1906 Army Cadets football team

The 1906 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1906 college football season. The Cadets compiled a 3–5–1 record, shut out four opponents (including a scoreless tie with Colgate), and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 59 to 37.[1] Henry Smither was the coach in the first game of the season, and Ernest Graves, Sr., was the coach in games two through nine. The team's setbacks included losses to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets lost to the Midshipmen 10–0.[2]

1906 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
1906 record3–5–1
Head coach
Home stadiumThe Plain
1906 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Princeton      9 0 1
Yale      9 0 1
Harvard      10 1 0
Cornell      8 1 2
Lafayette      8 1 1
Penn State      8 1 1
Washington & Jefferson      9 2 0
Swarthmore      7 2 0
Tufts      6 2 0
Penn      7 2 3
Carlisle      9 3 0
Brown      6 3 0
Rutgers      5 2 2
Dartmouth      6 3 1
Syracuse      6 3 0
Colgate      4 2 2
Fordham      5 3 0
Western U. of Penn.      6 4 0
Drexel      3 2 1
Holy Cross      4 3 1
Amherst      3 3 1
Lehigh      5 5 1
Bucknell      3 4 1
Carnegie Tech      2 3 2
Army      3 5 1
Frankin & Marshall      3 5 1
Wesleyan      2 4 1
New Hampshire      2 5 1
Villanova      3 7 0
NYU      0 4 0

Two Army players were honored by either Walter Camp (WC) or Caspar Whitney (CW) on the All-America team. They are tackle Henry Weeks (WC-3, CW-2) and guard William Christy (WC-3).[3][4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 29TuftsW 12–0
October 6Trinity
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 24–0
October 13Colgate
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
T 0–0
October 20Williams
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 17–0
October 27Harvard
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 0–5
November 3Yale
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 6–10
November 10Princeton
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 0–8
November 24Syracuse
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 0–4
December 1vs. NavyL 0–10

References

  1. "Army Yearly Results (1905-1909)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. "1906 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  3. "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on 2009-03-30.
  4. Caspar Whitney (1907). "The View-Point". Outing. p. 537.


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