1903 Army Cadets football team

The 1903 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1903 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Edward Leonard King, the Cadets compiled a 6–2–1 record, shut out five of their nine opponents (including a scoreless tie with Colgate), and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 164 to 33.

1903 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2–1
Head coach
CaptainEdward Farnsworth
Home stadiumThe Plain
1903 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton    11 0 0
Yale    11 1 0
Columbia    9 1 0
Dartmouth    9 1 0
Geneva    9 1 0
Holy Cross    8 2 0
Temple    4 1 0
Washington & Jefferson    8 2 0
Lehigh    9 2 1
Harvard    9 3 0
Penn    9 3 0
Army    6 2 1
Carlisle    6 2 1
Amherst    7 3 0
Lafayette    7 3 0
Cornell    6 3 1
Colgate    4 2 1
Penn State    5 3 0
Swarthmore    6 4 0
Brown    5 4 1
Syracuse    5 4 0
Fordham    1 1 0
Frankin & Marshall    5 5 1
Buffalo    4 4 0
Rutgers    4 4 1
Delaware    4 4 0
Villanova    2 2 0
Bucknell    4 5 0
Vermont    4 5 0
Tufts    5 8 0
Wesleyan    3 6 1
Springfield Training School    1 3 1
NYU    2 5 0
New Hampshire    2 6 1
Pittsburgh College    1 5 1
Western U. Penn.    1 8 1

The team's two losses were to Harvard (5–0) and Yale (17–5). In an intersectional game, the Cadets defeated Chicago 10–6. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets, behind quarterback Horatio B. Hackett, defeated the Midshipmen 40–5.

Three members of the squad were honored by one or both of Walter Camp (WC) and Caspar Whitney (CW) on the All-America team. They are: guard Napoleon Riley (WC-2); halfback Edward Farnsworth (CW-2); and fullback Frederick Prince (CW-2).

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.