1911 Army Cadets football team

The 1911 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1911 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Joseph Beacham, the Cadets compiled a 6–1–1 record, shut out five of their eight opponents (including a scoreless tie with Georgetown), and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 88 to 11 – an average of 11.0 points scored and 1.4 points allowed.[1] The Cadets' only loss came against the Navy Midshipmen by a 3 to 0 score in the annual Army–Navy Game.[2]

1911 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
1911 record6–1–1
Head coach
Home stadiumThe Plain
1911 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Penn State      8 0 1
Carlisle      11 1 0
Princeton      8 0 2
Trinity (CT)      6 0 2
Temple      6 1 0
Army      6 1 1
Dartmouth      8 2 0
Lafayette      8 2 0
Yale      7 2 1
Harvard      6 2 1
Cornell      7 3 0
Rhode Island State      5 2 1
Brown      7 3 1
Bucknell      6 3 1
Penn      7 4 0
Pittsburgh      4 3 1
Washington & Jefferson      6 4 0
Syracuse      5 3 2
Lehigh      5 5 1
Rutgers      4 4 1
St. Bonaventure      2 2 0
Carnegie Tech      4 5 0
Tufts      3 4 0
NYU      1 3 3
Colgate      3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall      3 6 0
Villanova      0 5 1
Geneva      0 6 1
Boston College      0 7 0

Tackle Leland Devore was a consensus first-team player on the All-America team.[3] Other notable players on the 1911 Army team include center Franklin C. Sibert, guard Archibald Arnold, and tackle Robert Littlejohn.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
October 7VermontW 12–0
October 14Rutgers
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 18–0
October 21Yale
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 6–0
October 28Lehigh
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 20–0
November 4Georgetown
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
T 0–0
November 11Bucknell
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 20–2
November 18Colgate
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 12–6
November 25vs. NavyL 0–3

References

  1. "Army Yearly Results (1910-1914)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. "1911 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  3. "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 4. Retrieved August 16, 2014.


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