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1916 Team

May 11, 2013 – 4:45 pm

Year Team Coach W L T PF PA Delta Avg.Delta

1916 Army Daly 9 0 0 235 36 199 22.1

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_undefeated_NCAA_Division_I_football_teams

no 1917 Howitzer found online

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Army Team 1916: Watkins, Schlenker, Weems, Baird, Gerhardt, Meacham, Yeager, Shrader, Niles, Witters, Place, Holmes, Harmon, Green, Oliphant, McEwan, Butler, Vidal, Parks, O. F. Knight, Lewis, Hahn, Williamson, Mitchell, Kilburn, Cole, Fleming, House, Tully, Wicks, Tate, Schwarzkopf, Chapman, Frier, Jones, Mullins, Stokes, C. P. Bathurst, Pulsifer, J. Knight, Hirsch, Maloney, Benchler, Murrill, R. Bathurst, Halsey, Monroe, McNeill, Johnson

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ARMY CONQUERS NAVY, 15-7, AMID CHEERS OF 45,000; Oliphant the Chief Figure in West Point’s Victory at the Polo Grounds. MAKES A RUN OF 83 YARDS Goodstein Scores for Losers by Turning Blocked Kick Into a Touchdown. NOTABLES IN GAY THRONG President Wilson Absent, but Crowd Includes Men Prominent in All Walks of Life.
– New York Times – Nov 26, 1916
More than 45,000 cheering spectators saw the Army football team defeat the Navy by a score of 15 to 7 at the Polo Grounds yesterday. Famous for its gala crowds, the annual contest never attracted a more brilliant assemblage, while spectacular playing, especially by Oliphant and Vidal, the Army stars, transformed the banks of the huge eclipse of the Brush stadium into a mass of shouting, flag-waving humanity.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20E10FB345B17738DDDAF0A94D9415B868DF1D3


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Army Deserving Of High Average – The Day – Nov 30, 1916
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VP0gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=onUFAAAAIBAJ&dq=football%20philadelphia&pg=4823%2C3166922

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John Alexander Street

October 13, 2012 – 1:59 pm

No. 5537 Class of 1916 Killed by a shell on the 4th of October, 1918, near Epionville, Department of the Meuse, France, aged 27 years.

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Alfred King King

October 12, 2012 – 1:57 pm

No. 5510 Class of 1916. His Service, the circumstances of his death needs to be read in detail. FA Killed in Action at approximently two PM, Lanenville, France November 10,1918. Awarded DSC

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John Howard Wills

October 11, 2012 – 1:57 pm

No. 5477. Class of 1916 Reported in list of casualties August 4, 1918, as “Killed in Action”, aged 23 years DSC

When the casualty lists of early August, 1918, came to us we learned that Major John Howard Wills, Class of 1916, had laid down his life for the cause for which we are fighting.
Major Wills was born in Auburn, Alabama, on June 21, 1895, the son of Nannie Fleming Wills and Lieutenant John H. Wills, Class of 1881. He spent his boyhood days in Auburn and received his early education there, in the Primary and High Schools. After
finishing High School he attended the Alabama Polytechnic Institute for two and one half years. In his Junior year he left the Institute to prepare for entrance to the Military Academy.

He was appointed to the Academy from the Third Alabama District and entered on June 15, 1912, prior to his seventeenth birthday. He was the youngest member of his class.
In spite of his youth, his hard work and natural abilities led him, at graduation, to the highest position of honor.

As a cadet his life was saddened by the death of his mother, leaving him an orphan, for his father had died while he was still a baby.

He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Engineers June 13, 1916, and promoted to First Lieutenancy July 1, 1916. He was promoted to Captain on May 15, 1917, and was appointed temporarily a Major in the Corps of Engineers, early in April, 1918.

He was assigned to the First Regiment of Engineers after Graduation, went to France with that Regiment, and, as far as we are able to learn, was still on duty with it at the time of his death.

The Class of 1916 and the Army suffer an irreparable loss by the death of this classmate and officer. Johnny, as he was affectionately known by his classmates and friends, possessed a strong end lovable character. His never failing good humor, his sunny disposition, his generosity, and his ready willingness to aid his less gifted classmates, made him universally admired and esteemed. Our sadness for his loss is tempered by our deep feeling of pride for this son of our Alma Mater, who has made the supreme sacrifice for his country.

Hall of Valor <bnr>
http://militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=15470

Alabama in European War
http://www.archives.state.al.us/goldstar/images/card/Wills_John_Howard.pdf

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