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Hawaii and today’s opponent, Navy, don’t have the deepest history. UH leads the head-to-head series 2-1. But one of those three meetings — the first — possessed plenty of significance beyond the Maryland-based service academy’s ties with the islands’ strong military presence. UH, under first-year coach June Jones, was in the process of putting together what was then the biggest turnaround season in NCAA football history. This meeting with the Midshipmen at Aloha Stadium on Nov. 20, 1999, came after the Rainbow […]

Cole McDonald’s sublime debut as Hawaii football starting quarterback had a way of sucking the oxygen out of the room, whether you were at the 5,000-foot altitude of Fort Collins or in your living room at sea level on Oahu. And yet, receiver Cedric Byrd, making his UH debut out of Long Beach City College, had plenty of room to breathe. Byrd caught 11 balls for 181 yards — including a 55-yard touchdown pass — in UH’s 43-34 stunner at […]