Navy vs. Army
Saturday, November 26, 1955 Share
No. 7 Army beat No. 8 Navy 14–6. It was their 56th meeting; after it, Army led the series 29–22–4 in the games on file.
FinalAttendance 102,000
In the newspapers

Evening star, District of Columbia, November 27, 1955, page 66
Read the text
Army Uses Sheer Power to Bar Middies From Cotton Bowl 14–6 Errors Upset Navy; Uebel, Lash Score PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 26.- Power football, not the magic of a superb forward passer. prevailed this clear. cold afternoon in Municipal Stadium as Army, stronger in the line and harder hitting in the backfield, upset Navy, 1916, before the customary star -spangled crowd of 100000 people. Navy’s hopes Of playing Texas, Christian in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas-presumably the Did was all wrapped up if the Mid
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
- FOOTBALL — ARMY–NAVYAfter traditional pre-game pageantry, Cadets and Midshipmen clash in the 56th playing of the interservice classic, and its one of the grid upsets of the year, as Navy, after a brilliant first-half showing, is downed by…
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.
Photos from the game

Photo: Griffith Teller, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
From the game’s category on Wikimedia Commons, free licenses only, each credited.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Navy 63% to win. Army won as Elo’s underdog.
The series
Every Navy–Army gameOfficially, 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 70 since this game.
| 2025 | Navy 17, Army 16 | |
| 2024 | Navy 31, Army 13 | |
| 2023 | Army 17, Navy 11 | |
| 2022 | Army 20, Navy 17 | |
| 2021 | Navy 17, Army 13 | |
| 2020 | Army 15, Navy 0 |
Around this game
Navy
- Next gamevs. William & MarySept. 29, 1956
- SeasonNavy in 1955
- ProgramNavy history and records
Army
- Next gamevs. VMISept. 29, 1956
- SeasonArmy in 1955
- ProgramArmy history and records

