Army vs. Furman

Army and Furman have 5 meetings on file, the first in 1930; Army leads the series 5–⁠0 in the games on file. Over the last 5 meetings it’s Army 5–⁠0, and Army has won the last 5.

Army wins
5
Furman wins
0
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1930
Longest streak
5 Army
Current streak
5 Army
Last 10 meetings
Army 5–⁠0
Most recent
1955

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1930s3–⁠0
1950s2–⁠0
Average margin
39.6 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Army
5–⁠0 Army’s record at home
Shutouts
4

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Army’s biggest win1955: Army 81, Furman 0by 81 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Army and Furman, 1930 on13001500170019401960198020002020

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 Evening star's story of the 1953 game: Smooth Army Team Routs Furman, 40; Ex-Lineman Stars

    1953 · Evening star, Sep 27, 1953

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 24, 1955Army 81, Furman 0at Army
Sep 26, 1953Army 41, Furman 0at Army
Sep 30, 1939Army 16, Furman 7at Army
Oct 1, 1932Army 13, Furman 0at Army
Oct 4, 1930Army 54, Furman 0at Army

Every game is listed as played on the field.