1904 Army Cadets football team

The 1904 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1904 college football season. In their first season under head coach Robert Boyers, the Cadets compiled a 7–2 record, shut out five of their nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 136 to 27.^[1] The team's two losses were to Harvard and Princeton. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets defeated the Midshipmen 11–0.^[2]

1904 Army Cadets football
Conference	Independent
Record	7–2
Head coach	Robert Boyers (1st season)
Captain	Thomas Doe, Ernest Graves Sr.
Home stadium	The Plain
Seasons ← 1903 1905 →

1904 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Penn			–					12	–	0	–	0
Western U. of Penn.			–					10	–	0	–	0
Dartmouth			–					7	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					10	–	1	–	0
Amherst			–					9	–	1	–	0
Colgate			–					8	–	1	–	1
Carlisle			–					10	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					8	–	2	–	0
Princeton			–					8	–	2	–	0
Army			–					7	–	2	–	0
Fordham			–					4	–	1	–	1
Harvard			–					7	–	2	–	1
Dickinson			–					8	–	3	–	1
Columbia			–					7	–	3	–	0
Cornell			–					7	–	3	–	0
Villanova			–					4	–	2	–	1
Syracuse			–					6	–	3	–	0
Swarthmore			–					6	–	3	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					5	–	3	–	1
Penn State			–					6	–	4	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	0
Brown			–					6	–	5	–	0
Bucknell			–					3	–	3	–	0
Springfield Training School			–					4	–	4	–	1
NYU			–					3	–	6	–	0
Holy Cross			–					2	–	5	–	2
Wesleyan			–					3	–	7	–	0
Geneva			–					1	–	4	–	2
Vermont			–					1	–	5	–	2
New Hampshire			–					2	–	5	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	6	–	2
Tufts			–					2	–	9	–	1
Lehigh			–					1	–	8	–	0
Frankin & Marshall			–					0	–	10	–	0

Five 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: center Arthur Tipton (WC-1, CW-1); back Henry Torney (CW-1); end Alexander Garfield Gillespie (WC-2); halfback Frederick Prince (CW-2); and tackle Thomas Doe (WC-3).^[3][4][5]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
October 1	Tufts	The Plain West Point, NY	W 12–0
October 8	Dickinson	The Plain West Point, NY	W 18–0	[6]
October 17	Harvard	The Plain West Point, NY	L 0–4
October 22	Yale	The Plain West Point, NY	W 11–6
October 29	Williams	The Plain West Point, NY	W 16–0
November 5	Princeton	The Plain West Point, NY	L 6–12
November 12	NYU	The Plain West Point, NY	W 41–0
November 19	Syracuse	The Plain West Point, NY	W 21–5
November 26	vs. Navy	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (Army–Navy Game)	W 11–0

References

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. "1904 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
3. "Camp's Idea Of Football Stars: Yale Coach Puts Two Western Men in His Selection". The Daily Review (Decatur, IL). December 28, 1904.
4. "Camp's 1904 All America Football Team". Capital Times. November 24, 1904.
5. Caspar Whitney (January 1905). "The Sportsman's View-Point" (PDF). Outing. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 23, 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
6. "Dickinson Loses: Beaten Out by the West Point Eleven, 18 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 9, 1904. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.