1917 Camp Upton football team

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1917 Camp Upton football
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1917 record0–1
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Seasons
1918  
1917 military service football records
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TeamW L TW L T
Mare Island Marines   8 0 0
Mineola Aviation Station   3 0 0
Camp Dix   2 0 0
Camp Jackson   2 0 1
Allentown Ambulance Corps   5 1 0
Camp Custer   5 1 0
Camp Gordon   5 1 0
Charlestown Navy Yard   3 1 0
Camp Funston   7 3 0
Camp Lewis   5 2 1
Newport Naval Reserves   5 2 1
Camp Grant   3 1 0
Camp Taylor   2 1 0
Great Lakes Navy   4 3 0
Camp Devens   1 3 2
Camp Meade   1 2 0
League Island Marines   1 3 0
Camp Upton   0 1 0

The 1917 Camp Upton football team represented the United States Army's 77th Division that trained at Camp Upton in Yaphank on Long Island, New York, during the 1917 college football season. Former Princeton halfback Frank Glick was the team's coach. [1]

By October 1917, 30,000 recruits were stationed at Camp Upton, and athletic competition was part of the camp's training regimen. [2] Regimental football teams competed against one another before an all-cantonment team was formed in November 1917. [3]

Former Harvard All-American Robert Treat Paine Storer played for the Camp Upton all-cantonment team. [4]

On November 24, the team lost a close game to Camp Devens (coached by Harvard's Percy Haughton) at the Polo Grounds in New York City. [5]

The 77th Division was deployed to France in 1918. The Lost Battalion, part of the 77th, sustained heavy losses in the Argonne Forest in October 1918.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
November 24 Camp Devens L 0–7 [5]

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References

  1. "Ex-Tiger Captain Is Coaching Camp Upton's Strong Eleven". Akron Beacon Journal. November 22, 1917. p. 15 via Newspapers.com.
  2. George B. Underwood (October 18, 1917). "Camp Upton Seethes With Athletes and Athletics: Whole Army Cantonment Turned Into Vast Conditioning Ground Peopled by 30,000 Champions in the Making". The Sun. p. 13 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "First Football Game Played Upon Camp Upton". New York Tribune. October 28, 1917. p. 17 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Ex-Harvard Star with Camp Upton". Franklin Evening News. November 23, 1917. p. 3 via Newspapers.com.
  5. 1 2 Fred Hawthorne (November 25, 1917). "Devens Eleven Victor in Close Football Game: Haughton Soldiers Defeat Camp Upton Boys by Score of 7 to 0". New York Tribune. p. 19 via Newspapers.com.