Army vs. California
Army and California have 6 meetings on file, the first in 1960; Army leads the series 4–2 in the games on file. Over the last 6 meetings it’s Army 4–2. Share
- Army wins
- 4
- California wins
- 2
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1960
- Longest streak
- 3 Army
- Current streak
- 1 Army
- Last 10 meetings
- Army 4–2
- Most recent
- 1980
The series at a glance
- Average margin
- 14.8 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Army
- 2–1 Army’s record at home
- At California
- 1–2 California’s record at home
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Army’s biggest win1960: Army 28, California 10by 18 points
- California’s biggest win1973: California 51, Army 6by 45 points
Both programs through the years
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
From the newspapers
1960 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 4, 1960
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 earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.
Every game
| Sep 20, 1980 | Army 26, California 19 | at Army | ||
| Sep 28, 1974 | California 27, Army 14 | at California | ||
| Sep 29, 1973 | California 51, Army 6 | at Army | ||
| Oct 12, 1968 | Army 10, 16California 7 | at Army | ||
| Nov 12, 1966 | Army 6, California 3 | at California | ||
| Oct 1, 1960 | Army 28, California 10 | at California |
Every game is listed as played on the field.