Football 1984September 13. 1984S
McCallum upholds Navy tradition
By LEE ROBERTS
Assistant Sports Editor
Talk about a set-up.
Pictures of Joe Bellino, Roger
Staubach and present-day senior
tailback Napoleon McCallum all
grace the cover of the Naval
Academy's 1984 Football Hand
book. Bellino and Staubach are
the only two Heisman Trophy
winners in Academy history. As
for McCallum, written under the
photograph of him romping into
the end zone in last season's Army
Navy game is the caption, "...The
Tradition Continues..."
Certainly, McCallum is among
the leading pre-season candidates
for this year's Heisman award,
along with Doug Flutie of Boston
College, Bo Jackson of Auburn
and Bernie Kosar of Miami. What
else does Navy have to boast
ab out? Even with McCallum
finishing first in the nation in all
purpose running at over 216 yards
per game and third in the nation
in rushing with 1,587 yards in
1983, the Midshipmen could still
only manage a 3-8 record.
But without McCallum, Navy
might have even lost to Army and
Princeton and shudder to think
of it Lehigh. In fact, Sports
Illustrated went so far as to say
that "Napoleon Ardell McCallum
IS Navy."
At times last season, it seemed
as if McCallum was indeed the
entire Navy offense. For instance,
last Oct. 8, in a 44-17 loss to Air
Force, the Middies picked up 275
yards rushing. McCallum gained
21 1 of them, including 60 on one
run which gave Navy its last lead
at 10-7. The next week, in a 37
29 win at Prjnceton, McCallum
had the best game of his career.
The junior tailback rushed for 229
yards, but did not even play in the
last 22 minutes of the game, caught
three passes for 37 yards, made a
punt return of 45 yards and had
a kickoff return of 21 yards. That
gave McCallum 332 yards all
purpose running for the day, a
Naval Academy record (one of 16
he holds). Plus he scored the first
three Navy touchdowns of the
game.
To top that off, the next week
McCallum gained 172 yards in a
narrow 21-14 loss to highly-ranked
Pittsburgh. McCallum's effort was
the most yards gained in one game
against a Pitt team since Lydell
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Pittsburgh head coach Foge
Fazio was effusive after the game.
"If you want to talk about effort,
then McCallum showed great
second and third effort," Fazio
said. "We played every one of our
defensive schemes, and I'm sure
our guys were keying on him, but
he has great lean, good balance,
and he heads for the goal line. He
can play for anybody in the
country."
If McCallum can play for anyb
ody in the country, then why was
he recruited by only Syracuse,
N.C. State, Tennessee and Navy,
and by the former three as a
defensive back?
Navy head coach Gary Tran
quill says that McCallum has
improved tremendously since his
high school days. "Everything that
Napoleon has done has come
through hard work," Tranquill
said.
That hard-work ethic has prob
ably come about as the result of
McCallum's father, the elder
Napoleon, who has been a big
influence on his son. The McCal
lums grew up in Milford, Ohio,
on an 11 -acre farm east of Cin
cinnati. Living out in the country,
there was a lot of hard work for
the younger Napoleon, and life
was sometimes pretty tough, he
said. There were animals to tend
to, fences to mend and farm
equipment to fix.
"It was pretty hard sometimes,"
McCallum said. "Mom would cry
for us to come in, and it'd usually
be real dark outside before we
did."
That hard-work lifestyle helped
McCallum, his father said.
"We are country people," Napo
leon the father said. "I believe he
started to play sports to get away
from that work. I didn't mind. I
just don't believe in idleness."
As a youngster, McCallum
preferred wrestling over other
sports. His father was a wrestling
coach at nearby Princeton High
School in Sharonville, Oh. "In
wrestling, you shake your oppo
nent's hand, they ring the bell and
you put him on his back," McCal
lum said, explaining the special
challenge that he feels in wrestling.
When time came to choose a
college, McCallum gave up wres
tling to devote more attention to
football. The few colleges that
recruited him wanted him to play
defense. McCallum chose Navy,
where he could run with the ball.
"Here I have had the opportun
ity to play tailback and to start
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