Army vs. Cornell

Army and Cornell have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1907; Army leads the series 3–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Army 3–⁠2, and Army has won the last 3.

Army wins
3
Cornell wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1907
Longest streak
3 Army
Current streak
3 Army
Last 10 meetings
Army 3–⁠2
Most recent
1948

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s0–⁠1
1940s3–⁠1
Both ranked
1 meeting: Army 1, Cornell 0
Average margin
23 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Army
2–⁠2 Army’s record at home
At Cornell
0–⁠1 Cornell’s record at home
Shutouts
1

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Army’s biggest win1946: Army 46, Cornell 21by 25 points
  2. Cornell’s biggest win1940: Cornell 45, Army 0by 45 points
  3. Ranked showdown1948: Army 27, Cornell 6No. 5 Army at No. 12 Cornell

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Army and Cornell, 1907 on130015001700192019401960198020002020

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

  • The The sun's story of the 1907 game: CORNELL DEFEATS THE ARMY ITHACANS SNOW GREAT MASTERY or THE FORWARD PASS. Score Of IA 90 no I'm FaVOr % the MIG Rcd Team Due % the Now Football west Pointers Unnhle 20 Ftorce the DppSs- ing line COnslstcnelY FOR Coed Gains.

    1907 · The sun, New York [N.Y.], Nov 10, 1907

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story of the 1940 game: Cornell Downs Army

    1940 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Oct 13, 1940

  • The Evening star's story of the 1942 game: Army's Quick Score JoIts Cornell Into B-fo-8 Defeat Big Red Never Comes Back From WoIIop Early in Contest

    1942 · Evening star, Oct 11, 1942

  • The The Wilmington morning star's story of the 1946 game: CADETS EARN 46-2l VICTORY OVER CORNELL Doc Blanchard Stays On Sidelines For Second Tilt

    1946 · The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, Oct 6, 1946

  • The Evening star's story of the 1948 game: Statistics,

    1948 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Oct 24, 1948

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

Oct 23, 19485Army 27, 12Cornell 6at Cornell
Oct 5, 1946Army 46, Cornell 21at Army
Oct 10, 1942Army 28, Cornell 8at Army
Oct 12, 1940Cornell 45, Army 0at Army
Nov 9, 1907Cornell 14, Army 10at Army

Every game is listed as played on the field.