1904 Army Cadets football team

1904 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2
Head coach
Captains
Home stadiumThe Plain
1904 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn   –   12 – 0 – 0
Western U. of Penn.   –   10 – 0 – 0
Dartmouth   –   7 – 0 – 1
Yale   –   10 – 1 – 0
Amherst   –   9 – 1 – 0
Colgate   –   8 – 1 – 1
Carlisle   –   10 – 2 – 0
Lafayette   –   8 – 2 – 0
Princeton   –   8 – 2 – 0
Army   –   7 – 2 – 0
Fordham   –   4 – 1 – 1
Harvard   –   7 – 2 – 1
Dickinson   –   8 – 3 – 1
Columbia   –   7 – 3 – 0
Cornell   –   7 – 3 – 0
Villanova   –   4 – 2 – 1
Syracuse   –   6 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –   6 – 3 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   5 – 3 – 1
Penn State   –   6 – 4 – 0
Temple   –   3 – 2 – 0
Brown   –   6 – 5 – 0
Bucknell   –   3 – 3 – 0
Springfield Training School   –   4 – 4 – 1
NYU   –   3 – 6 – 0
Holy Cross   –   2 – 5 – 2
Wesleyan   –   3 – 7 – 0
Geneva   –   1 – 4 – 2
Vermont   –   1 – 5 – 2
New Hampshire   –   2 – 5 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 6 – 2
Tufts   –   2 – 9 – 1
Lehigh   –   1 – 8 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   0 – 10 – 0

The 1904 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1904 college football season. In their first season under head coach Robert Boyers, the Cadets compiled a record of 7–2, shut out five of their nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 136 to 27. The team's two losses were to Harvard and Princeton. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets defeated the Midshipmen 11–0.[1]

Five members of the squad were honored by one or both of Walter Camp (WC) and Caspar Whitney (CW) on the All-America team. They are: center Arthur Tipton (WC-1, CW-1); back Henry Torney (CW-1); end Alexander Garfield Gillespie (WC-2); halfback Frederick Prince (CW-2); and tackle Thomas Doe (WC-3).[2][3][4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 1TuftsW 12–0
October 8Dickinson
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 18–0[5]
October 17Harvard
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 0–4
October 22Yale
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 11–6
October 29Williams
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 16–0
November 5Princeton
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 6–12
November 12NYU
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 41–0[6]
November 19Syracuse
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 21–5
November 26vs. NavyW 11–0

References

  1. ^ "1904 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. ^ "Camp's Idea Of Football Stars: Yale Coach Puts Two Western Men in His Selection". The Daily Review (Decatur, IL). December 28, 1904.
  3. ^ "Camp's 1904 All America Football Team". Capital Times. November 24, 1904.
  4. ^ Caspar Whitney (January 1905). "The Sportsman's View-Point" (PDF). Outing. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 23, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  5. ^ "Dickinson Loses: Beaten Out by the West Point Eleven, 18 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 9, 1904. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "No match for the Army". The Sun. November 13, 1904. p. 13. Retrieved February 3, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.