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Reggie Campbell's numbers: 227 all-purpose yards, including 98 on kickoff returns, 73 on punt returns, 47 rushing and 9 receiving. Two touchdowns, one on the kickoff return, one on a 12-yard run. He set a school record with two kickoff return touchdowns in one season, with the longest kickoff return ever and for most single-season kickoff return yardage. He tied a school record for most career returns for touchdowns (two) and the Army-Navy record for longest return (with Army's Charles Daly in 1901). He set an Army-Navy record for best single-game punt-return average and for the longest punt return. He moved into third in single-season all-purpose yardage for Navy (the top two totals are by Napoleon McCallum), and added to his school record for career kickoff return yardage. His all-purpose game total is his second-highest ever, behind the 290 in the Poinsettia Bowl in 2005.

Other big records: this is the longest win streak by a team in this game, with Paul Johnson now being 6 for 6. That means since his arrival, Navy has gone from three games under .500 against Army lifetime to three games over. The three points by Army were also the fewest scored by either team in a game since the 1991 game, a 24-3 Navy win.

Navy has five straight Commander in Chief trophies; the record is seven straight, during Air Force's heyday from 1989-95. Would you believe Army hasn't held the trophy since '96?

Navy set single-season school records for points scored and points allowed.

Most unexpected stat of the day: 13 combined punts. Possibly because so few were expected, neither side did it well: a handful of shanks and a block, by Navy.

Next on the list: Kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada had 34 total yards and the game was still a rout.

I'm outta here, off to catch some of the Earl Monroe festivities (I hope). Tipoff is in about two minutes, and I'm still at the stadium.

 

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