1918 League Island Marines football team

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1918 League Island Marines football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–1
Head coach
Seasons
  1917
1918 military service football records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 12at Lehigh Bethlehem, PA L 0–6 [4]
October 26at Penn W 7–02,500 [5]
November 2at LehighBethlehem, PAW 14–3 [6] [7]
November 9at Swarthmore Swarthmore, PA W 6–2 [8] [9]
November 16 Brown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 21–7 [10]
November 23at Georgetown
W 34–7 [11]
November 30 Charleston Navy Yard
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 27–7 [12]
December 7 Camp Hancock
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 13–612,000 [13] [14]

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  12. "League Islanders Defeat Charleston". The Philadelphia Inquirer. December 1, 1918. p. 22 via Newspapers.com.
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