1897 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–1–1
Head coach
CaptainWilliam Nesbitt
Home stadiumThe Plain
1897 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn    15 0 0
Princeton    10 1 0
Washington & Jefferson    10 1 0
Yale    9 0 2
Buffalo    9 1 0
Harvard    10 1 1
Army    6 1 1
Vermont    3 0 2
Lafayette    9 2 1
Drexel    6 2 1
Colgate    5 2 1
Dickinson    7 3 2
Swarthmore    7 3 2
Fordham    2 1 1
Cornell    5 3 1
Syracuse    5 3 1
Brown    7 4 0
Carlisle    6 4 0
Boston College    4 3 0
Holy Cross    4 3 1
Bucknell    3 3 1
NYU    3 3 0
Temple    3 3 0
Trinity (CT)    4 4 1
Wesleyan    6 6 0
Tufts    6 7 0
Geneva    3 4 1
Pittsburgh College    3 5 2
Villanova    3 5 1
Penn State    3 6 0
Amherst    2 6 2
Frankin & Marshall    2 6 2
Lehigh    3 7 0
New Hampshire    2 5 0
Rutgers    2 6 0
Western Univ. Penn.    1 3 0

The 1897 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1897 college football season. In their first season under head coach Herman Koehler, the Cadets compiled a 6–1–1 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 194 to 41.[1] The Cadets suffered their only loss against Harvard by a 10 to 0 score and played Yale to a 6–6 tie. The Army–Navy Game was not played in 1897.[2]

Three Army Cadets were honored on the 1897 College Football All-America Team. Halfback William Nesbitt received second-team honors from Walter Camp. Quarterback Leon Kromer received second-team honors from the New York Sun. Tackle Wallace Scales received second-team honors from Walter Camp and The New York Sun.[3][4]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2Trinity (CT)W 38–6
October 9Wesleyan
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 12–9
October 16Harvard
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 0–102,000[5]
October 23Tufts
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 30–0
October 30Yale
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
T 6–6
November 6Lehigh
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 48–6
November 13Stevens
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 18–4
November 202:55 p.m.Brown
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 42–02,000[6][7]

References

  1. "Army Yearly Results (1895-1899)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. "1897 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  3. "Camp's Champion Eleven: Chamberlin, Brown, De Saulles and Hall of Yale All-American Leaders". New Haven Evening Register. December 8, 1897.
  4. "An Arduous Task: The Choosing of an All American Representative Football Team". Evening News. Lincoln, Nebraska. December 15, 1897 via reprinted from New York Sun.
  5. "Hot Work on the Gridiron: Harvard Defeats West Point 10-0 After a Stubborn Contest". The Boston Globe. October 17, 1897. p. 1 via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  6. "West Point Cadets Beat Brown, 42 to 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, New York. November 21, 1897. p. 8. Retrieved March 11, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. "Easy For West Point". The Sun. New York, New York. November 21, 1897. p. 3. Retrieved March 11, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.


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