1918 League Island Marines football team

1918 League Island Marines football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1
Head coach
Seasons
← 1917
1918 military service football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Camp Greenleaf     9 0 0
Chicago Naval Reserve     7 0 0
Mare Island Marines     10 1 0
Great Lakes Navy     7 0 2
League Island Marines     7 1 0
Cleveland Naval Reserve     5 1 0
Camp Hancock     4 1 2
Camp Upton     4 1 2
Camp Taylor     3 1 1
Camp Lewis     7 2 0
Camp Devens     4 2 0
Mather Field     2 1 0
Camp Dodge     2 1 1
Camp Grant     3 3 0
Camp Dix     1 2 2
Camp Gordon     2 4 0
Camp Perry     2 4 0
Georgia Eleventh Cavalry     0 1 0
Mineola Aviation Station     0 3 0

The 1918 League Island Marines football team represented the United States Marine Corps stationed at the League Island Navy Yard in Philadelphia during the 1918 college football season. The team was coached by Byron W. Dickson.[1] A game scheduled for October 19 against Villanova was cancelled due to Spanish flu quarantine.[2]

The 1919 edition of the Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide indicates that Dickson coached a Marine team that disbanded after beating Penn on October 26, and afterward, a League Island Navy Yard team was formed, which went 6–0 beginning with a victory over Lehigh on November 2.[3] Contemporary newspapers accounts do not appear to make a distinction between the two teams.

  1. ^ "Devil Dogs Face Stiff Football Schedule". The Evening News. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. October 18, 1918. p. 11. Retrieved September 11, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  2. ^ "Marines Finish All They Start". Evening Public Ledger. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 19, 1918. p. 12. Retrieved September 11, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  3. ^ Camp, Walter, ed. (1919). Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1919. New York, New York: American Sports Publishing Co. p. 227. Retrieved September 12, 2021 – via Internet Archive.