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The 1942 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1942 college football season. In their second year under head coach Earl Blaik, the Cadets compiled a 6–3 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 149 to 74. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets lost to the Midshipmen by a 14 to 0 score. The Cadets also lost to Penn and Notre Dame.[1]

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Record6–3
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1942 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–3
Head coach
CaptainHenry Mazur
Home stadiumMichie Stadium
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1942 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Williams – 7–1–0
No. 19 Penn State – 6–1–1
No. 8 Boston College – 8–2–0
Buffalo – 6–2–0
Bucknell – 6–2–1
Colgate – 6–2–1
Army – 6–3–0
Syracuse – 6–3–0
Duquesne – 6–3–1
Yale – 5–3–0
Fordham – 5–3–1
Penn – 5–3–1
No. T–19 Holy Cross – 5–4–1
Dartmouth – 5–4–0
Brown – 4–4–0
Villanova – 4–4–0
Vermont – 4–3–0
Carnegie Tech – 3–3–0
Boston University – 4–5–0
Cornell – 3–5–1
Princeton – 3–5–1
Temple – 2–5–3
Columbia – 3–6–0
Pittsburgh – 3–6–0
Tufts – 2–5–1
Franklin & Marshall – 1–4–2
Massachusetts State – 2–5–0
Harvard – 2–6–1
Manhattan – 2–6–0
CCNY – 1–7–1
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Four Army players were honored on the 1942 College Football All-America Team. Tackle Robin Olds was selected as a first-team player by Grantland Rice for Collier's Weekly. Tackle Francis E. Merritt was selected as a second-team player by both the Central Press Association (CP) and the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) and was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. Halfback Henry Mazur was selected as a second-team player by the International News Service (INS). End James Kelleher was selected as a third-team player by the Sporting News and NEA.

Army was ranked at No. 28 (out of 590 college and military teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1942.[2]

Schedule

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DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendance
October 3LafayetteW 14–07,000[3]
October 10Cornell
  • Michie Stadium
  • West Point, NY
W 28–8
October 17at ColumbiaNo. 18W 34–6
October 24at HarvardNo. 11W 14–0
October 31at No. 14 PennNo. 8L 0–19
November 7vs. No. 4 Notre DameNo. 19L 0–1374,946
November 14VPI
  • Michie Stadium
  • West Point, NY
W 19–710,000
November 21vs. Princeton
  • Yankee Stadium
  • Bronx, NY
W 40–7
November 28at NavyL 0–14
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game
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AP18118 (1)19————
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