1942 Army Cadets football team

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1942
Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3
Head coach
CaptainHenry Mazur
Home stadiumMichie Stadium
Seasons
1942 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Williams     7 1 0
No. 19 Penn State     6 1 1
No. 8 Boston College     8 2 0
Buffalo     6 2 0
Bucknell     6 2 1
Colgate     6 2 1
Army     6 3 0
Syracuse     6 3 0
Duquesne     6 3 1
Yale     5 3 0
Fordham     5 3 1
Penn     5 3 1
No. T–19 Holy Cross     5 4 1
Dartmouth     5 4 0
Brown     4 4 0
Villanova     4 4 0
Vermont     4 3 0
Carnegie Tech
    3 3 0
Boston University     4 5 0
Cornell     3 5 1
Princeton     3 5 1
Temple     2 5 3
Columbia     3 6 0
Pittsburgh     3 6 0
Tufts     2 5 1
Franklin & Marshall     1 4 2
Massachusetts State     2 5 0
Harvard     2 6 1
Drexel     2 6 0
Manhattan     2 6 0
CCNY     1 7 1
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1942 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1942 college football season. In their second year under head coach Earl Blaik, the Cadets compiled a 6–3 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 149 to 74.[1] In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets lost to the Midshipmen by a 14 to 0 score. The Cadets also lost to Penn and Notre Dame.[2]

Four Army players were honored on the

Sporting News
and NEA.

Army was ranked at No. 28 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendance
October 3LafayetteW 14–0
October 10Cornell
  • Michie Stadium
  • West Point, NY
W 28–8
October 17at ColumbiaNo. 18W 34–6
October 24at HarvardNo. 11W 14–0
October 31at PennNo. 8L 0–19
November 7vs. No. 4 Notre DameNo. 19L 0–1374,946
November 14VPI
  • Michie Stadium
  • West Point, NY
W 19–710,000
November 21vs. PrincetonW 40–7
November 28at NavyL 0–14
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Rankings

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking
— = Not ranked ( ) = First-place votes
Week
Poll1234567Final
AP
18118 (1)19

References

  1. ^ "Army Yearly Results (1940-1944)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  2. ^ "1942 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  3. Newspapers.com
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