AP/NYT: Armed Forces Bowl Has Old Friends, Revived Teams

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DALLAS (AP) — June Jones and Rich Ellerson have another chapter to write in their long friendship.

They were teammates at Hawaii in 1974, and later spent a season there together on the same coaching staff. They played against each other in college, and coached against each other in Canada. And now the old friends will be on opposite sidelines again Thursday, coaching their resurgent teams in the Armed Forces Bowl.

Ellerson has Army (6-6) in its first bowl game since 1996, which was also the last winning season for the Black Knights. SMU (7-6) is in its second consecutive bowl under Jones after a 25-year bowl drought, playing this one at home after a trip to Hawaii last season.

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