Army vs. VMI

Army and VMI have 16 meetings on file, the first in 1917; Army leads the series 15–⁠1 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Army 9–⁠1, and Army has won the last 6.

Army wins
15
VMI wins
1
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1917
Longest streak
9 Army
Current streak
6 Army
Last 10 meetings
Army 9–⁠1
Most recent
2019

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
1930s2–⁠0
1940s2–⁠0
1950s2–⁠0
1960s1–⁠0
1970s1–⁠0
1980s0–⁠1
1990s2–⁠0
2000s2–⁠0
2010s2–⁠0
Average margin
22.7 points; 3 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Army
15–⁠1 Army’s record at home
Shutouts
2

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

Games that tell the story

  1. Army’s biggest win2006: Army 62, VMI 7by 55 points
  2. VMI’s biggest win1981: VMI 14, Army 7by 7 points

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Army and VMI, 1917 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.

Stars of the series

Biggest days

Kelvin Hopkins Jr. Army17 carries, 216 yards, 2 TD2019 Rushing

Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1956 game: Army Shows Its Power, Crushing VMI, 32-12

    1956 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Sep 30, 1956

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.

Photos

From the rivalry’s and its games’ categories on Wikimedia Commons (free licenses only, each credited).

Every game

Nov 16, 2019Army 47, VMI 6at Army
Oct 30, 2010Army 29, VMI 7at Army
Nov 14, 2009Army 22, VMI 17at Army
Oct 7, 2006Army 62, VMI 7at Army
Sep 25, 1993Army 31, VMI 9at Army
Sep 22, 1990Army 41, VMI 17at Army
Sep 19, 1981VMI 14, Army 7at Army
Sep 17, 1977Army 27, VMI 14at Army
Sep 25, 1965Army 21, VMI 7at Army
Sep 29, 195616Army 32, VMI 12at Army
Nov 1, 1952Army 42, VMI 14at Army
Oct 29, 19492Army 40, VMI 14at Army
Oct 11, 1941Army 27, VMI 20at Army
Oct 30, 1937Army 20, VMI 7at Army
Oct 7, 1933Army 32, VMI 0at Army
Oct 13, 1917Army 34, VMI 0at Army

Every game is listed as played on the field.