1906 Army Cadets football team

1906 Army Cadets football
Conference	Independent
Record	3–5–1
Head coach	Henry Smither (1st season; first game) Ernest Graves Sr. (1st season, final 8 games)
Captain	Ray Hill
Home stadium	The Plain

1906 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					9	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					9	–	0	–	1
Haverford			–					7	–	0	–	2
Harvard			–					10	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					8	–	1	–	2
Lafayette			–					8	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					8	–	1	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					9	–	2	–	0
Swarthmore			–					7	–	2	–	0
Drexel			–					6	–	2	–	0
Tufts			–					6	–	2	–	0
Penn			–					7	–	2	–	3
Carlisle			–					9	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					6	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					5	–	2	–	2
Dartmouth			–					6	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					6	–	3	–	0
Colgate			–					4	–	2	–	2
Vermont			–					5	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					5	–	3	–	0
Western U. of Penn.			–					6	–	4	–	0
Holy Cross			–					4	–	3	–	1
Amherst			–					3	–	3	–	1
Lehigh			–					5	–	5	–	1
Bucknell			–					3	–	4	–	1
Dickinson			–					3	–	4	–	2
Carnegie Tech			–					2	–	3	–	2
Army			–					3	–	5	–	1
Frankin & Marshall			–					3	–	5	–	1
Wesleyan			–					2	–	4	–	1
New Hampshire			–					2	–	5	–	1
Villanova			–					3	–	7	–	0
Springfield Training School			–					1	–	5	–	3
NYU			–					0	–	4	–	0

The 1906 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1906 college football season. The Cadets compiled a 3–5–1 record, shut out four opponents (including a scoreless tie with Colgate), and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 59 to 37.^[1] Henry Smither was the coach in the first game of the season, and Ernest Graves, Sr. was the coach in games two through nine. The team's setbacks included losses to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets lost to the Midshipmen 10–0.^[2]

Two Army players were honored by either Walter Camp (WC) or Caspar Whitney (CW) on the All-America team. They are tackle Henry Weeks (WC-3, CW-2) and guard William Christy (WC-3).^[3][4]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 29	Tufts	The Plain West Point, NY	W 12–0
October 6	Trinity (CT)	The Plain West Point, NY	W 24–0
October 13	Colgate	The Plain West Point, NY	T 0–0	[5]
October 20	Williams	The Plain West Point, NY	W 17–0
October 27	Harvard	The Plain West Point, NY	L 0–5
November 3	Yale	The Plain West Point, NY	L 6–10	[6]
November 10	Princeton	The Plain West Point, NY	L 0–8	[7]
November 24	Syracuse	The Plain West Point, NY	L 0–4
December 1	vs. Navy	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (Army–Navy Game)	L 0–10

References

1. "Army Yearly Results (1905-1909)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
2. "1906 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
3. "Walter Camp Football Foundation". Archived from the original on March 30, 2009.
4. Caspar Whitney (1907). "The View-Point". Outing. p. 537.
5. "No Score at West Point". The New York Times. October 14, 1906. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Yale field goal Wins Luckiest of Victories". The New York Times. November 4, 1906. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
7. "Tigers Beat Cadets by Two Field Goals: Princeton Unable to Make Gains Against the Army Defense". The New York Times. November 11, 1906. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.