Army vs. Gettysburg

Army and Gettysburg first met in 1915 and have played 3 times; Army leads the series 3–⁠0. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Army 3–⁠0, and Army has won the last 3.

Army wins
3
Gettysburg wins
0
Ties
0
First meeting
1915
Longest streak
3 Army
Current streak
3 Army
Last 10 meetings
Army 3–⁠0
Most recent
1935

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1910s1–⁠0
1920s1–⁠0
1930s1–⁠0
Average margin
34 points; 0 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Army
3–⁠0 Army’s record at home
Shutouts
2

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

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Army and Gettysburg, 1915 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 New-York tribune's story of the 1915 game: WEST POINT DOES A LITTLE BETTER Rolls Up Fair Sized Score on Gettysburg Eleven.

    1915 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Oct 10, 1915

  • The The Nome daily nugget's story of the 1935 game: Football Scores

    1935 · The Nome daily nugget, Oct 14, 1935

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 12, 1935Army 54, Gettysburg 0at Army
Oct 5, 1929Army 33, Gettysburg 7at Army
Oct 9, 1915Army 22, Gettysburg 0at Army

Every game is listed as played on the field.