1922 Army Cadets football team

American college football season

1922 Army Cadets football

Conference	Independent
Record	8–0–2
Head coach	Charles Dudley Daly (8th season)
Captain	Fritz Breidster
Home stadium	The Plain
Uniform

Seasons ← 1921 1923 →

1922 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Cornell		–		8	–	0	–	0
Princeton		–		8	–	0	–	0
Army		–		8	–	0	–	2
Syracuse		–		6	–	1	–	2
Franklin & Marshall		–		8	–	2	–	0
Pittsburgh		–		8	–	2	–	0
Holy Cross		–		7	–	2	–	1
Harvard		–		7	–	2	–	0
Lafayette		–		7	–	2	–	0
Springfield		–		6	–	2	–	0
Boston College		–		6	–	2	–	1
Brown		–		6	–	2	–	1
Colgate		–		6	–	3	–	0
Dartmouth		–		6	–	3	–	0
Penn		–		6	–	3	–	0
Vermont		–		6	–	3	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		6	–	3	–	1
Yale		–		6	–	3	–	1
Bucknell		–		7	–	4	–	0
Penn State		–		6	–	4	–	1
Carnegie Tech		–		5	–	3	–	1
Villanova		–		5	–	3	–	1
Columbia		–		5	–	4	–	0
Rutgers		–		5	–	4	–	0
Tufts		–		5	–	4	–	0
Rhode Island State		–		4	–	4	–	0
NYU		–		4	–	5	–	0
Fordham		–		3	–	5	–	2
Geneva		–		4	–	6	–	0
Boston University		–		2	–	4	–	3
Lehigh		–		3	–	5	–	1
New Hampshire		–		3	–	5	–	1
Drexel		–		2	–	4	–	0
Temple		–		1	–	4	–	1
Buffalo		–		1	–	5	–	0
CCNY		–		1	–	6	–	0
Duquesne		–		0	–	8	–	0

The 1922 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1922 college football season. In their eighth season under head coach Charles Dudley Daly, the Cadets compiled a 8–0–2 record, shut out seven of their ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 228 to 27, an average of 22.8 points scored and 2.7 points allowed.^[1] In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets defeated the Midshipmen 17–14.^[2]

Two Army players were recognized as first-team players on the All-America team: guard Fritz Breidster and center Edgar Garbisch. Garbisch was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 30	Springfield	The Plain West Point, NY	W 35–0		^[3]
September 30	Lebanon Valley	The Plain West Point, NY	W 12–0		^[4]
October 7	Kansas	The Plain West Point, NY	W 13–0
October 14	Auburn	The Plain West Point, NY	W 19–6		^[5]
October 21	New Hampshire	The Plain West Point, NY	W 33–0		^[6]
October 28	at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	T 7–7	77,000	^[7]
November 4	St. Bonaventure	The Plain West Point, NY	W 53–0
November 11	Notre Dame	The Plain West Point, NY (rivalry)	T 0–0	15,000	^[8]
November 18	Bates	The Plain West Point, NY	W 39–0
November 25	vs. Navy	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA (Army–Navy Game)	W 17–14

Players

Army's first-string players started only six games, against the Springfield YMCA, Kansas, Auburn, Yale, Notre Dame, and Navy. The following individuals were starters in at least two of those six games.^[9]

Fritz Breidster - started 5 games at left guard, 1 game at right guard
Francis Dodd - started 3 games at right halfback
August W. Farwick - started 1 game at right tackle, 1 game at left guard, 4 games at right guard
Edgar Garbisch - started 5 games at center
Sanford J. Goodman - started 2 games at left tackle, 4 games at right tackle
Charles W. Lawrence - started 1 game at right halfback, 1 game at left halfback
Dennis J. Mulligan - started 1 game at right tackle, 4 games at left tackle
Charles T. Myers - started 3 games at left end, 2 games at right end
George Winfered Smythe - started 6 games at quarterback
Patrick W. Timberlake - started 5 games at left halfback
Washington M. Ives - started 2 game at right halfback
Walter C. White - started 2 games at left end, 3 games at right end
William H. Wood - started 6 games at fullback

References

^ "Army Yearly Results (1920-1924)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
^ "1922 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
^ "Army Has Easy Time Beating Springfield". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 1, 1922. p. 18. Retrieved March 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Army Wins Over Lebanon Valley and Springfield Elevens". New-York Tribune. New York, New York. October 1, 1922. p. 13. Retrieved March 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "West Point Cadets defeat Auburn, 19 to 6". New York Tribune. October 15, 1922. Retrieved December 15, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Army Vanquishes The New Hampshire State Eleven, 33-0". New-York Tribune. October 22, 1922. p. 17. Retrieved February 16, 2020 – via newspapers.com.
^ Marshall Hunt (October 29, 1922). "Fighting Cadets' Rally Gives Army Tie with Yale, 7-7". New York Daily News. p. 43 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Forward passes fail, Army held scoreless". Milwaukee Journal. November 12, 1922. p. 1, part 3.
^ 1923 "The Howitzer" (USMA yearbook), pp. 295-298 and 338-344.

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