1904 Army Cadets football team

1904 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2
Head coach
CaptainThomas Doe, Ernest Graves Sr.
Home stadiumThe Plain
Seasons
← 1903
1905 →
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
Frankin & 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 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 two losses were to Harvard and Princeton. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets defeated the Midshipmen 11–0.[2]

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).[3][4][5]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 1TuftsW 12–0
October 8Dickinson
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 18–0[6]
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
November 19Syracuse
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 21–5
November 26vs. NavyW 11–0

References

  1. ^ "Army Yearly Results (1900-1904)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. ^ "1904 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  3. ^ "Camp's Idea Of Football Stars: Yale Coach Puts Two Western Men in His Selection". The Daily Review (Decatur, IL). December 28, 1904.
  4. ^ "Camp's 1904 All America Football Team". Capital Times. November 24, 1904.
  5. ^ Caspar Whitney (January 1905). "The Sportsman's View-Point" (PDF). Outing. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 23, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  6. ^ "Dickinson Loses: Beaten Out by the West Point Eleven, 18 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 9, 1904. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.