1908 Army Cadets football team

The 1908 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1908 college football season. In their first season under head coach Harry Nelly, the Cadets compiled a 6–1–2 record, shut out five of their nine opponents (including a scoreless tie with Princeton), and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 87 to 21.[1] The team's only loss was to Yale. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets defeated the Midshipmen 6–4.[2]

1908 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–1–2
Head coach
CaptainWallace Philoon
Home stadiumThe Plain
1908 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn   –  11 –0 –1
Harvard   –  9 –0 –1
Cornell   –  7 –1 –1
Fordham   –  5 –1 –0
Yale   –  7 –1 –1
Dartmouth   –  6 –1 –1
Carlisle   –  10 –2 –1
Washington & Jefferson   –  10 –2 –1
Army   –  6 –1 –2
Pittsburgh   –  8 –3 –0
Lafayette   –  6 –2 –2
Princeton   –  5 –2 –3
Syracuse   –  6 –3 –1
Brown   –  5 –3 –1
Temple   –  3 –2 –1
Colgate   –  4 –3 –0
Lehigh   –  4 –3 –0
Dickinson   –  5 –4 –0
Amherst   –  3 –3 –2
Holy Cross   –  4 –4 –0
Penn State   –  5 –5 –0
Vermont   –  3 –3 –3
Wesleyan   –  3 –4 –2
Springfield Training School   –  3 –4 –1
NYU   –  2 –3 –2
Frankin & Marshall   –  4 –6 –1
Bucknell   –  3 –5 –2
Rutgers   –  3 –5 –1
Boston College   –  2 –4 –2
Carnegie Tech   –  3 –7 –0
Geneva   –  1 –6 –2
Tufts   –  1 –6 –1
Villanova   –  1 –6 –0
Drexel   –  0 –7 –0

Two Army players were honored by Walter Camp (WC) on his All-America team. They are center Wallace Philoon (second team) and end Johnson (third team).[3] Philoon also received first-team honors from the Washington Herald, Chicago Inter Ocean, and Fred Crolius.[4] In addition, tackle Daniel Pullen was selected as a first-team All-American by the New York World,[5] Fielding H. Yost,[6] T. A. Dwight Jones,[4] and the Kansas City Journal.[4]

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 3Tufts
W 5–0
October 10Trinity (CT)
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 33–0
October 17Yale
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 0–6
October 24Colgate
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 6–0[7]
October 31Princeton
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
T 0–0
November 7Springfield Training School
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 6–5[8]
November 14Washington & Jefferson
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
T 6–6
November 21Villanova
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 25–0
November 28vs. Navy
W 6–4

References
  1. "Army Yearly Results (1905-1909)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. "1908 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  3. "Camp's 1908 All-America Selections". Reading Eagle. November 26, 1930.
  4. Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1909. p. 27.
  5. "Another All-American. Tad Jones of Yale Picks Best Football Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. December 5, 1908.
  6. "All-American Elevens Picked By Two Experts". Syracuse Herald. December 7, 1908. p. 12. Retrieved August 12, 2022 – via NewspaperArchive.
  7. "Colgate Plays Strongly: Army Able to Score Just Once Against the Colgate Eleven". The Sun (New York City). October 25, 1908. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Scare For Army Team". New-York Tribune. New York, New York. November 8, 1908. p. 8. Retrieved April 5, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.