1896 Army Cadets football team

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1896
Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–2–1
Head coach
CaptainWilliam Connor
Home stadiumThe Plain
Seasons
1896 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Fordham
    1 0 0
Lafayette     11 0 1
Princeton     10 0 1
Washington & Jefferson     8 0 1
Penn     14 1 0
Yale     13 1 0
Pittsburgh College     11 2 0
Buffalo     9 1 2
Villanova     10 4 0
Bucknell
    5 2 1
Harvard     7 4 0
Boston College     5 3 0
Storrs     5 3 0
Cornell     5 3 1
Syracuse     5 3 2
Temple
    3 2 0
Army     3 2 1
Rutgers     6 6 0
Carlisle     5 5 0
Holy Cross     2 2 2
Brown     4 5 1
Wesleyan
    4 5 1
Frankin & Marshall
    3 4 2
Geneva     3 4 0
Penn State     3 4 0
Colgate     3 4 1
Amherst
    3 6 1
Western Univ. Penn.     3 6 0
Lehigh     2 5 0
Tufts     2 6 1
Swarthmore     2 6 0
New Hampshire     1 4 0
Drexel     1 5 0
Massachusetts     0 4 0
Rhode Island     0 4 0

The 1896 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1896 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach George P. Dyer, the Cadets compiled a 3–2–1 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 93 to 45.[1] The Army–Navy Game was not played in 1896.[2]

No Army Cadets were honored on the 1896 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 3TuftsW 27–0
October 173:20 p.m.Princeton
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 0–115,000[3]
October 24
Union (NY)
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 44–0
October 31Yale
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 2–16
November 7
Wesleyan
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
T 12–12
November 21Brown
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 8–6500[4][5]

References

  1. ^ "Army Yearly Results (1895-1899)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. ^ "1896 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
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