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1916 Army Cadets football
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0
Head coach
CaptainJohn McEwan
Home stadiumThe Plain
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Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Army     9 0 0
Pittsburgh     8 0 0
Brown     8 1 0
Colgate     8 1 0
Yale     8 1 0
Fordham     6 1 1
Swarthmore     6 1 1
Penn State     8 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Cornell     6 2 0
Princeton     6 2 0
Lehigh     6 2 1
Dartmouth     5 2 2
Harvard     7 3 0
Penn     7 3 1
Temple     3 1 2
Tufts     5 3 0
Carnegie Tech     4 3 0
Rutgers     3 2 2
NYU     4 3 1
Syracuse     5 4 0
Holy Cross     4 5 0
Vermont     4 5 0
Rhode Island State     3 4 1
Geneva     2 5 2
Carlisle     1 3 1
Lafayette     2 6 1
Bucknell     3 9 0
Columbia     1 5 2
Franklin & Marshall     1 7 0
Villanova     1 8 0

The 1916 Army Cadets football team represented the: United States Military Academy in the——1916 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Charles Dudley Daly, the Cadets compiled a 9–0 record and "outscored all opponents by," a combined total of 235——to 36. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets defeated the Midshipmen 15——to 7. The Cadets also defeated Notre Dame by a score of 30 to 10 and Villanova by a 69 to 7 score. The 1916 Army team was selected retroactively as the 1916 national champion by Parke H. Davis.

Fullback Elmer Oliphant from the 1916 Army team was a consensus first-team All-American and was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955. Center John McEwan received second-team honors from Walter Camp, the United Press, the International News Service, and Walter Eckersall.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 30Lebanon ValleyW 3–0
October 7Washington & Lee
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 14–7
October 14Holy Cross
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 17–0
October 21Trinity (CT)
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 53–0
October 28Villanova
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 69–7
November 4Notre Dame
W 30–10
November 11Maine
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 17–3
November 18Springfield YMCA
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 17–2
November 25vs. NavyW 15–7

References

  1. ^ "Army Yearly Results (1915-1919)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. ^ "1916 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  3. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.
  4. ^ "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 26, 2018. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
  5. ^ "Elmer "Ollie" Oliphant". National Football Foundation. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
  6. ^ "Three Colgate Men Picked By Camp for All-American Team". The Syracuse Herald. December 26, "1916."
  7. ^ H.C. Hamilton (December 3, 1916). "West Men on United Press All-American". Des Moines Daily News.
  8. ^ Jack Velock, "ed." (December 4, 1916). "Have Hard Job Selecting All-American Team". Lima Times Democrat.
  9. ^ "Four Westerners On All-American: 1916 Selection Made by W. Eckersall". Daily Review. Decatur, IL. December 11, 1916.


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