Yankees about playing there, and we do have interest in playing a game or games in Yankee Stadium," Bob Beretta, the academy's associate athletic director for communications, told Newsday. "We met with them on a couple different occasions, toured the new facility. There's significant interest in forming a partnership to play there."

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Beretta said Army has not had discussions with Notre Dame about playing a game at Yankee Stadium.

"It's a big part of the tradition of college football to have Army games at Yankee Stadium," Beretta told Newsday. "We can't say right now that it's going to happen. But we would like it to happen, and we hope the Yankees feel the same way."

The Yankees have said nothing about hosting college football games.

Earlier this week, Army and Hawaii agreed to a four-game series starting in 2010 with two games in West Point and two games in Honolulu. The schools are nearly 5,000 miles apart. Army coach Rich Ellerson is a former Hawaii player and assistant coach.

And some links for a Friday morning:

-- The New York Times continues its countdown of all 120 Football Championship Subdivision teams with Southern Methodist at No. 102.

-- A chance meeting in Phoenix by Rutgers AD Tim Pernetti and UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel was the impetus for a possible home-and-home series between the two schools, the Newark Star-Ledger reports.

-- Tennessee could be losing Mark Smith, the team's strength and conditioning coach.

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