Army vs. Navy
Saturday, November 30, 1957 Share
No. 8 Navy beat No. 10 Army 14–0. It was their 58th meeting; after it, Army led the series 29–23–5 in the games on file.
FinalAttendance 100,000
In the newspapers
Evening star, Washington, D.C., December 1, 1957, page 65
Read the text
Oldham Gets All Points’in Decisive Win PHILADELPHIA, Dec. LIN the rain and mud on this cold. gray afternoon, Ned Oldham. stocky halfback from Cuyahoga Falls. Ohio. led Navy TO a convincing 14–0 decision over Army to nail down the Eastern football championship as well as permission to play Rice in the Cotton Bowl on New Years Day. 1t was undeniably a team victory. yet not even the splen-
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-NAVY CLASSICThe game of games sees favored Navy hang a 14-0 beating on the fighting Cadets. Oldham of Navy has a field day, scoring two touchdowns, one a 44-yard run back, and kicks both points
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 53% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Army–Navy 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 68 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
Army
- Next gamevs. South CarolinaSept. 27, 1958
- SeasonArmy in 1957
- ProgramArmy history and records
Navy
- Next gamevs. RiceJan. 1, 1958, Cotton Bowl
- SeasonNavy in 1957
- ProgramNavy history and records