Baltimore, Dallas, Jacksonville, Fla., and East Rutherford,...

Baltimore, Dallas, Jacksonville, Fla., and East Rutherford, N.J., are trying to lure the 1989 Army-Navy football game. The game has been played in Philadelphia in all but one of the last 43 years.

The 1988 game will be the last of five consecutive appearances in Philadelphia required by the service academies’ long-term contract with the city. Under the contract, the game also must be played in Philadelphia in three of the four years through 1992.

That contract was signed after the academies’ desertion of the traditional Philadelphia site in 1983, the first time in 39 years the game was played anywhere else.

Pasadena flew the traveling road show out to the West Coast for a game in the Rose Bowl that year. But Army and Navy made only $150,000 apiece for their athletic programs from the game, compared with $850,000 each the year before in Philadelphia, and quickly signed the current deal.