at the Orange Bowl on January 1st, 1961 to watch Mizzou spank his Navy team. Even though he was a Harvard grad, Kennedy pulled for the Naval Academy because he was in the Navy during WW2. Navy had the Heisman Trophy winner, Joe Bellino, in the game, but he wasn’t good enough.
https://youtu.be/THbpaz_EiRA
Bonus trivia...Truman hosted the Mizzou team that had just knocked off Navy in Annapolis in 1948:
https://muarchives.missouri.edu/images/Truman_1948_big.jpg
Truman joked that he couldn’t be seen in public rooting for the Tigers because he was the Commander in Chief.