page_title: Navy Midshipmen football
section_title: Wayne Hardin era (1959–1964)
hierarchical_section_title: Navy Midshipmen football / History / Wayne Hardin era (1959–1964)
caption_attribution_description: English: Navy quarterback, Roger Staubach (#12), attempts a forward pass as Maryland defenders close in.
context_page_description: The Navy Midshipmen football team represents the United States Naval Academy in NCAA Division I FBS college football. The Naval Academy completed its final season as an FBS independent school in 2014, and became a single-sport member of the American Athletic Conference beginning in the 2015 season. The team has been coached by Ken Niumatalolo since December 2007. Navy has 19 players and three coaches in the College Football Hall of Fame and won the college football national championship in 1926 according to the Boand and Houlgate poll systems. The 1910 team also was undefeated and unscored upon. The mascot is Bill the Goat.
  The three major service academies—Air Force, Army, and Navy—compete for the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy, which is awarded to the academy that defeats the others in football that year.
context_section_description: From 1959 to 1964, Wayne Hardin was the head coach at Navy, where he compiled a 38–22–2 record. His Navy teams posted five consecutive wins against archrival Army, a feat not surpassed until 2007 when Paul Johnson's Navy squad won their sixth consecutive contest in the Army–Navy Game. Hardin coached Navy's two winners of the Heisman Trophy, Joe Bellino, who received the award in 1960, and Roger Staubach, who did so in 1963. Hardin was the first to coach an African-American player at Navy when Dr. Calvin Huey earned a letter in 1964.
  Hardin resigned as Navy's head coach following a 3–6–1 record in 1964.
caption: QB Roger Staubach (#12) won the Heisman Trophy in 1963. His number was retired by the Midshipmen
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