In Tom Cahill's first two seasons as Army's football coach, the Cadets went 8-2 and 8-2, the second of those teams being the famous non-Sugar Bowl team of 1967.
Seventeen years later, a Jim Young coached team went 8-3-1 and won the first bowl game Army ever played in—The Cherry Bowl--the Cadets beating Michigan State, 10-6.
A year later, Army went 9-3, culminating that season with a stunning 31-29 upset of Illinois in The Peach Bowl. Watching that game on television, a former Army basketball coach named Bob Knight watched the Cadets stop a two-point conversion attempt by the Illini in the waning seconds to clinch the victory.