1943 Army Cadets football team

The 1943 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1943 college football season. In their third year under head coach Earl Blaik, the Cadets compiled a 7–2–1 record, shut out five of their ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 299 to 66. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets lost to the Midshipmen by a 13 to 0 score. The Cadets also lost to Notre Dame by a 26 to 0 score, but won convincing victories over Colgate (42-0), Temple (51-0), Columbia (52-0), and Brown (59-0).

1943 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Ranking
APNo. 11
Record7–2–1
Head coach
CaptainCas Myslinski, Robin Olds
Home stadiumMichie Stadium
1943 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Boston College    4 0 1
Franklin & Marshall    7 1 0
Dartmouth    6 1 0
Rochester    6 1 0
No. 11 Army    7 2 1
Holy Cross    6 2 0
Tufts    6 2 0
No. 20 Penn    6 2 1
Brown    5 3 0
Villanova    5 3 0
Colgate    5 3 1
Penn State    5 3 1
Bucknell    6 4 0
Cornell    6 4 0
Harvard    2 2 1
Yale    4 5 0
Pittsburgh    3 5 0
Temple    2 6 0
CCNY    1 3 1
Princeton    1 6 0
Carnegie Tech    0 4 1
Columbia    0 8 0
Rankings from AP Poll

Two Army players were honored on the 1943 College Football All-America Team. Center Cas Myslinski was a consensus first-team honoree, and tackle Francis E. Merritt was selected as a first-team player by Football News and a second-team player by the Associated Press.

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