Army vs. Navy

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, December 2, 1951, page 58

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  Niddies Quickly Pile Up Record Victory Margin e6,1l6 See Game; Cadets Too Small And inexperienced PHILADELPHIA, Dec. /. - In less than Is minutes on this pleas ant afternoon the Naval Academy scored as many points as it had in any complete football game against Army in go years. Then, off to a 21–⁠0 lead in the first quarter, the midshipmen poured it on their outclassed service rivals and won by a whopping 42–⁠7 score before crowd of 96,116 spectators. 1t was the biggest Navy score in the history of the classic. Contributing to Navy’s triumph was an electrifying 101-yard touchdown run-longest in Army

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  The Daily Alaska empire, December 3, 1951, page 2 (results column)

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  Stars of Grid Games Saturday Laverne (ShowboaD Boykin, Mississippi = Scored seven touch downs, one on an 85-yard run, as his team crushed Mississippi State, 49–⁠7. Johnny Raster, Navy = Ran 100 yards with an intercepted pass to score Navy’s third touchdown as the Midshipmen trounced Army, 42–⁠7. Johnny Lattner, Notre Dame = Sparked his team to a 1912 vic- tory over Southern California, SCOT ing the first touchdown and setting up the decisive tally with several brilliant runs. Bill Wade, Vanderbilt = Excelled in a losing cause as Vandy lost to Tennessee, 35–⁠27. His passes set up all his teams touchdowns and he completed 16 out of 24 for 251 yards,

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.

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 74 since this game.