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1904 Army Cadets football team

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Conference
  
Independent

Home stadium
  
The Plain

1904 record
  
7–2

Head coach
  
Robert Boyers (1st year)

The 1904 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1904 college football season. In their first season under head coach Robert Boyers, the Cadets compiled a 7–2 record, shut out five of their nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 136 to 27. The team's only losses were to Harvard (4–0) and Princeton (17–5). In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets defeated the Midshipmen by an 11 to 0 score.

Five members of the squad were honored by one or both of Walter Camp (WC) and Caspar Whitney (CW) on the 1904 College Football All-America Team. They are: center Arthur Tipton (WC-1, CW-1); back Henry Torney (CW-1); end Alexander Garfield Gillespie (WC-2); halfback Frederick Prince (CW-2); and tackle Thomas Doe (WC-3).

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1904 Army Cadets football team Wikipedia