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College football at Yankee Stadium is indeed happening, as one of our guest columnists rather sardonically warned you that it would a couple months back. The United States Military Academy at West Point, Army is signed on to play several games at the new stadium. Army will first play its traditional rival Notre Dame in 2010. Army and Notre Dame played 22 times at the old Yankee Stadium according to the New York Times.

In 2011, Army will taken on the school that played the first college football game, the rising New Jersey power in the Big East, Rutgers. Army is scheduled to play Air Force, the most successful of the military academies in football of late, at the stadium in 2012. In 2014 Army has scheduled Boston College, formerly of the Big East. Yankee Stadium is expected to have about 47,000 seats when it is converted for football.

Labels: college football, sports