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1934 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–3
Head coach
CaptainJoseph Stancook
Home stadium Michie Stadium
Seasons
←  1933
1935 →
1934 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Tufts     8 0 0
Trinity (CT)     7 0 0
La Salle     7 0 1
Washington College     5 0 1
Franklin & Marshall     8 1 0
No. 4 Pittsburgh     8 1 0
No. 8 Colgate     7 1 0
Columbia     7 1 0
No. 5 Princeton     7 1 0
Duquesne     8 2 0
Holy Cross     8 2 0
No. 15 Temple     7 1 2
No. 10 Syracuse     6 2 0
Bucknell     7 2 2
No. 14 Army     7 3 0
Northeastern     6 1 1
Rochester     5 2 0
Dartmouth     6 3 0
Saint Anselm     6 3 0
Amherst     5 3 0
Fordham     5 3 0
Yale     5 3 0
Massachusetts State     5 3 1
CCNY     4 3 0
Providence     4 3 0
Drexel     4 3 1
Boston College     5 4 0
Bates     3 3 1
Middlebury     3 3 1
Penn     4 4 0
Penn State     4 4 0
Williams     4 4 0
Carnegie Tech     4 5 0
Washington & Jefferson     4 5 0
Villanova     3 4 2
NYU     3 4 1
Boston University     3 4 0
Colby     3 4 0
Springfield     2 3 3
Manhattan     3 5 1
Harvard     3 5 0
Vermont     2 4 2
Wesleyan     3 5 0
Brown     3 6 0
Geneva     2 5 2
Saint Joseph's     2 5 1
Cornell     2 5 0
Lafayette     2 6 0
Norwich     2 6 0
Bowdoin     0 6 1
Lowell Textile     0 7 1
Rankings from Associated Press

The 1934 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1934 college football season. In their second year under head coach Garrison H. Davidson, the Cadets compiled a 7–3 record, shut out five of their ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 215 to 40. [1] In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Midshipmen won 3–0. The Cadets also lost to Notre Dame 12–6 and Illinois by a 7 to 0 score. [2]

Halfback Jack Buckler was selected by the College Sports Writers as a second-team player on the All-America team. [3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29 WashburnW 19–0
October 6 Davidson
  • Michie Stadium
  • West Point, NY
W 41–09,000 [4]
October 13 Drake
  • Michie Stadium
  • West Point, NY
W 48–0
October 20 Sewanee
  • Michie Stadium
  • West Point, NY
W 20–0 [5]
October 27at YaleW 20–12
November 3at IllinoisL 0–7
November 10at HarvardW 27–6
November 17 The Citadel
  • Michie Stadium
  • West Point, NY
W 34–0
November 24vs. Notre DameL 6–1278,757
December 1vs. NavyL 0–3

References

  1. ^ "Army Yearly Results (1930-1934)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
  2. ^ "1934 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 31, 2015.
  3. ^ "All-America Addendum" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. May 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 13, 2010. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  4. ^ "Well-oiled Cadets rout Davidson, 41–0". The Chattanooga Daily Times. October 7, 1934. Retrieved September 4, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Army defeats Sewanee, 20–0". The Pittsburgh Press. October 21, 1934. Retrieved August 13, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.