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Navy football coach Ken Niumatalolo’s spacious office likely leaves even the most jaded recruit a bit noodle-kneed.
A multi-leveled shelf behind the coach’s desk is lined with commemorative football helmets, Army-Navy game balls and fist-sized reproductions of Navy bowl rings.
Hanging on an inside wall is a large photo of smiling Midshipmen at the White House receiving the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy from, well, the commander-in-chief.
And a full-length window offers a broad view of the Spa Creek Inlet. The founders of the U.S. Naval Academy, back in 1845, didn’t select its locale to attract star high school defensive ends and quarterbacks — but it’s an enticing site just the same.
But it’s the smaller items atop Niumatalolo’s desk that are most important to Navy’s all-time winningest football coach.
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