Bill the Goat during a game against the Cincinnati Bearcats at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. (MC3 Thomas Bonaparte Jr./Navy) According to legend, sailors aboard a Navy vessel that was docked ...

Bill the Goat joins a row of U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen on the field during the start of the 113th Army-Navy football game on Dec. 8, 2012. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Peter D ...

Navy won – and the departed goat got the credit. A live goat made its mascot debut at the Army-Navy game in 1893. The USS New York docked near Annapolis, and the ship mascot, a goat named El Cid ...

Bill XXXIII (33), the fuzzy Angora goat seen on the sidelines for a Navy football game in 2015 and who was the Navy mascot from 2008 to 2015, has died, the Naval Academy announced Thursday.

Tradition, pride and glory: all words that describe Saturday's clash between Army and Navy in Baltimore. Two special cheerleaders will be on the sideline to help root on the Midshipmen---and they ...

The Navy football team has held the nickname of Midshipmen since the Academy was founded. What is Navy's mascot? Navy's mascot is a goat, otherwise known as "Bill The Goat." ...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Army held its ground on a goal-line stand in the final seconds to send Navy mascot Bill the Goat — and Navy superfan Bill, the G.O.A.T. — home disappointed.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Army held its ground on a goal-line stand in the final seconds to send Navy mascot Bill the Goat — and Navy superfan Bill, the G.O.A.T. — home disappointed.

As the annual Army-Navy football game approaches, supporters of the mighty Midshipmen might be asking themselves a simple question: why does the U.S. Naval Academy, an institution dedicated to the ...

Since 1890, 37 goats named "Bill" have served as the mighty Midshipmens' mascot. ... Chicago Illinois 1926, with the Navy goat mascot and the Army mule. (Naval History and Heritage Command) ...