1903 Army Cadets football team

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1903 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2–1
Head coach
CaptainEdward Farnsworth
Home stadiumThe Plain
Seasons
← 1902
1904 →
1903 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   11 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   11 – 1 – 0
Columbia   –   9 – 1 – 0
Dartmouth   –   9 – 1 – 0
Geneva   –   9 – 1 – 0
Holy Cross   –   8 – 2 – 0
Temple   –   4 – 1 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   8 – 2 – 0
Lehigh   –   9 – 2 – 1
Harvard   –   9 – 3 – 0
Penn   –   9 – 3 – 0
Army   –   6 – 2 – 1
Carlisle   –   6 – 2 – 1
Amherst   –   7 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   7 – 3 – 0
Cornell   –   6 – 3 – 1
Colgate   –   4 – 2 – 1
Penn State   –   5 – 3 – 0
Swarthmore   –   6 – 4 – 0
Brown   –   5 – 4 – 1
Syracuse   –   5 – 4 – 0
Fordham   –   1 – 1 – 0
Frankin & Marshall   –   5 – 5 – 1
Buffalo   –   4 – 4 – 0
Rutgers   –   4 – 4 – 1
Delaware   –   4 – 4 – 0
Villanova   –   2 – 2 – 0
Bucknell   –   4 – 5 – 0
Vermont   –   4 – 5 – 0
Tufts   –   5 – 8 – 0
Wesleyan   –   3 – 6 – 1
Springfield Training School   –   1 – 3 – 1
NYU   –   2 – 5 – 0
New Hampshire   –   2 – 6 – 1
Pittsburgh College   –   1 – 5 – 1
Western U. Penn.   –   1 – 8 – 1

The 1903 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1903 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Edward Leonard King, the Cadets compiled a 6–2–1 record, shut out five of their nine opponents (including a scoreless tie with Colgate), and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 164 to 33.[1]

The team's two losses were to Harvard (5–0) and Yale (17–5). In an intersectional game, the Cadets defeated Chicago 10–6. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets, behind quarterback Horatio B. Hackett, defeated the Midshipmen 40–5.[2][3]

Three members of the squad were honored by one or both of Walter Camp (WC) and Caspar Whitney (CW) on the All-America team. They are: guard Napoleon Riley (WC-2); halfback Edward Farnsworth (CW-2); and fullback Frederick Prince (CW-2).[4][5]

Schedule[edit]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26Colgate
T 0–0
October 3Tufts
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 17–0
October 10Dickinson
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 12–0
October 17Harvard
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 0–58,000–30,000[6][7][8]
October 24Yale
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 5–17
October 31Vermont
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 32–0[9]
November 7Manhattan
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 48–0
November 14Chicago
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 10–6
November 28vs. Navy
W 40–5

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Army Yearly Results (1900-1904)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. ^ The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Sun, November 29, 1903; p. 12.
  3. ^ "1903 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  4. ^ "Walter Camp Names All American Team". The Trenton Times. December 10, 1903.
  5. ^ Caspar Whitney (January 1904). "The Sportsman's View Point" (PDF). Outing. p. 477. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 22, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  6. ^ Webb, Melville E. Jr. (October 18, 1903). "Harvard 5, West Point, 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ Webb, Melville E. Jr. (October 18, 1903). "Harvard 5, West Point, 0 (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 2. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  8. ^ "Harvard, 5; West Point, 0". The New York Times. New York, New York. October 18, 1903. p. 14. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  9. ^ "West Point 20, Vermont 0". The New York Times. November 1, 1903. Retrieved June 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.


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