Army vs. South Carolina

Army and South Carolina have 3 meetings on file, the first in 1952; Army leads the series 2–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 3 meetings it’s Army 2–⁠1.

Army wins
2
South Carolina wins
1
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1952
Longest streak
1 Army
Current streak
1 Army
Last 10 meetings
Army 2–⁠1
Most recent
1958

The series at a glance

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

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 South Carolina, 1952 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

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 1952 game: &-Yard Run al Start Leads Army 10 28-7 Win Over Gamecocks

    1952 · Evening star, Sep 28, 1952

  • The Evening star's story of the 1958 game: SPORTS ROUNDUP Terps and Navy Win; Glenn Beats Round Table

    1958 · Evening star, Sep 28, 1958

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 27, 19588Army 45, 18South Carolina 8at Army
Sep 25, 1954South Carolina 34, 18Army 20at Army
Sep 27, 1952Army 28, South Carolina 7at Army

Every game is listed as played on the field.