Wikiwand AI

1940 Army Cadets football team

American college football season From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The 1940 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy as an independent during the 1940 college football season. In their third and final year under head coach William H. Wood, the Cadets compiled a 1–7–1 record and were outscored their opponents by a combined total of 197 to 54. The season was the first since 1899 in which the Army football team was outscored by its opponents. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets lost to the Midshipmen by a 14 to 0 score. The Cadets also suffered blowout defeats to Cornell (45-0) and Penn (48-0).[1]

ConferenceIndependent
Record1–7–1
Headcoach
CaptainWilliam Gillis
Quick facts Army Cadets football, Conference ...
1940 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–7–1
Head coach
CaptainWilliam Gillis
Home stadiumMichie Stadium
Seasons
← 1939
1941 →
Close
More information Conf., Overall ...
1940 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 5 Boston College – 11–0–0
Duquesne – 7–1–0
No. 14 Penn – 6–1–1
Penn State – 6–1–1
No. 12 Fordham – 7–2–0
No. 15 Cornell – 6–2–0
La Salle – 6–2–0
Princeton – 5–2–1
Columbia – 5–2–2
Brown – 6–3–1
Bucknell – 4–2–2
Boston University – 5–3–0
Colgate – 5–3–0
Hofstra – 4–3–0
Harvard – 3–2–3
Dartmouth – 5–4–0
Temple – 4–4–1
Tufts – 4–4–0
Vermont – 4–4–0
Villanova – 4–5–0
Pittsburgh – 3–4–1
Syracuse – 3–4–1
Buffalo – 3–5–0
Carnegie Tech – 3–5–0
Manhattan – 3–6–0
Providence – 3–6–0
NYU – 2–7–0
Yale – 1–7–0
Army – 1–7–1
CCNY – 1–5–1
Massachusetts State – 1–8–0
Rankings from AP Poll
Close

No Army players were honored on the All-America team. Three weeks after the end of the 1940 season, the War Department ordered coach Wood back to active troop duty and named Earl Blaik as head coach for the 1941 season.[2]

Army was ranked at No. 119 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.[3]

Schedule

More information Date, Opponent ...
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5WilliamsW 20–19[4]
October 12Cornell
  • Michie Stadium
  • West Point, NY
L 0–4527,917[5]
October 19at HarvardT 6–630,000[6]
October 26Lafayette
  • Michie Stadium
  • West Point, NY
L 0–1920,000[7]
November 2vs. No. 2 Notre DameL 0–775,474[8]
November 9Brown
  • Michie Stadium
  • West Point, NY
L 9–1335,000[9]
November 16at PennL 0–4847,000[10]
November 23at PrincetonL 19–2626,000[11]
November 30vs. NavyL 0–14102,000[12]
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
Close

References

Related Articles

Timelines

Top Qs

Fact Checks