Rags to riches: QB Bryson Daily primed to lead Army in The Bronx

The Army star quarterback will stand under the lights of Yankee Stadium on Saturday night, in prime time on NBC, leading the No. 19 Black Knights (9-0) into their biggest non-Navy matchup in 66 years, against No. 6 Notre Dame (9-1).

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Bryson Daily doesn’t know where he’ll be next year. He could be in Alabama or South Korea, Michigan or Germany or the Middle East. He will be a second lieutenant in the Army, deployed to a to-be-determined military base.

His hope is to serve in the infantry. “We take classes, like military science, that are directly getting us ready for the job we have ahead,” Daily said. “It’s something we’re always thinking about.



” Soon, Daily will be one of more than 450,000 active-duty troops in the Army. Today, he is one of one..