1893 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–5
Head coach
CaptainThomas Gillespie Carson
Home stadiumThe Plain
1893 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton    11 0 0
Fordham    4 0 0
Harvard    12 1 0
Yale    10 1 0
Colgate    3 0 2
Penn    12 3 0
Penn State    4 1 0
Wesleyan    4 1 0
Swarthmore    6 2 1
Holy Ghost    5 2 0
Lehigh    7 3 0
Brown    6 3 0
Carlisle    2 1 0
Delaware    2 1 0
Frankin & Marshall    4 2 1
Navy    5 3 0
Washington & Jefferson    5 3 0
Drexel    3 2 0
Bucknell    4 3 0
Amherst    7 6 1
Boston College    3 3 0
Geneva    2 2 1
Army    4 5 0
Williams    2 3 1
Tufts    4 7 0
Cornell    3 6 1
Worcester Tech    2 4 1
Boston University    1 2 0
Lafayette    3 6 0
Syracuse    4 9 1
Western Penn    1 4 0
MIT    1 5 0
Massachusetts    1 9 0
New Hampshire    0 1 0
Rutgers    0 4 0
Maine    0 5 0

The 1893 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1893 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Laurie Bliss, the Cadets compiled a 4–5 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 109 to 84.[1][2] In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets lost to the Midshipmen by a 6 to 4 score.[3]

No Army Cadets were honored on the 1893 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
September 30Volunteer ACL 4–6
October 73:30 p.m.Lafayette
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 36–0[4]
October 14Lehigh
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 0–18
October 21Amherst
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 12–4
October 28Yale
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 0–28
November 4Union (NY)
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 6–0
November 11Trinity (CT)
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
W 18–11
November 18Princeton
  • The Plain
  • West Point, NY
L 4–36
December 2NavyL 4–6

Players

The following Cadets were members of the 1893 Army football team.[3]

  • Thales Lucius Ames, Wisconsin - center
  • Dwight Edward Aultman, Pennsylvania - right tackle (USS General D. E. Aultman (AP-156) named in his honor)
  • John Somerville Battle, North Carolina - left tackle
  • A. P. Berry
  • W. J. Borden
  • Jens Bugge, Jr., Minnesota
  • Reynolds Johnson Burt, Ohio
  • Thomas Gillespie Carson, Illinois - fullback
  • William Durward Connor, Iowa
  • Samuel George Creden, Massachusetts - backup quarterback
  • Samuel Field Dallam, Pennsylvania
  • Chase Doster, Kansas
  • Ralph Willard Drury, Massachusetts
  • Daniel Duncan, Kentucky - backup left halfback
  • James Paxton Harbeson, Kentucky - right end
  • James Villard Heidt, Georgia
  • James William Hinkley, Jr., New York - quarterback
  • Franklin Swart Hutton, New York
  • Edward Leonard King, Massachusetts
  • Abraham Grant Lott, Kansas - left guard
  • Willard Herman McCornack, Illinois
  • Dennis E. Nolan, New York - left end
  • Paul Reisinger, Pennsylvania
  • Otho Bane Rosenbaum, Virginia
  • George Henry Shelton, Connecticut - left halfback
  • Fine Wilson Smith, Kentucky - right guard
  • Lucian Stacey, Maine - right halfback
  • David Sheridan Stanley
  • Harry Howard Stout, Pennsylvania
  • W. A. White
  • Clarence Charles Williams, Georgia

References

  1. "Army Yearly Results (1890-1894)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  2. "1893 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Middies Again Triumphant: West Point Cadets Whipped at Football by Two Points" (PDF). The New York Times. December 3, 1893.
  4. "West Point, 36; Lafayette, 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, New York. October 8, 1893. p. 3. Retrieved September 8, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.


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