1908 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–1–2
Head coach
CaptainWallace Philoon
Home stadiumThe Plain
1908 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
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
Frankin & 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
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.[1] The team's only loss was to Yale. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets defeated the Midshipmen 6–4.[2]

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).[3] Philoon also received first-team honors from the Washington Herald, Chicago Inter Ocean, and Fred Crolius.[4] In addition, tackle Daniel Pullen was selected as a first-team All-American by the New York World,[5] Fielding H. Yost,[6] T. A. Dwight Jones,[4] and the Kansas City Journal.[4]

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[7]
October 31Princeton
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
T 0–0
November 7Springfield Training School
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 6–5[8]
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. ↑ "Army Yearly Results (1905-1909)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. ↑ "1908 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Camp's 1908 All-America Selections". Reading Eagle. November 26, 1930.
  4. 1 2 3 Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1909. p. 27.
  5. ↑ "Another All-American. Tad Jones of Yale Picks Best Football Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. December 5, 1908.
  6. ↑ "All-American Elevens Picked By Two Experts". Syracuse Herald. December 7, 1908. p. 12. Retrieved August 12, 2022 – via NewspaperArchive.
  7. ↑ "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.
  8. ↑ "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.


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