1907 Army Cadets football team

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1907 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2–1
Head coach
CaptainRodney Smith
Home stadiumThe Plain
Seasons
← 1906
1908 →
1907 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     9 0 1
Dartmouth     8 0 1
Penn     11 1 0
Carlisle     10 1 0
Temple     4 0 2
Fordham     6 1 1
Cornell     8 2 0
Western U. of Penn.     8 2 0
Princeton     7 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     7 2 0
Lafayette     7 2 1
Lehigh     7 2 1
Swarthmore     6 2 0
Army     6 2 1
NYU     5 2 0
Vermont     4 1 2
Harvard     7 3 0
Brown     7 3 0
Penn State     6 4 0
Syracuse     5 3 1
Drexel     3 2 2
Colgate     4 4 1
Geneva     4 5 2
Amherst     3 4 1
Tufts     3 4 1
Frankin & Marshall     4 6 0
Rutgers     3 5 1
Springfield Training School     2 4 2
Bucknell     4 7 0
New Hampshire     1 5 2
Villanova     1 5 1
Holy Cross     1 7 2
Wesleyan     1 7 1
Carnegie Tech     1 8 0

The 1907 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1907 college football season. In their second season (first full season) under head coach Henry Smither, the Cadets compiled a 6–2–1 record, shut out six of their nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 125 to 24.[1] The team's only two losses were to Cornell and to Navy in the annual Army–Navy Game.[2]

Two Army players were honored by either Walter Camp (WC) or Caspar Whitney (CW) on the All-America team. They are guard William Erwin (WC-1, CW-1) and tackle Henry Weeks (WC-3, CW-2).[3][4][5]

Schedule[edit]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5Franklin & MarshallW 23–0
October 12Trinity (CT)
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 12–0
October 19Yale
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
T 0–010,000[6]
October 26Rochester
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 30–0
November 2Colgate
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 6–0[7]
November 9Cornell
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 10–14
November 16Tufts
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 21–0
November 23Syracuse
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 23–4
November 30vs. NavyL 0–6

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Army Yearly Results (1905-1909)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. ^ "1907 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  3. ^ "Camp Selects His All American Team". Trenton Evening Times. December 27, 1903.
  4. ^ "Whitney Picks Out the Champ Eleven: All-American Eleven Taken from the East". La Crosse Tribune. December 26, 1907.
  5. ^ "Casper Whitney Shuns the West: Eleven Eastern Players Picked for All-American Eleven". Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. December 26, 1907.
  6. ^ "Cadets Surprised Yale at Football". The New York Times. October 20, 1907. p. 29 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Army's Small Score: Colgate Makes Good Showing in End Runs". The New York Times. December 3, 1907 – via Newspapers.com.