1914 Army Cadets football team

American college football season From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1914 Army Cadets football team

The 1914 Army Cadets football team was an American football team that represented the United States Military Academy as an independent during the 1914 college football season. In their second season under head coach Charles Dudley Daly, the Cadets compiled a 9–0 record, shut out six of their nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 219 to 20 – an average of 24.3 points scored and 2.2 points allowed.[1][2] In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets defeated the Midshipmen, 20 to 0.[3] The Cadets also defeated Notre Dame 20–7.[4]

Quick Facts Army Cadets football, Conference ...
1914 Army Cadets football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0
Head coach
CaptainVernon Prichard
Home stadiumThe Plain
Seasons
 1913
1915 
Close
More information Conf, Overall ...
1914 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Army    9 0 0
Harvard    7 0 2
Washington & Jefferson    10 1 0
Dartmouth    8 1 0
Lehigh    8 1 0
Pittsburgh    8 1 0
Cornell    8 2 0
Yale    7 2 0
Franklin & Marshall    6 2 1
Colgate    5 2 1
Princeton    5 2 1
Brown    5 2 2
Fordham    6 3 1
Geneva    5 3 0
Tufts    5 3 0
Penn State    5 3 1
Rutgers    5 3 1
Lafayette    5 3 2
Syracuse    5 3 2
Boston College    5 4 0
NYU    5 4 0
Villanova    4 3 1
Bucknell    4 4 1
Carnegie Tech    4 4 0
Penn    4 4 1
Temple    3 3 0
Rhode Island State    2 3 3
Carlisle    5 10 1
Holy Cross    2 5 1
Vermont    2 6 1
New Hampshire    1 6 2
Duquesne    1 5 0
Close

The team was recognized as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, the Houlgate System, and the National Championship Foundation, and a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[5]

Three Army players were recognized as first-team players on the All-America team: end Louis A. Merrilat; center John McEwan; and quarterback Vernon Prichard. Tackle Alex Weyand was selected as a third-team All-American by Walter Camp. Four players from the 1914 team were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: McEwan; Weyand; Robert Neyland (later coach at Tennessee); and Elmer Oliphant.

Schedule

More information Date, Opponent ...
DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 3StevensW 49–0[6]
October 10RutgersW 13–0[7]
October 17ColgateW 21–7[8]
October 24Holy CrossW 14–0[9]
October 31VillanovaW 41–0[10]
November 7Notre DameW 20–7[4]
November 14MaineW 28–0[11]
November 21Springfield YMCAW 13–6[12]
November 28NavyW 20–0[3]
Close

Players

  • Charles Benedict, fullback
  • Omar Bradley (later Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army)
  • William Butler, left tackle
  • William Coffin, fullback
  • John F. Goodman, center
  • Charles Herrick, left guard
  • Paul A. Hodgson, left halfback
  • William M. Hoge, right halfback and fullback
  • James P. Kelly, right end
  • John McEwan, center (College Football Hall of Fame)
  • Laurence Meacham, left guard and right guard
  • Louis A. Merrilat, left end and right end
  • Robert Neyland, left end (College Football Hall of Fame)
  • Joseph O'Hare, right guard
  • Elmer Oliphant,[13] halfback (College Football Hall of Fame)
  • Vernon Prichard, quarterback
  • James Van Fleet, right halfback
  • Alex Weyand, right tackle (College Football Hall of Fame)

References

Wikiwand in your browser!

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.

Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.