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It was a really bad football era for the service academies by ShermanOaksND
Especially Army. They went 0-10 in 1973, capped by a 51-0 loss to Navy.
Had Ara wanted to, he could've handed them their worst loss in history. Instead, he was happy to settle for a 55-3 final, but Tim Simon ran back a punt 73 yards for an unwanted final TD, thus matching Army's margin of victory over ND in 1944. Army's worst loss was in 1972, 77-7 to Nebraska -- at West Point and on network TV.
Vietnam took a major toll on service academies' recruiting starting in the mid-late 1960s, and they still haven't fully recovered. The last one to snag a major bowl bid was Air Force, who lost the 1971 Sugar Bowl to Tennessee.