Navy vs. Army

Saturday, November 30, 1935

Army beat Navy 28–⁠6. It was their 36th meeting; after it, Army led the series 20–⁠12–⁠3 in the games on file.

Neutral siteNavy5–⁠4 in 1935
6
Neutral siteArmy6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1935
28

Final

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Army Runs Wild.

    Evening star, December 2, 1935, page 13

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    Army Runs Wild. A RMY piled up four touchdowns in u little more than a period and then held of Navy throughout the second half the win the annual service duel before 81 900 at Philadelphia, 28–⁠6. Whitley Grove, playing the finest

  • The Imperial Valley press's story: 7 I hree Bio Grid Teams In Country

    Imperial Valley press, California, December 2, 1935, page 6 (results column)

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    7 I hree Bio Grid Teams In Country NEW YORK, Dec. 2. U.P-The Maroon and Gold of Minnesota, the Red and Blue of S. M. u, and the Orange and Black of Princeton are the winning colors of the 1885 football season. Picking the mythical national football champion from this trio seems to be largely matter of where you live and which team you’ve seen in action. I’m the far north country the natives swear by Minnesota, unbeaten in three years of grid warfare. Along the eastern Seaboard the hue and cry is for Princeton; unbeated and united in nine straight games. Down i’m the cattle and cotton country of Texas, Southern Meth odist is rated the champion of champions. Minnesota and Princeton, having completed their schedules, will stay at the top, unbeaten and united. They have called it a season. But S. M. U. has one game left to play against Texas A. q M Saturday, and following that has reservations to play Stanford in the Rose Bowl New Years day S. M. u. is. great, but the old Rose Bowl jinX which has razed the hopes of many another team may overtake the Mustangs if Coach Matty Bell is letting his play ers read the newspapers these days. North Carolina had its Duke, Notre Dame had its Northwestern, New York U. had its Fordham, to men tion few Waterloos of recent men, ory. The ten best teams in the country, ranking them off the calibre OF their opposition over the route, appear to be: l. Minnesota. 2. S. NJ. u. 8. Princeton. 4. Texas Christian. 5. Ohio State. 6. Louisiana State. !. Notre Dame. 8. Stanford. 9. California. 10. Fordham. The season came to a blazing eli max Saturday when S. M. U. beat T. c. U. 20–⁠14. Princeton crushed Yale 38–⁠7, and Army smothered Navy 28–⁠6. The usual upsets were supplied by Columbia, which beat Dartmouth, 1877, Georgia Tech which blasted Georgia, 1877, and Baylor, which nosed out Rice 80. The honey crop in Oregon is about normal this year.

  • The The Daily Alaska empire's story: GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY

    The Daily Alaska empire, December 2, 1935, page 5 (results column)

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    GRID SCORES ON SATURDAY The following are final scores of important football games played last Saturday afternoon: Washington State T; St. Mary’s ‘ Idaho 6; UCLA 13. Princeton 38; Yale T. Army 28; Navy 6. Western Maryland IA; Georgeton 10. Holy Cross 20; Boston College 6. Columbia 13; Dartmouth T. Auburn 27;. Florida 6. Georgia Tech 19; Georgia ‘. Louisiana State Al; Tulane O. Southern Methodist 20; Tex s Christian IA.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

On the newsreel

  • ARMY SCUTTLES NAVY, 28-6Speed, deception and power, coupled with an aerial bombardment that sends the Middies reeling, give the Cadets an overwhelming victory before 79,000 fans in the annual Service classic despite a game fight put up by the…Universal Newsreel, December 2, 1935. Catalog record at the National Archives

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Navy 50% to win. Army won as Elo’s underdog.

Officially, Navy leads 64–⁠55–⁠7; as played, 63–⁠55–⁠7 in the 125 games on file; the official count covers all 126 meetings, counting the 90 since this game.

Recent meetings
2025Navy 17, Army 16
2024Navy 31, Army 13
2023Army 17, Navy 11
2022Army 20, Navy 17
2021Navy 17, Army 13
2020Army 15, Navy 0

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