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Navy vs. West Virginia

Navy and West Virginia have 8 meetings on file, the first in 1907; Navy leads the series 6–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Navy 6–⁠2.

Navy wins
6
West Virginia wins
2
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1907
Longest streak
3 Navy
Current streak
1 Navy
Last 10 meetings
Navy 6–⁠2
Most recent
1999

The series at a glance

’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1900s1–⁠0
1910s2–⁠1
1940s1–⁠0
1960s1–⁠0
1990s1–⁠1
Average margin
19.8 points; 4 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Navy
4–⁠2 Navy’s record at home
At West Virginia
0–⁠2 West Virginia’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

  1. Navy’s biggest win1963: Navy 51, West Virginia 7by 44 points
  2. West Virginia’s biggest win1998: West Virginia 45, Navy 24by 21 points
  3. Upset1999: Navy 31, West Virginia 28Navy had a 27% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Navy and West Virginia, 1907 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 The Washington herald's story of the 1907 game: ANNAPOLIS SCORES BUT ONCE Navy Surprised by Strength of West Virginia University. Middies Get Touchdown In First Half. but Are Held Time After Time in Second Period.

    1907 · The Washington herald, District of Columbia, Nov 3, 1907

  • The Evening capital and Maryland gazette's story of the 1911 game: MAKE RECORD SCORE Middies Find The West Virginia Aggregation Easy Meat In Sat- urday Afternoons Game. THE BEST FORM YET Shifts In Formation OF Navy Team Seem To Increase Whole Effect OF Fighting Machine.

    1911 · Evening capital and Maryland gazette, Annapolis, Md., Nov 13, 1911

  • The The Washington herald's story of the 1916 game: WEST VIRGINIA is DEFEATED BY NAVY

    1916 · The Washington herald, District of Columbia, Oct 22, 1916

  • The Evening star's story of the 1917 game: M|DD|ES SHUT OUT BY WEST VIRGINIA Contest, Full of FumbIes, Is Finally Won by Harris Long Run, 7 to 0.

    1917 · Evening star, Oct 7, 1917

  • The Evening star's story of the 1941 game: Nuvy Continued From First Page }

    1941 · Evening star, Oct 4, 1941

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 2, 1999Navy 31, West Virginia 28at West Virginia
Oct 3, 199816West Virginia 45, Navy 24at Navy
Sep 21, 19639Navy 51, West Virginia 7at West Virginia
Oct 4, 1941Navy 40, West Virginia 0at Navy
Oct 6, 1917West Virginia 7, Navy 0at Navy
Oct 21, 1916Navy 12, West Virginia 7at Navy
Nov 11, 1911Navy 32, West Virginia 0at Navy
Nov 2, 1907Navy 6, West Virginia 0at Navy

Every game is listed as played on the field.