1922 Army Cadets football team

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1922 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–0–2
Head coach
Captain Fritz Breidster
Home stadium The Plain
Uniform
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1922 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Cornell  – 8 –0 –0
Princeton  – 8 –0 –0
Army  – 8 –0 –2
Syracuse  – 6 –1 –2
Franklin & Marshall  – 8 –2 –0
Pittsburgh  – 8 –2 –0
Holy Cross  – 7 –2 –1
Harvard  – 7 –2 –0
Lafayette  – 7 –2 –0
Springfield  – 6 –2 –0
Boston College  – 6 –2 –1
Brown  – 6 –2 –1
Colgate  – 6 –3 –0
Dartmouth  – 6 –3 –0
Penn  – 6 –3 –0
Vermont  – 6 –3 –0
Washington & Jefferson  – 6 –3 –1
Yale  – 6 –3 –1
Bucknell  – 7 –4 –0
Penn State  – 6 –4 –1
Carnegie Tech  – 5 –3 –1
Villanova  – 5 –3 –1
Columbia  – 5 –4 –0
Rutgers  – 5 –4 –0
Tufts  – 5 –4 –0
Rhode Island State  – 4 –4 –0
NYU  – 4 –5 –0
Fordham  – 3 –5 –2
Geneva  – 4 –6 –0
Boston University  – 2 –4 –3
Lehigh  – 3 –5 –1
New Hampshire  – 3 –5 –1
Drexel  – 2 –4 –0
Temple  – 1 –4 –1
Buffalo  – 1 –5 –0
CCNY  – 1 –6 –0
Duquesne  – 0 –8 –0

The 1922 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1922 college football season. In their eighth season under head coach Charles Dudley Daly, the Cadets compiled a 8–0–2 record, shut out seven of their ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 228 to 27, an average of 22.8 points scored and 2.7 points allowed. [1] In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets defeated the Midshipmen 17–14. [2]

Contents

Two Army players were recognized as first-team players on the All-America team: guard Fritz Breidster and center Edgar Garbisch. Garbisch was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30 Springfield
W 35–0 [3]
September 30 Lebanon Valley
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 12–0 [4]
October 7 Kansas
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 13–0
October 14 Auburn
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 19–6
October 21 New Hampshire
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 33–0 [5]
October 28at Yale
T 7–777,000 [6]
November 4 St. Bonaventure
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 53–0
November 11 Notre Dame
T 0–015,000 [7]
November 18 Bates
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 39–0
November 25vs. Navy
W 17–14

Players

Army's first-string players started only six games, against the Springfield YMCA, Kansas, Auburn, Yale, Notre Dame, and Navy. The following individuals were starters in at least two of those six games. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Army Yearly Results (1920-1924)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. ↑ "1922 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Army Has Easy Time Beating Springfield". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. October 1, 1922. p. 18. Retrieved March 24, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  4. ↑ "Army Wins Over Lebanon Valley and Springfield Elevens". New-York Tribune . New York, New York. October 1, 1922. p. 13. Retrieved March 24, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  5. ↑ "Army Vanquishes The New Hampshire State Eleven, 33-0". New-York Tribune . October 22, 1922. p. 17. Retrieved February 16, 2020– via newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ Marshall Hunt (October 29, 1922). "Fighting Cadets' Rally Gives Army Tie with Yale, 7-7". New York Daily News. p. 43 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Forward passes fail, Army held scoreless". Milwaukee Journal. November 12, 1922. p. 1, part 3.
  8. ↑ 1923 "The Howitzer" (USMA yearbook), pp. 295-298 and 338-344.
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