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Watch Young Lee Corso Coach Up the Navy Midshipmen

This footage of young Lee Corso coaching at Navy is great fun.

The college football regular season comes to an end today with the traditional Army-Navy game and ESPN's College GameDay unearthed what appears to be never before seen footage of a young, Arthur Fonzarelli-looking Navy assistant coach Lee Corso. Obviously, Corso is now known for his enthusiastic performance on the set of GameDay, as he makes picks, dons various mascot heads, and not so fast my friends his colleagues, and in this footage from 1968 you can see where that enthusiasm came from; the guy absolutely loves this stuff.

There's about five minutes of footage and it shows Corso coaching the Navy offense, getting them pumped up to have "pride in your offense," pacing the sidelines during the game, screaming "Beat Army" in that raspy voice of his as he gets tossed in the water by his players, and talking about how much it means to coach in the Army-Navy game. It's a whole lot of fun and it clearly got to Corso, who said he'd never seen the footage before, as he was emotional and uncharacteristically economical with his words after watching it.

[ESPN]