1906 Army Cadets football team

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1906
Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–5–1
Head coach
CaptainRay Hill
Home stadiumThe Plain
Seasons
1906 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton     9 0 1
Yale     9 0 1
Haverford     7 0 2
Harvard     10 1 0
Cornell     8 1 2
Lafayette     8 1 1
Penn State     8 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     9 2 0
Swarthmore     7 2 0
Drexel     6 2 0
Tufts     6 2 0
Penn     7 2 3
Carlisle     9 3 0
Brown     6 3 0
Rutgers     5 2 2
Dartmouth     6 3 1
Syracuse     6 3 0
Colgate     4 2 2
Vermont     5 4 0
Fordham     5 3 0
Western U. of Penn.
    6 4 0
Holy Cross     4 3 1
Amherst
    3 3 1
Lehigh     5 5 1
Bucknell
    3 4 1
Dickinson     3 4 2
Carnegie Tech
    2 3 2
Army     3 5 1
Frankin & Marshall
    3 5 1
Wesleyan
    2 4 1
New Hampshire     2 5 1
Villanova     3 7 0
Springfield Training School     1 5 3
NYU     0 4 0

The 1906 Army Cadets football team represented the

Ernest Graves, Sr. was the coach in games two through nine. The team's setbacks included losses to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets lost to the Midshipmen 10–0.[2]

Two Army players were honored by either Walter Camp (WC) or Caspar Whitney (CW) on the All-America team. They are tackle Henry Weeks (WC-3, CW-2) and guard William Christy (WC-3).[3][4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 29TuftsW 12–0
October 6Trinity (CT)
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 24–0
October 13Colgate
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
T 0–0[5]
October 20Williams
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 17–0
October 27Harvard
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 0–5
November 3Yale
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 6–10[6]
November 10Princeton
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 0–8[7]
November 24Syracuse
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 0–4
December 1vs. NavyL 0–10

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. ^ "1906 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  3. ^ "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009.
  4. ^ Caspar Whitney (1907). "The View-Point". Outing. p. 537.
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