1898 Army Cadets football team

1898 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–2–1
Head coach
CaptainLeon Kromer
Home stadiumThe Plain
1898 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   11 – 0 – 0
Drexel   –   7 – 0 – 0
Princeton   –   11 – 0 – 1
Penn   –   12 – 1 – 0
Buffalo   –   8 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   10 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   9 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   9 – 2 – 0
Yale   –   9 – 2 – 0
Dickinson   –   8 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   8 – 2 – 1
Wesleyan   –   7 – 3 – 0
Western Penn.   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   6 – 4 – 0
Carlisle   –   6 – 4 – 0
Penn State   –   6 – 4 – 0
Pittsburgh College   –   6 – 4 – 1
Army   –   3 – 2 – 1
Vermont   –   3 – 2 – 1
Holy Cross   –   5 – 4 – 1
Bucknell   –   4 – 4 – 3
Fordham   –   1 – 1 – 2
Franklin & Marshall   –   4 – 4 – 2
New Hampshire   –   4 – 4 – 0
Amherst   –   4 – 5 – 1
Villanova   –   2 – 4 – 1
Lehigh   –   3 – 6 – 1
Boston College   –   2 – 5 – 1
Colgate   –   2 – 5 – 1
Temple   –   2 – 5 – 0
Lafayette   –   3 – 8 – 0
NYU   –   1 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 6 – 1
Tufts   –   1 – 9 – 0
Geneva   –   0 – 6 – 1

The 1898 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1898 college football season. In their second season under head coach Herman Koehler, the Cadets compiled a 3–2–1 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 90 to 51. The Cadets' two losses came against undefeated co-national champion Harvard and Yale. The Army–Navy Game was not played in 1898.[1]

Four Army Cadets were honored on the 1898 College Football All-America Team. Fullback Charles Romeyn was a consensus first-team All-American, receiving first-team honors from Caspar Whitney and the New York Sun. Quarterback Leon Kromer, tackle Robert Foy, and end Walter Smith were recognized as third-team All-Americans by Walter Camp.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1Tufts
W 40–0
October 83:30 p.m.Wesleyan
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 27–81,500[2][3]
October 15Harvard
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 0–28[4]
October 22Lehigh
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 18–0
October 29Yale
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 0–105,000[5]
November 5Princeton
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
T 5–55,000[6]

References

  1. ^ "1898 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. ^ "West Point, 27; Wesleyan, 8". New-York Tribune. New York, New York. October 9, 1897. p. 8. Retrieved July 27, 2025 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  3. ^ "West Point Wins From Wesleyan". The New York Times. New York, New York. October 9, 1897. p. 5. Retrieved July 27, 2025 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "Fierce Rushes: West Point Line Unable to Withstand The Harvard Onslaught". The Boston Globe. October 16, 1898. pp. 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Fall In Brilliant Defeat: West Point Beaten By Yale After a Game Struggle". Chicago Tribune. October 30, 1898. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Glory for West Point: The Cadets Tackle the Tigers and Quit Even". The Sun. New York, N.Y. November 6, 1898. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
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