1917 Army Cadets football team

The 1917 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1917 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Geoffrey Keyes, the Cadets compiled a 7–1 record, shut out four of their eight opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 203 to 24.[1] All eight games were played at home and the Cadets' sole loss came to Notre Dame by a 7–2 score. The Army–Navy Game was not played this season or the next.[2]

1917 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1
Head coach
CaptainBiff Jones, Elmer Oliphant
Home stadiumThe Plain
Seasons
← 1916
1918 →
1917 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Pittsburgh  1000
Williams  701
Yale  300
Princeton  200
Syracuse  811
Army  710
Rutgers  711
Penn  920
Brown  820
Fordham  720
Lehigh  720
Boston College  620
Swarthmore  620
Washington & Jefferson  730
Colgate  420
Harvard  313
New Hampshire  322
Dartmouth  530
Geneva  531
Penn State  540
Buffalo  440
NYU  223
Tufts  330
Carnegie Tech  231
Bucknell  351
Lafayette  350
Holy Cross  340
Rhode Island State  242
Carlisle  360
Columbia  240
Delaware  250
Cornell  360
Franklin & Marshall  260
Villanova  032
Temple  061

Halfback Elmer Oliphant was a consensus first-team player on the All-America team and was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.[3][4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 6Carnegie TechW 28–0
October 13VMI
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 34–0[5]
October 20Tufts
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 26–3
October 27Villanova
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 21–7
November 3Notre Dame
L 2–7[6]
November 10Carlisle
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 28–0
November 17Lebanon Valley
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 50–0
November 24Boston College
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 14–7

References

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