1913 Army Cadets football team

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1913
Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1
Head coach
CaptainBenjamin Hoge
Home stadiumThe Plain
Seasons
1913 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     9 0 0
Carlisle     10 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     10 0 1
Army     8 1 0
Dartmouth     7 1 0
Tufts     7 1 0
Colgate     6 1 1
Franklin & Marshall     6 2 0
Pittsburgh     6 2 1
Princeton     5 2 1
Yale     5 2 3
Rutgers     6 3 0
Penn     6 3 1
Villanova     4 2 1
Lehigh     5 3 0
Bucknell     6 4 0
Cornell     5 4 1
Boston College     4 3 1
Syracuse     6 4 0
Fordham     3 3 2
Geneva     4 4 0
Lafayette     4 5 1
Brown     4 5 0
Duquesne     3 5 1
Carnegie Tech
    2 4 1
Holy Cross     3 6 0
Temple
    1 3 2
Penn State     2 6 0
Rhode Island State     2 6 0
Vermont     1 5 0
NYU     0 8 0

The 1913 Army Cadets football team represented the

Notre Dame by a 35 to 13 score. In the annual Army–Navy Game at the Polo Grounds in New York City, the Cadets won 22–9.[2]

End Louis A. Merrilat was a consensus first-team player on the All-America team.[3] Tackle Alex Weyand was selected as a second-team All-American by Walter Camp and was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.[4] Quarterback Vernon Prichard was selected as a second-team All-American by Harper's Weekly.[5]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 4StevensW 34–0
October 11Rutgers
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 29–0[6]
October 18Colgate
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 7–6
October 25Tufts
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 2–0
November 1Notre Dame
L 13–35
November 8
Albright
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 77–0
November 15Villanova
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 55–0
November 22
Springfield YMCA
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 14–7
November 29vs. NavyW 22–9

References

  1. ^ "Army Yearly Results (1910-1914)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. ^ "1913 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  3. ^ "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 26, 2018. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
  4. ^ "Camp Picks All-American Eleven: 2 Western Men on All-America Football Team". The Indianapolis Star. December 14, 1913.
  5. ^ "Butler of Wisconsin on All-American". Racine Journal-News. December 24, 1913.
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