and a Johnnie (slang for a student enrolled at St. John's College, Annapolis), were in a bar and the Mid challenged the Johnnie by stating that Midshipmen could beat St. John's at any sport. The St. John's student selected croquet. Since then, every April on the St. John’s lawn, thousands attend the annual croquet match between St. John's and the 28th Company of the Brigade of Midshipmen (originally the 34th Company before the Brigade was reduced to 30 companies). As of 2017, the Midshipmen had a record of 7 wins and 28 losses to the St John's team. Championships NCAA team championships Navy has won 5 NCAA team national championships. Men's (5) Fencing (3): 1950, 1959, 1962 Outdoor Track & Field (1): 1945 Soccer (1): 1964 See also: American Athletic Conference NCAA team championships List of NCAA schools with the most NCAA Division I team championships Other national team championships The following 79 national team titles were not bestowed by the NCAA (2 were unofficial NCAA championships): Men's Swimming and Diving (2): 1925, 1926 (unofficial NCAA team titles) Boxing (4): 1925, 1926, 1928, 1931 Fencing (25): foil: 1901, 1905, 1907, 1910, 1915–1917, 1920–1922, 1925, 1929, 1939; epee: 1924, 1933, 1938, 1939, 1943; saber: 1922, 1932, 1943; 3-weapon: 1924, 1925, 1939, 1943 Gymnastics (1): 1925° Lacrosse (17): 1928, 1929, 1938, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1954, 1960–1967, 1970 Rifle (12): 1924–1926, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1948, 1967, 1969 Outdoor rifle (1): 1921 Rowing (16): 1921, 1922, 1925, 1931, 1938, 1947, 1952, 1960, 1963, 1965, 1982–1984, 1990, 1993, 1995, 2021 Soccer (1): 1932 ° In 1925 Navy gymnasts defeated Chicago, 33 - 12, in a dual meet between winners of the Intercollegiate and Western Conference championship meets. "[I]n the twenty year period from 1910 to (the end of 1929) ... Navy has participated in 91 tournaments and dual meets and won 87 of them, including all seven of the intercollegiate championship events entered." (Those seven events were conference, not national, championships.) Navy was so strong that the Intercollegiate Association asked Navy not to participate in the 1926 championship meet. Navy was not a participant in the 1926, 1927 and 1928 championship meets. see also: List of NCAA schools with the most Division I national championships Athletic Hall of Fame See footnote. See also: USNA § Campus, Anders Hall of Honor (soccer), and USNA sailing trophies and awards The Athletic Hall of