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WEST POINT, N.Y. -- When Army coach Jeff Monken kicks back in his office chair, he can stare out the massive side window at Michie Stadium and the sign that hangs above Blaik Field on the home side -- National Champions 1944, 1945, 1946 -- and imagine Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside running rampant.I think thats awesome, said Monken, the latest Army coach to use films of the programs glory days as motivation for todays players. Its a great thing to be proud of.Army briefly became king of the hill in the decade of the 1940s after Earl Red Blaik was hired as head coach in 1941, and Notre Dame became its foil in the biggest rivalry in the nation. A series that began in 1913 had been dominated by the Irish -- 20 wins with three ties in the first 26 games -- and reached its zenith in intensity in the 1940s.Notre Dame defeated Army 13-0 and 26-0 in Blaiks second and third seasons before the Black Knights struck with a vengeance. Felix Doc Blanchard, aka Mr. Inside, and Glenn Davis, aka Mr. Outside, led the charge. Army intercepted eight passes and trounced the Irish 59-0 at Yankee Stadium.It still ranks as the worst defeat in Irish history and remains a source of pride for the Long Gray Line.Talking to players who actually competed in those games, they were bitter, bitter rivals, said Army executive athletic director Bob Beretta, whos worked at West Point for three decades. They were challenging for the place of the most elite program in the country. The Associated Press college football poll was created in 1936 to try to answer the simplest yet most divisive question in sports: Whos better? The poll helped give a regional sport more of a national scope and helped define the Army-Notre Dame rivalry.It (the poll) absolutely was a factor. I think it was a happening, Beretta said. All the eyes of the college football world were on New York City and Yankee Stadium for Army-Notre Dame. That was probably going to be the game to determine the national champion. It wasnt a game. It was an event. It was must-see football.Notre Dame was ranked No. 1 three times from 1936-39 and another 30 times in the 1940s, when the Irish won four of their eight national championships. Army was not ranked from 1936-39 but earned the top ranking 22 times in its special decade under Blaik, which included five unbeaten seasons.Army followed that 1944 trouncing with a 48-0 victory over Notre Dame the next year as the Black Knights hit their zenith under Blanchard and Davis, who each won the Heisman Trophy.We were the top dog at the time. It was very important to continue that status, said 92-year-old Arnold Tucker, standout quarterback on those Army teams. We wanted a third.The rivalry would culminate in one of the great games of the 20th century -- a 0-0 tie in 1946. Both were unbeaten and untied coming in.That was the game of the century. Always intense, said 88-year-old Bill Gompers, a halfback on that Notre Dame team who nearly scored, getting run out of bounds at the Army goal line on fourth down by Blanchard. To play in a game like that was out of this world for each of us.The big thing was the rivalry. That was the biggest because of the national championship, Gompers said.Notre Dame was voted national champion, but Army still considers that team a title team.BEST PROGRAMSMichigan appeared in 98.86 percent of all polls taken.Notre Dame, 96. 59 percent.Penn, 81.82 percent.BEST RIVALRYHow intense was the Army-Notre Dame rivalry? The series entered a 10-year hiatus after the 1947 game at Notre Dame when the Irish won easily 27-7. Blaik and the Army brass thought the rivalry had become too heated and the Irish, not Navy, had become Armys biggest rival.MAIN TAKEAWAYThe AP poll didnt necessarily make the games between the teams bigger, but it helped place more tangible stakes on the big games -- the No. 1 ranking and national title.---AP College Football Website: www.collegefootball.ap.org---AP Sports Writers Ralph Russo in New York and Tom Coyne in South Bend, Indiana contributed.---Follow Kekis on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Greek1947 Ecco Scontate Outlet . The incident occurred at 19:56 of the second period of the Kings 4-2 road win over Edmonton on Sunday. Nolan punched Oilers forward Jesse Joensuu in the jaw in front of the Kings goal during a scrum. Ecco Outlet Italia . Durant finished with 24 points and 13 rebounds, Jackson matched his career high with 23 points on 10-of-14 shooting and Lamb scored 12 points on 5-of-7 shooting, lifting the Thunder to a 94-88 win over San Antonio and snapping the Spurs 11-game winning streak. http://www.eccooutlet.it/ . "Trying to breathe," he said with a grin. Bernier stopped 42 of 43 shots on Monday night, including all 22 in a hectic middle frame, his heroic performance propelling the Leafs toward an undue point in their final game before the Christmas break. Ecco Scarpe Scontate . The return match will take place next Wednesday. Udinese leads Fiorentina 2-1 in the other semifinal. Napoli staged a second-half comeback from two goals down after Gervinhos opener and a stunning strike from Kevin Strootman. Ecco Scarpe Offerta . -- Patrick Reed got an early start in golf. Great Britain swatted aside recent controversies to show the future is bright with five gold medals at the Track World Cup in Glasgow.The only sign of trouble came when Katie Archibald and Manon Lloyd crashed before responding to win womens Madison gold on Saturday -- despite a fractured wrist for Archibald and concussion for Lloyd.And, after the team pursuit squads triumphs on Fridays opening day, Emily Kay won the new-look omnium on Sunday, when the mens team sprint squad of Jack Carlin, Ryan Owens and Joe Truman were also victorious at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome.It saw Britain top the medal table at the opening Track World Cup of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic cycle -- with the rest of the world looking on with envy once more.Shane Sutton resigned as British Cycling technical director 100 days prior to the Rio Olympics, ending a 15-year association, amid allegations of discrimination which he continues to deny. Britain won six of 10 track titles in Rio despite the controversy.Sutton was last month found to have used inappropriate and discriminatory language towards Jess Varnish, effectively ending hope of a return to the National Cycling Centre in Manchester.An independent review into the culture of the world-class performance programme is ongoing -- and so it seems is the talent production line, which is sure to attract candidates to the vacant role of performance director.Archibald was the only active member of Britains Olympic squad competing here.The 22-year-old from Milngavie, north of Glasgow, won Olympic team pursuit gold in August with Joanna Rowsell-Shand, Elinor Barker and Laura Trott [now Kenny after her marriage to six-time Olympic champion Jason Kenny in September].That was despite an injury-interrupted build-up which saw Archibald miss Marchs Track World Championships in London with knee and elbow injuries sustained in a motorbike accident.Now she will see a specialist in Manchester on Monday and faces another spell of rehabilitation. This time she was able to laugh it off.I thought Im not going to go to A&E on a Saturday night, Bonfire Night, its going to be hell, she said. I couldnt sleep. I waited until what I thought was definitely the next day and not the previous day and went off to A&E.dddddddddddd.Archibald was able to greet fans before the final session.Most people have been really glad that its not my autograph hand thats hurt but it was just a lot of get well soons, she added.Of more serious concerns for Archibald and her established teammates is the battle for their places, now there is upward pressure from a promising crop of talented riders.Kay, the most senior member of the team pursuit squad which won on Friday, won her second gold of the three-day event with a mature and composed ride in the new-look omnium.Laura Kenny won a second Olympic title in the event in Rio, when it featured three timed and three bunch disciplines over two days, while Archibald won the European title in the revised format -- of four bunch races in one day -- last month.Kay was fourth in the opening scratch race, second in the tempo race and second in the elimination race to sit second entering the concluding points race.The 21-year-old from Bromsgrove was six points behind Japans Yumi Kajihara, but overcame that margin and then held off the challenge from behind as Belgiums Lotte Kopecky finished one point adrift.For the first World Cup in the cycle, to win gold is better than I could have imagined, Kay said.Britain have won the last three Olympics in the three-rider, three-lap mens team sprint but no world title since 2005.That might soon change as Carlin, Owens and Truman showed there is strength in depth behind Rio gold medallists Phil Hindes, Jason Kenny and Callum Skinner.The trio won in 43.479 seconds, with France second, and now compete at next weeks Track World Cup in Apeldoorn, Holland.Owens, an unused Rio Olympics reserve, said: Were such a unit together, were friends on and off the track. We were third in qualifying but we just got better and better as the day went on.We just went out there and enjoyed the environment with the home crowd and it came out the best way possible. ' ' '