1895 Army Cadets football team

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1895 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–2
Head coach
CaptainEdward Leonard King
Home stadiumThe Plain
Seasons
← 1894
1896 →
1895 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn     14 0 0
Yale     13 0 2
Princeton     10 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     6 1 1
Harvard     8 2 1
Lafayette     6 2 0
Syracuse     6 2 2
Army     5 2 0
Bucknell     5 2 0
Colgate     4 2 0
Swarthmore     7 4 1
Tufts     8 5 0
Villanova     4 2 0
Wesleyan     6 3 0
Amherst     6 5 0
Brown     7 6 1
Carlisle     4 4 0
Drexel     3 3 1
Penn State     2 2 3
Cornell     3 4 1
Rutgers     3 4 0
New Hampshire     2 3 1
Frankin & Marshall     3 5 1
Boston College     2 4 2
Lehigh     3 6 0
CCNY     2 5 1
Buffalo     1 4 2
Temple     1 4 1
MIT     1 4 0
Trinity (CT)     1 4 0
Massachusetts     1 5 0
Western Univ. Penn.     1 6 0
Geneva     0 5 0

The 1895 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1895 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach Harmon S. Graves, the Cadets compiled a 5–2 record, shut out five of their seven opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 141 to 32.[1] The Army–Navy Game was not played in 1895.[2] On November 2, 1895, Army lost to Yale by a 28 to 8 score in what one press account called the greatest and most exciting game of football ever played on the West Point grounds."[3]

No Army Cadets were honored on the 1895 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule[edit]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5Trinity (CT)W 50–0
October 12Harvard
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 0–4
October 19Tufts
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 35–0
October 26Dartmouth
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 6–02,000[4]
November 2Yale
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 8–28
November 16Union (NY)
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 16–0
November 23Brown
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 26–0[5][6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Army Yearly Results (1895-1899)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  2. ^ "1895 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  3. ^ "Other Games". The Salt Lake Tribune. November 3, 1895.
  4. ^ "West Point Cadets Win". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 31, 1895. p. 9. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "Brown Day Off". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 24, 1895. p. 2. Retrieved March 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "West Point, 26; Brown, 0". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 24, 1895. p. 7. Retrieved March 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.