1919 Army Cadets football team

The 1919 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1919 college football season. In their fifth non-consecutive season under head coach Charles Dudley Daly (Daly was Army's coach from 1913 to 1916), the Cadets compiled a 6–3 record, shut out five of their nine opponents, and outscored all opponents 140 to 38.[1]

1919 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3
Head coach
CaptainAlexander George
Home stadiumThe Plain
1919 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Harvard    9 0 1
Penn State    7 1 0
Swarthmore    7 1 0
Dartmouth    6 1 1
Colgate    5 1 1
New Hampshire    7 2 0
Lafayette    6 2 0
Washington & Jefferson    6 2 0
Williams    6 2 0
Syracuse    8 3 0
Penn    6 2 1
Pittsburgh    6 2 1
Lehigh    6 3 0
Princeton    4 2 1
Geneva    4 2 2
Army    6 3 0
Boston College    5 3 0
Holy Cross    5 3 0
Rutgers    5 3 0
Yale    5 3 0
Villanova    5 3 1
Brown    5 4 1
Bucknell    5 4 1
NYU    4 4 0
Carnegie Tech    3 4 0
Columbia    2 4 3
Cornell    3 5 0
Vermont    3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall    2 4 2
Tufts    2 5 0
Buffalo    0 5 1
Rhode Island State    0 8 1
Drexel    0 4 0

In the annual Army–Navy Game at the Polo Grounds in New York City, the Cadets lost to the Midshipmen 6–0. Army defeated Villanova by a lopsided 62 to 0 score, but lost to Notre Dame 12–9.[2]

End Earl Blaik was selected by Walter Camp as a third-team player on the All-America Team.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 27MiddleburyW 14–0
October 4Holy Cross
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 9–0[4]
October 11Syracuse
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 3–7
October 18Maine
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 6–0
October 25Boston College
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 13–0
November 1Tufts
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 24–13
November 8Notre Dame
L 9–12
November 15Villanova
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 62–0
November 29vs. NavyL 0–6

Roster

References

  1. "Army Yearly Results (1915-1919)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. "1919 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  3. "Walter Camp's All-American Team". Fitchburg Daily Sentinel. December 13, 1919.
  4. "West Point Wins From Holy Cross: Cadets Held to 9 to 0 Score by Bay Staters". New York Herald. October 5, 1919. p. 23 via Newspapers.com.
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