Army vs. Illinois
Army and Illinois have 8 meetings on file, the first in 1929; Army leads the series 4–3–1 in the games on file. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Army 4–3. Share
- Army wins
- 4
- Illinois wins
- 3
- Ties
- 1
- Earliest on file
- 1929
- Longest streak
- 2 Army
- Current streak
- 1 Army
- Last 10 meetings
- Army 4–3
- Most recent
- 1985
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1930s | 2–1 | ||||||||||
| 1940s | 1–0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1950s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 1–0 |
- Both ranked
- 1 meeting: Army 0, Illinois 0; 1 both in the top 10
- Average margin
- 6.1 points; 5 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Army
- 2–0 Army’s record at home
- At Illinois
- 3–1–1 Illinois’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–0 Army first
- Shutouts
- 3
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Army’s biggest win1930: Army 13, Illinois 0by 13 points
- Illinois’s biggest win1929: Illinois 17, Army 7by 10 points
- Upset1959: Illinois 20, Army 14Illinois had a 33% chance, by our ratings before kickoff
- Ranked showdown1947: Army 0, Illinois 0 (tie)No. 5 Army at No. 6 Illinois
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.
Stars of the series
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1929 · Brownsville herald. (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, Texas, Nov 10, 1929
1930 · The Daily Alaska empire, Nov 10, 1930
1933 · Evening star, Oct 22, 1933
1947 · The Daily Alaska empire, Alaska, Oct 13, 1947
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
| Dec 31, 1985 | Army 31, Illinois 29 | Neutral site | Peach Bowl | |
| Oct 3, 1959 | Illinois 20, 4Army 14 | at Illinois | ||
| Oct 9, 1948 | 5Army 26, Illinois 21 | at Illinois | ||
| Oct 11, 1947 | 6Illinois 0, 5Army 0 | at Illinois | ||
| Nov 3, 1934 | Illinois 7, Army 0 | at Illinois | ||
| Oct 21, 1933 | Army 6, Illinois 0 | at Army | ||
| Nov 8, 1930 | Army 13, Illinois 0 | at Army | ||
| Nov 9, 1929 | Illinois 17, Army 7 | at Illinois |
Every game is listed as played on the field.