1906 Army Cadets football team

American college football season February 2026 August 2022 1906 Army Cadets football Group photo of the 1906 US Army football team.png Independent 3–5–1 Henry Smither 1st first game Ernest Graves Sr. 1st season, final 8 games Ray Hill The Plain The 1906 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy as an independent during the 1906 college football season. The Cadets compiled a 3–5–1 record, shut out four opponents (including a scoreless tie with Colgate), and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 59 to 37. Henry Smither was the coach in the first game of the season, and Ernest Graves, Sr. was the coach in games two through nine. The team's setbacks included losses to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets lost to the Midshipmen 10–0.1906 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results Sports Reference LLC SR/College Football July 29, 2015 https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/army/1906-schedule.html Two Army players were honored by either Walter Camp (WC) or Caspar Whitney (CW) on the All-America team. They are tackle Henry Weeks (WC-3, CW-2) and guard William Christy (WC-3).Walter Camp Football Foundation http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards// dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090330065940/http://waltercamp.org/index.php/teams_and_awards 2009-03-30 Caspar Whitney The View-Point Outing 1907 537 https://books.google.com/books?id=Wa9hAAAAIAAJ Schedule September 29 w 1906 Tufts Jumbos Tufts The Plain West Point, NY 12–0 October 6 w 1906 Trinity Bantams Trinity (CT) The Plain West Point, NY 24–0 October 13 t Colgate The Plain West Point, NY 0–0 No Score at West Point The New York Times October 14, 1906 11 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120841125/no-score-at-west-point/ Newspapers.com October 20 w 1906 Williams Ephs Williams The Plain West Point, NY 17–0 October 27 l Harvard The Plain West Point, NY 0–5 November 3 l Yale The Plain West Point, NY 6–10 Yale field goal Wins Luckiest of Victories The New York Times November 4, 1906 11 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98194841/army-yale/ Newspapers.com November 10 l Princeton The Plain West Point, NY 0–8 Tigers Beat Cadets by Two Field Goals: Princeton Unable to Make Gains Against the Army Defense The New York Times November 11, 1906 10 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98332105/tigers-beat-cadets-by-two-field-goals/ Newspapers.com November 24 l Syracuse The Plain West Point, NY 0–4 December 1 l y Navy Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA Army–Navy Game 0–10 References Army Category:Army Black Knights football seasons Army Cadets football