1903 Army Cadets football team

American college football season February 2026 August 2023 1903 Army Cadets football 1903 Army Football Team - Horatio B. Hackett front and center.jpg 285 Independent 6–2–1 Edward Leonard King 1st Edward Farnsworth The Plain The 1903 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy as an independent during 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. 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.The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Sun, November 29, 1903; p. 12.1903 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results Sports Reference LLC SR/College Football July 29, 2015 https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/army/1903-schedule.html 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).Walter Camp Names All American Team The Trenton Times December 10, 1903The Sportsman's View Point Caspar Whitney Outing January 1904 477 http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/Outing/Volume_43/outXLIII04/outXLIII04q.pdf 2015-07-29 2017-08-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20170822100902/http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrary/Outing/Volume_43/outXLIII04/outXLIII04q.pdf Schedule September 26 t Colgate The Plain West Point, NY 0–0 October 3 w 1903 Tufts Jumbos Tufts The Plain West Point, NY 17–0 https://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19031003-01.2.13&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Columbia Daily Spectator, Volume XLVII, Number 10, 3 October 1903 October 5, 2024 October 7, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20241007092223/https://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19031003-01.2.13&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- dead https://goarmywestpoint.com/sports/football/schedule/1903 1903 Football Schedule - Army West Point October 10 w Dickinson The Plain West Point, NY 12–0 October 17 l Harvard The Plain West Point, NY 0–5 8,000–30,000 Webb Melville E. Jr. Harvard 5, West Point, 0 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98707317/the-boston-globe/ The Boston Sunday Globe Boston, Massachusetts October 18, 1903 1 March 30, 2022 Newspapers.com Webb Melville E. Jr. Harvard 5, West Point, 0 (continued) https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98707452/the-boston-globe/ The Boston Sunday Globe Boston, Massachusetts October 18, 1903 2 March 30, 2022 Newspapers.com Harvard, 5; West Point, 0 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98707129/the-new-york-times/ The New York Times New York, New York October 18, 1903 14 March 30, 2022 Newspapers.com October 24 l Yale The Plain West Point, NY 5–17 October 31 w Vermont The Plain West Point, NY 32–0 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79924205/west-point-20-vermont-0/ The New York Times West Point 20, Vermont 0 November 1, 1903 June 20, 2021 Newspapers.com November 7 w 1903 Manhattan College Manhattan The Plain West Point, NY 48–0 November 14 w Chicago The Plain West Point, NY 10–6 November 28 w y Navy Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA Army–Navy Game 40–5 References Army Category:Army Black Knights football seasons Army Cadets football