Navy vs. Army

Saturday, November 26, 1955

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.

Neutral site8Navy6–⁠2–⁠1 in 1955
6
Neutral site7Army6–⁠3 in 1955
14

FinalAttendance 102,000

In the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story: Army Uses Sheer Power to Bar Middies From Cotton Bowl 14-6 Errors Upset Navy; Uebel, Lash Score

    Evening star, District of Columbia, November 27, 1955, page 66

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    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, November 28, 1955. 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.

Photos from the game

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Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Navy 63% 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 70 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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