1904 Army Cadets football team
1904 Army Cadets football | |
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Conference | Independent |
1904 record | 7–2 |
Head coach | Robert Boyers (1st year) |
Home stadium | The Plain |
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 7–2 record, shut out five of their nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 136 to 27.[1] The team's only losses were to Harvard (4–0) and Princeton (17–5). In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets defeated the Midshipmen by an 11 to 0 score.[2]
Five members of the squad were honored by one or both of Walter Camp (WC) and Caspar Whitney (CW) on the 1904 College Football 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).[3][4][5]
Schedule
Date | Time | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | ||||
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October 1 | Tufts | The Plain • West Point, NY | W 12–0 | ||||||
October 8 | Dickinson | The Plain • West Point, NY | W 18–0 | ||||||
October 17 | Harvard | The Plain • West Point, NY | L 0–5 | ||||||
October 22 | Yale | The Plain • West Point, NY | W 11–6 | ||||||
October 29 | Williams | The Plain • West Point, NY | W 16–0 | ||||||
November 5 | Princeton | The Plain • West Point, NY | L 6–12 | ||||||
November 12 | NYU | The Plain • West Point, NY | W 41–0 | ||||||
November 19 | Syracuse | The Plain • West Point, NY | W 21–5 | ||||||
November 26 | vs. Navy | Franklin Field • Philadelphia, PA (Army–Navy Game) | W 11–0 | ||||||
All times are in Eastern Time. |
References
- ↑ "Army Yearly Results (1900-1904)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
- ↑ "1904 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
- ↑ "Camp's Idea Of Football Stars: Yale Coach Puts Two Western Men in His Selection". The Daily Review (Decatur, IL). December 28, 1904.
- ↑ "Camp's 1904 All America Football Team". Capital Times. November 24, 1904.
- ↑ Caspar Whitney (Jan 1905). "The Sportsman's View-Point" (PDF). Outing.