Midshipmen celebrate during Navy's rout of Army. Navy upended its rival for the sixth straight year, 38-3, Saturday in Baltimore.

Baltimore ? In the end, senior slotback Reggie Campbell was standing on a platform, a baton in his hand, leading the Navy band and smiling, as men and women sang their alma mater after the Mids’ 38-3 victory Saturday over Army.

It was the most fitting place Campbell could have been. After all, he had led the band all day long on the football field, playing a major role in Navy’s unprecedented, sixth straight victory over its archrival before a crowd of 70,610 at M&T Bank Stadium.

The victory also clinched the Commander in Chief’s Trophy, which goes to the service academy that wins the round-robin series among the Army, Navy and Air Force. Navy keeps the trophy for the fifth straight year.

“I didn’t know what I was doing,” Campbell said of his conducting effort. “To stand up in front of my peers and lead Blue and Gold, that’s a pretty big deal. … But I don’t think they were paying attention to me.”

The band? Maybe not.

But everyone else on hand Saturday had no choice but to pay attention to him in the 108th Army-Navy game.

While Navy’s defense played its best game of the season, Campbell capped his already impressive career with 227 all-purpose yards, a school record-setting 98-yard kickoff return for a touchdown and a 46-yard punt return that enabled teammate Joey Bullen to kick a 51-yard field goal.

The field goal, which hit the crossbar and bounced through, came on the final play of the first half and gave Navy a 24-3 lead.

“Let me say how proud I am of this football team,” said Navy Coach Paul Johnson, whose team will take an 8-4 record into the Poinsettia Bowl Dec. 20 in San Diego. “They have accomplished something that hasn’t been done before in the Army-Navy series, and that’s win six games in a row.

“We had our best game of the year on defense, and special teams played really well, too. Our offense couldn’t put more than two plays together in the first half … but 38 is more than 3.”