Navy football to highlight LCS

The U.S. Naval Academy football team will wear Under Armour-designed “Navy Fleet” uniforms and hand-painted helmets for the Army-Navy game Dec. 12. The uniform is inspired to pay homage to seven ships with the Navy’s fleet. Each ship is detailed on one of seven hand-painted helmets that each player will wear, assigned by position. The Littoral Combat Ship, which Austal USA of Mobile, Ala., builds one variant, will appear on the helmets of Navy running backs. Additionally, the rally cry “Damn the Torpedoes!” is featured on the uniform as a nod to Fleet Adm. David Farragut’s historic Civil War victory at the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864. The game is to be carried live at 2 p.m. on CBS from the Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. (Source: Yellowhammer 12/01/15)