Army vs. Princeton
Army and Princeton have 13 meetings on file, the first in 1893; Princeton leads the series 6–4–3 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s even at 4–4, and Army has won the last 3. Share
- Army wins
- 4
- Princeton wins
- 6
- Ties
- 3
- Earliest on file
- 1893
- Longest streak
- 3 Army
- Current streak
- 3 Army
- Last 10 meetings
- even at 4–4
- Most recent
- 1982
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 0–3–1 | ||||||||||
| 1900s | 0–2–2 | ||||||||||
| 1930s | 1–0 | ||||||||||
| 1940s | 1–1 | ||||||||||
| 1980s | 2–0 |
- Average margin
- 13.2 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Army
- 2–5–3 Army’s record at home
- At Princeton
- 1–2 Princeton’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
- Army’s biggest win1981: Army 34, Princeton 0by 34 points
- Princeton’s biggest win1893: Princeton 36, Army 4by 32 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

1893 · New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], Nov 19, 1893

1896 · The sun, New York, Oct 18, 1896

1898 · New-York tribune, Nov 6, 1898

1899 · The Saint Paul globe, St. Paul, Minn., Oct 22, 1899

1901 · The age-herald, Nov 10, 1901
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 16, 1982 | Army 20, Princeton 14 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 17, 1981 | Army 34, Princeton 0 | at Army | ||
| Nov 21, 1942 | Army 40, Princeton 7 | at Army | ||
| Nov 23, 1940 | Princeton 26, Army 19 | at Princeton | ||
| Nov 19, 1938 | Army 19, Princeton 7 | at Princeton | ||
| Oct 31, 1908 | Army 0, Princeton 0 | at Army | ||
| Nov 10, 1906 | Princeton 8, Army 0 | at Army | ||
| Nov 5, 1904 | Princeton 12, Army 6 | at Army | ||
| Nov 9, 1901 | Army 6, Princeton 6 | at Army | ||
| Oct 21, 1899 | Princeton 23, Army 0 | at Army | ||
| Nov 5, 1898 | Army 5, Princeton 5 | at Army | ||
| Oct 17, 1896 | Princeton 11, Army 0 | at Army | ||
| Nov 18, 1893 | Princeton 36, Army 4 | at Army |
Every game is listed as played on the field.