1908 Army Cadets football team

1908 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–1–2
Head coach
CaptainWallace Philoon
Home stadiumThe Plain
1908 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn – 11–0–1
Harvard – 9–0–1
Cornell – 7–1–1
Fordham – 5–1–0
Yale – 7–1–1
Dartmouth – 6–1–1
Carlisle – 10–2–1
Washington & Jefferson – 10–2–1
Army – 6–1–2
Pittsburgh – 8–3–0
Lafayette – 6–2–2
Princeton – 5–2–3
Syracuse – 6–3–1
Brown – 5–3–1
Temple – 3–2–1
Colgate – 4–3–0
Lehigh – 4–3–0
Dickinson – 5–4–0
Amherst – 3–3–2
Holy Cross – 4–4–0
Penn State – 5–5–0
Vermont – 3–3–3
Wesleyan – 3–4–2
Springfield Training School – 3–4–1
NYU – 2–3–2
Franklin & Marshall – 4–6–1
Bucknell – 3–5–2
Rutgers – 3–5–1
Boston College – 2–4–2
Carnegie Tech – 3–7–0
Geneva – 1–6–2
Tufts – 1–6–1
Villanova – 1–6–0
New Hampshire – 1–7–0
Drexel – 0–7–0

The 1908 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1908 college football season. In their first season under head coach Harry Nelly, the Cadets compiled a 6–1–2 record, shut out five of their nine opponents (including a scoreless tie with Princeton), and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 87 to 21. The team's only loss was to Yale. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets defeated the Midshipmen 6–4.[1]

Two Army players were honored by Walter Camp (WC) on his All-America team. They are center Wallace Philoon (second team) and end Johnson (third team).[2] Philoon also received first-team honors from the Washington Herald, Chicago Inter Ocean, and Fred Crolius.[3] In addition, tackle Daniel Pullen was selected as a first-team All-American by the New York World,[4] Fielding H. Yost,[5] T. A. Dwight Jones,[3] and the Kansas City Journal.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 3TuftsW 5–0
October 10Trinity (CT)
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 33–0
October 17Yale
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 0–6
October 24Colgate
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 6–0[6]
October 31Princeton
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
T 0–0
November 7Springfield Training School
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 6–5[7]
November 14Washington & Jefferson
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
T 6–6
November 21Villanova
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 25–0
November 28vs. NavyW 6–4

References

  1. ↑ "1908 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Camp's 1908 All-America Selections". Reading Eagle. November 26, 1930.
  3. 1 2 3 Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1909. p. 27.
  4. ↑ "Another All-American. Tad Jones of Yale Picks Best Football Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. December 5, 1908.
  5. ↑ "All-American Elevens Picked By Two Experts". Syracuse Herald. December 7, 1908. p. 12. Retrieved August 12, 2022 – via NewspaperArchive.
  6. ↑ "Colgate Plays Strongly: Army Able to Score Just Once Against the Colgate Eleven". The Sun (New York City). October 25, 1908. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Scare For Army Team". New-York Tribune. New York, New York. November 8, 1908. p. 8. Retrieved April 5, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.