1916 Army Cadets football team

American college football season February 2026 August 2023 1916 Army Cadets football Independent 9–0 Charles Dudley Daly 4th John McEwan The Plain Co-national champion (Davis) The 1916 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy as an independent during the 1916 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Charles Dudley Daly, the Cadets compiled a 9–0 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 235 to 36. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets defeated the Midshipmen 15 to 7. The Cadets also defeated Notre Dame by a score of 30 to 10 and Villanova by a 69 to 7 score.1916 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results Sports Reference LLC SR/College Football July 29, 2015 https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/army/1916-schedule.html The 1916 Army team was selected retroactively as the 1916 national champion by Parke H. Davis.http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2015/FBS.pdf National Poll Rankings National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) 2015 NCAA Division I Football Records NCAA 108 January 8, 2016 PDF Fullback Elmer Oliphant from the 1916 Army team was a consensus first-team All-American and was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955.2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) 2014 August 16, 2014 4 http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2014/Awards.pdf November 26, 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181126094941/http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2014/awards.pdf deadElmer "Ollie" Oliphant National Football Foundation July 30, 2015 1307 Center John McEwan received second-team honors from Walter Camp,Three Colgate Men Picked By Camp for All-American Team The Syracuse Herald December 26, 1916 the United Press,H.C. Hamilton West Men on United Press All-American Des Moines Daily News December 3, 1916 the International News Service,Jack Velock Have Hard Job Selecting All-American Team Lima Times Democrat December 4, 1916 and Walter Eckersall.Four Westerners On All-American: 1916 Selection Made by W. Eckersall Daily Review Decatur, IL December 11, 1916 Schedule September 30 w 1916 Lebanon Valley Flying Dutchmen Lebanon Valley The Plain West Point, NY 3–0 October 7 w Washington & Lee The Plain West Point, NY 14–7 October 14 w Holy Cross The Plain West Point, NY 17–0 October 21 w 1916 Trinity Bantams Trinity (CT) The Plain West Point, NY 53–0 October 28 w Villanova The Plain West Point, NY 69–7 November 4 w Notre Dame The Plain West Point, NY rivalry 30–10 November 11 w Maine The Plain West Point, NY 17–3 November 18 w 1916 Springfield YMCA Springfield YMCA The Plain West Point, NY 17–2 November 25 w y Navy Polo Grounds New York, NY Army–Navy Game 15–7 References Army Category:Army Black Knights football seasons Category:College football undefeated seasons Category:College football national champions Army Cadets football