1919 Army Cadets football team

The 1919 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1919 college football season. In their fifth non-consecutive season under head coach Charles Dudley Daly (Daly was Army's coach from 1913 to 1916), the Cadets compiled a 6–3 record, shut out five of their nine opponents, and outscored all opponents 140 to 38.[1]

1919 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
1919 record6–3
Head coach
Home stadiumThe Plain
1919 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Harvard   –    9 –0 –1
Penn State   –    7 –1 –0
Dartmouth   –    6 –1 –1
Colgate   –    5 –1 –1
New Hampshire   –    7 –2 –0
Lafayette   –    6 –2 –0
Wash. & Jeff.   –    6 –2 –0
Williams   –    6 –2 –0
Syracuse   –    8 –3 –0
Penn   –    6 –2 –1
Pittsburgh   –    6 –2 –1
Lehigh   –    6 –3 –0
Princeton   –    4 –2 –1
Geneva   –    4 –2 –2
Army   –    6 –3 –0
Boston College   –    5 –3 –0
Yale   –    5 –3 –0
Rutgers   –    5 –3 –0
Villanova   –    5 –3 –1
Brown   –    5 –4 –1
Bucknell   –    5 –4 –1
NYU   –    4 –4 –0
Carnegie Tech   –    3 –4 –0
Columbia   –    2 –4 –3
Cornell   –    3 –5 –0
Franklin & Marshall   –    2 –4 –2
Tufts   –    2 –5 –0
Rhode Island State   –    0 –8 –1
Drexel   –    0 –4 –0

In the annual Army–Navy Game at the Polo Grounds in New York City, the Cadets lost to the Midshipmen 6–0. Army defeated Villanova by a lopsided 62 to 0 score, but lost to Notre Dame 12–9.[2]

End Earl "Red" Blaik was selected by Walter Camp as a third-team player on the All-America team.[3]

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResult
September 27Middlebury
W 14–0
October 4Holy Cross
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 9–0
October 11Syracuse
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 3–7
October 18Maine
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 6–0
October 25Boston College
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 13–0
November 1Tufts
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 24–13
November 8Notre Dame
L 9–12
November 15Villanova
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 62–0
November 29vs. Navy
L 0–6

Roster
  • Earl Blaik

References
  1. "Army Yearly Results (1915-1919)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. "1919 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  3. "Walter Camp's All-American Team". Fitchburg Daily Sentinel. December 13, 1919.


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