1903 Army Cadets football team

1903 Army Cadets football
Conference	Independent
Record	6–2–1
Head coach	Edward Leonard King (1st season)
Captain	Edward Farnsworth
Home stadium	The Plain

1903 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					11	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					11	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–					9	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					9	–	1	–	0
Geneva			–					9	–	1	–	0
Holy Cross			–					8	–	2	–	0
Temple			–					4	–	1	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					8	–	2	–	0
Lehigh			–					9	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					9	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					9	–	3	–	0
Army			–					6	–	2	–	1
Carlisle			–					6	–	2	–	1
Amherst			–					7	–	3	–	0
Lafayette			–					7	–	3	–	0
Cornell			–					6	–	3	–	1
Colgate			–					4	–	2	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	3	–	0
Swarthmore			–					6	–	4	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	4	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					1	–	1	–	0
Frankin & Marshall			–					5	–	5	–	1
Buffalo			–					4	–	4	–	0
Rutgers			–					4	–	4	–	1
Delaware			–					4	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					2	–	2	–	0
Bucknell			–					4	–	5	–	0
Vermont			–					4	–	5	–	0
Tufts			–					5	–	8	–	0
Wesleyan			–					3	–	6	–	1
Springfield Training School			–					1	–	3	–	1
NYU			–					2	–	5	–	0
New Hampshire			–					2	–	6	–	1
Pittsburgh College			–					1	–	5	–	1
Western U. Penn.			–					1	–	8	–	1

The 1903 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1903 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Edward Leonard King, the Cadets compiled a 6–2–1 record, shut out five of their nine opponents (including a scoreless tie with Colgate), and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 164 to 33.^[1]

The team's two losses were to Harvard (5–0) and Yale (17–5). In an intersectional game, the Cadets defeated Chicago 10–6. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets, behind quarterback Horatio B. Hackett, defeated the Midshipmen 40–5.^[2][3]

Three members of the squad were honored by one or both of Walter Camp (WC) and Caspar Whitney (CW) on the All-America team. They are: guard Napoleon Riley (WC-2); halfback Edward Farnsworth (CW-2); and fullback Frederick Prince (CW-2).^[4][5]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 26	Colgate	The Plain West Point, NY	T 0–0
October 3	Tufts	The Plain West Point, NY	W 17–0		[6][7]
October 10	Dickinson	The Plain West Point, NY	W 12–0
October 17	Harvard	The Plain West Point, NY	L 0–5	8,000–30,000	[8][9][10]
October 24	Yale	The Plain West Point, NY	L 5–17
October 31	Vermont	The Plain West Point, NY	W 32–0		[11]
November 7	Manhattan	The Plain West Point, NY	W 48–0
November 14	Chicago	The Plain West Point, NY	W 10–6
November 28	vs. Navy	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (Army–Navy Game)	W 40–5

References

1. "Army Yearly Results (1900-1904)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
2. The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Sun, November 29, 1903; p. 12.
3. "1903 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
4. "Walter Camp Names All American Team". The Trenton Times. December 10, 1903.
5. Caspar Whitney (January 1904). "The Sportsman's View Point" (PDF). Outing. p. 477. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 22, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
6. "Columbia Daily Spectator, Volume XLVII, Number 10, 3 October 1903".
7. "1903 Football Schedule - Army West Point".
8. Webb, Melville E. Jr. (October 18, 1903). "Harvard 5, West Point, 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 1. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
9. Webb, Melville E. Jr. (October 18, 1903). "Harvard 5, West Point, 0 (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. 2. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
10. "Harvard, 5; West Point, 0". The New York Times. New York, New York. October 18, 1903. p. 14. Retrieved March 30, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
11. "West Point 20, Vermont 0". The New York Times. November 1, 1903. Retrieved June 20, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.