1914 Army Cadets football team

1914 Army Cadets football
National champion (Helms, Houlgate, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0
Head coach
CaptainVernon Prichard
Home stadiumThe Plain
Seasons
← 1913
1915 →
1914 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Army     9 0 0
Harvard     7 0 2
Washington & Jefferson     10 1 0
Dartmouth     8 1 0
Lehigh     8 1 0
Pittsburgh     8 1 0
Cornell     8 2 0
Yale     7 2 0
Franklin & Marshall     6 2 1
Colgate     5 2 1
Princeton     5 2 1
Brown     5 2 2
Fordham     6 3 1
Geneva     5 3 0
Tufts     5 3 0
Penn State     5 3 1
Rutgers     5 3 1
Lafayette     5 3 2
Syracuse     5 3 2
Boston College     5 4 0
NYU     5 4 0
Villanova     4 3 1
Bucknell     4 4 1
Carnegie Tech     4 4 0
Penn     4 4 1
Temple     3 3 0
Rhode Island State     2 3 3
Carlisle     5 10 1
Holy Cross     2 5 1
Vermont     2 6 1
Duquesne     1 5 0

The 1914 Army Cadets football team was an American football team that represented the United States Military Academy as an independent during the 1914 college football season. In their second season under head coach Charles Dudley Daly, the Cadets compiled a 9–0 record, shut out six of their nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 219 to 20 – an average of 24.3 points scored and 2.2 points allowed.[1][2] In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets defeated the Midshipmen, 20 to 0.[3] The Cadets also defeated Notre Dame 20–7.[4]

The team was recognized as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, the Houlgate System, and the National Championship Foundation, and a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[5]

Three Army players were recognized as first-team players on the All-America team: end Louis A. Merrilat; center John McEwan; and quarterback Vernon Prichard. Tackle Alex Weyand was selected as a third-team All-American by Walter Camp. Four players from the 1914 team were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: McEwan; Weyand; Robert Neyland (later coach at Tennessee); and Elmer Oliphant.

  1. ^ "Army Yearly Results (1910-1914)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. ^ "1914 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  3. ^ "Well-Balanced Army Machine Overwhelms Navy, 20-0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 29, 1914.
  4. ^ "Cadets Avenge Defeat by Irish: Strong Army Team Downs Notre Dame, 20 to 7, in Contest at West Point Featured by Forward Pass". The Indianapolis Star. November 8, 1914.
  5. ^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.