Secretaries Cup
2016 game action | |
| Sport | Football |
|---|---|
| Teams | |
| First meeting | October 15, 1949 77 years ago Coast Guard, 21–14 |
| Latest meeting | November 15, 2025 Merchant Marine, 39–38 |
| Next meeting | 2026 |
| Stadiums | Brooks Stadium (Kings Point) and Cadet Memorial Field (Coast Guard) Fenway Park (2025 only) |
| Trophy | Secretaries' Cup |
| Statistics | |
| Meetings total | 54 |
| All-time series | Merchant Marine leads, 38–16 |
| Trophy series | Merchant Marine leads, 31–14 |
| Largest victory | Merchant Marine, 42–0 (1992) |
| Longest win streak | Merchant Marine, 7 (1965–1978) |
| Current win streak | Merchant Marine, 1 |
The Secretaries' Cup is an annual college football game in the northeast United States between the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Both academies compete in NCAA Division III athletics.
The Secretaries Cup is an intense rivalry game for both schools. Though less well known than the Army–Navy Game, the Secretaries Cup is often described as a small-college version of that matchup.
The two campuses are at opposite ends of Long Island Sound. The game alternates between the Coast Guard's Cadet Memorial Field in New London, Connecticut, and the Merchant Marine's Captain Tomb Field in Kings Point, New York just east of New York City. However, on November 15, 2025 the game was played for the first time at Fenway Park in Boston.
The game had been played on the last Saturday of the Division III football regular season (generally mid-November) from 1991 through 2005. When the Coast Guard Academy joined the New England Football Conference in 2006, the rivalry became a non-conference game and was moved to September. In 2017, the game moved back to November when the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) began sponsoring football with both teams as conference members.