The teams’ ties to the military academies, coupled with the players’ future service in their respective branches, make this a football game like no other. The annual turnout for the games, most often held in the historical host city of Philadelphia, are evidence of that.
The same will be true when the teams kick off for the 123rd time on Saturday in the City of Brotherly Love. As always, neither rankings nor records nor postseason implications matter when the Black Knights and Midshipmen meet up on the field.
There is no greater game for Army — “Beat Navy!” — or Navy — “Beat Army!”
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With that, The Sporting News has everything you need to know about the Army-Navy rivalries, including the all-time record, past scores and locations associated with the game:
Army-Navy all-time record
Navy leads the all-time series with a 62-53-7 over the Black Knights. The Midshipmen also enjoy the longest win streak in the series: 14 years from 2002 through 2015, which was finally broken with a 21-17 Army victory in 2016. Navy’s largest margin of victory came in 1973 in a 51-0 shutout.
The Black Knights have enjoyed plenty of success in this game as well, enjoying its longest win streak (five games) from 1927-33 and again from 1992-96. It also enjoyed a 12-year unbeaten streak from 1922-33, which also included two ties and two years the game wasn’t held.
Army also enjoys a 2-0 record vs. Navy in “Game of the Century” meetings — contests in which the teams were ranked in the top two. The top-ranked Black Knights won both the 1944 and ‘45 meetings against No. 2 Navy, winning with scores of 23-7 and 32-13, respectively.
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Army-Navy past scores
1890s: Navy leads 3-2
1900s: Army leads 5-3-1
1910s: Series tied 4-4
1920s: Army leads 4-2-2
1930s: Army leads 7-3
1940s: Army leads 5-4-1
1950s: Navy leads 6-3-1
1960s: Navy leads 5-4-1
1970s: Navy leads 7-3
1980s: Navy leads 5-4-1
1990s: Army leads 7-3
2000s: Navy leads 9-1
2010s: Navy leads 7-3
2020s: Series tied 1-1
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Army-Navy locations
The Army-Navy game is traditionally held in Philadelphia, with the 2022 game representing the 90th game played in the City of Brother Love. Army has hosted the game in West Point four times, with Navy hosting it in Annapolis three times. The other 26 games through 2022 were held at the following venues:
Princeton, N. J. (1905) New York (1913, 1915-16, 1919-21, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1930-31) Baltimore (1924, 1944, 2000, 2007, 2014, 2016) Chicago (1926) Pasadena, Calif. (1983) Landover, Md. (2011) East Rutherford, N. J. (1989, 1993, 1997, 2002, 2021)
The 90 games held in Philadelphia have been held at four different stadiums, starting with Franklin Field, then Municipal Stadium (before it was renamed to John F. Kenny Stadium), Veterans Stadium and, currently, Lincoln Financial Field:
Franklin Field (18 games from 1988 through 1935) Municipal Stadium/John F. Kennedy Stadium (41 games from 1936 through 1979) Veterans Stadium (17 games from 1980 through 2001) Lincoln Financial Field (13 games from 2003 through 2019)