1940 Army Cadets football team

1940 Army Cadets football
Conference	Independent
Record	1–7–1
Head coach	William H. Wood (3rd season)
Captain	William Gillis
Home stadium	Michie Stadium
Seasons ← 1939 1941 →

1940 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
No. 5 Boston College		–		11	–	0	–	0
Duquesne		–		7	–	1	–	0
No. 14 Penn		–		6	–	1	–	1
Penn State		–		6	–	1	–	1
No. 12 Fordham		–		7	–	2	–	0
No. 15 Cornell		–		6	–	2	–	0
La Salle		–		6	–	2	–	0
Princeton		–		5	–	2	–	1
Columbia		–		5	–	2	–	2
Brown		–		6	–	3	–	1
Bucknell		–		4	–	2	–	2
Boston University		–		5	–	3	–	0
Colgate		–		5	–	3	–	0
Hofstra		–		4	–	3	–	0
Harvard		–		3	–	2	–	3
Dartmouth		–		5	–	4	–	0
Temple		–		4	–	4	–	1
Tufts		–		4	–	4	–	0
Vermont		–		4	–	4	–	0
Villanova		–		4	–	5	–	0
Pittsburgh		–		3	–	4	–	1
Syracuse		–		3	–	4	–	1
Buffalo		–		3	–	5	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		3	–	5	–	0
Manhattan		–		3	–	6	–	0
Providence		–		3	–	6	–	0
NYU		–		2	–	7	–	0
Yale		–		1	–	7	–	0
Army		–		1	–	7	–	1
CCNY		–		1	–	5	–	1
Massachusetts State		–		1	–	8	–	0

Rankings from AP Poll

The 1940 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1940 college football season. In their third and final year under head coach William H. Wood, the Cadets compiled a 1–7–1 record and were outscored their opponents by a combined total of 197 to 54.^[1] The season was the first since 1899 in which the Army football team was outscored by its opponents. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets lost to the Midshipmen by a 14 to 0 score. The Cadets also suffered blowout defeats to Cornell (45-0) and Penn (48-0).^[2]

No Army players were honored on the All-America team. Three weeks after the end of the 1940 season, the War Department ordered coach Wood back to active troop duty and named Earl Blaik as head coach for the 1941 season.^[3]

Army was ranked at No. 119 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.^[4]

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Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 5	Williams	Michie Stadium West Point, NY	W 20–19		^[5]
October 12	Cornell	Michie Stadium West Point, NY	L 0–45	27,917	^[6]
October 19	at Harvard	Harvard Stadium Boston, MA	T 6–6	30,000	^[7]
October 26	Lafayette	Michie Stadium West Point, NY	L 0–19	20,000	^[8]
November 2	vs. No. 2 Notre Dame	Yankee Stadium Bronx, NY (rivalry)	L 0–7	75,474	^[9]
November 9	Brown	Michie Stadium West Point, NY	L 9–13	35,000	^[10]
November 16	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–48	47,000	^[11]
November 23	at Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	L 19–26	26,000	^[12]
November 30	vs. Navy	Philadelphia Municipal Stadium Philadelphia, PA (Army–Navy Game)	L 0–14	102,000	^[13]
Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

References

^ "Army Yearly Results (1940-1944)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
^ "1940 Army Black Knights Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved August 1, 2015.
^ "Prominent Coach to Replace Bill Wood". The Hammond (Ind.) Times (INS story). December 20, 1940. p. 26.
^ Dr. E. E. Litkenhous (December 19, 1940). "Final 1940 Litkenhous Ratings". The Boston Globe. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Army Noses Out Williams, 20-19". New York Daily News. October 6, 1940. p. 91 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Gene Ward (October 13, 1940). "Cornell 45, Army 0". New York Daily News. p. 89 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Harvard Scores Late, Ties Army, 6-6". New York Daily News. October 20, 1940. p. 97 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Lafayette Upsets Army". Sunday Call-Chronicle. October 27, 1940. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Jack Ledden (November 3, 1940). "Irish Outplayed, but Win, 7-0". New York Daily News. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Cy Peterman (November 10, 1940). "Harvard Ties Penn, 10-10: Crimson Holds Favored Rival To Draw Before 35,000 Fans". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. S1, S7 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Cy Peterman (November 17, 1940). "Penn Runs Wild to Crush Army, 48-0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. S1, S4 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Jack Smith (November 24, 1940). "Tiger Trips Army, 26-19". New York Daily News. p. 91 – via Newspapers.com.
^ John M. McCullough (December 1, 1940). "102,000 Watch Navy Defeat Army Here; Parade Thrills Colorful Crowd at Stadium". The Philadelphia Inquirer. pp. 1S, 10S – via Newspapers.com.

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