1904 Army Cadets football team

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]

1904 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2
Head coach
CaptainThomas Doe, Ernest Graves Sr.
Home stadiumThe Plain
1904 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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

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.
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