Mike Belter – I finally finished that book on the 1914 Army Football Team, and published it as an e-Book.

It is available in multiple formats on Smashwords for free, and also available at a number of online bookstores, though they might charge you.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=A+Forgotten+First+National+Championship%3A++The+1914+Army+Football+Team

Because some folks either do not like or have access to e-Books, a paperback is available on CreateSpace and Amazon for about $23.  All profits from any sales will be divided between AOG and WP.org.     https://www.createspace.com/6412604

1914 Army 9-0

1914/11/28 Army 20 – Navy 0 W

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Omar Bradley is the 3d from the left in the 2d row.

Coach Charles Dudley Daly
Army:
1913-1916
1919-1922

Overall: 58-13-3

sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dudley_Daly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_undefeated_NCAA_Division_I_football_teams

Howitzer 1915
http://digital-library.usma.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/howitzers/id/13974/rec/18

The importance of beating Navy streaches back well before the 1914 Season

The Team was Coached by Lt Charles Daly Class of 1905. Its Captain was Vernon Prichard Class of 1915

Members of the Class of 1915 included Louis Merillat, James Van Fleet, Omar Bradley, Paul Hodgson Charles Benedict, Hubert Harmon and Leland Hobbs

Dwight Eisenhower  sustained an injury. As a result he only earned an Army A his Yearling year — 1912. He assisted as a coach for the Cullum Hall team.

The score was Army 20 – Navy 0

The Plebe Team was referred to as the Cullum Hall Squad.

Baseball team..Omar Bradley is second from left in front row

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ARMY-AND NAVY END PRACTICES FOR THEIR GAME- Atlanta Constitution – Nov 27, 1914

Army And Navy Teams in Annual Gridiron Contest
About 33,000 Spectators Witness Football Struggle at Philadelphia This Afternoon – Army Scored Safety and Two Touchdowns in First Half – The Day – Nov 28, 1914
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TvogAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bXUFAAAAIBAJ&dq=football%20philadelphia&pg=1965%2C3084137

Largest Crowd On Record At Army And Navy Game – Sunday Tribune – Nov 28, 1914
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dTFhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=D2MNAAAAIBAJ&dq=football%20philadelphia&pg=3511%2C3552667

Army And Navy In Their Greatest Fight Of The Year…Surrounded by Mighty Crowd, cadets and Middies battle on Franklin Field Today – Army is Slight favorite – The Day – Nov 28, 1914
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=TvogAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bXUFAAAAIBAJ&dq=football%20philadelphia&pg=6342%2C3147617

ARMY SHUTS OUT NAVY BY 20 TO 0. – Boston Evening Transcript – Nov 29, 1914
PHILADELPHIA, Nov 28–The West Point football players today beat Annapolis, 20 to 0, this afternoon before the biggest crowd ever assembled on Franklin Field, the Cadets superiority being even greater than indicated by the…

Boston Daily Globe – Nov 29, 1914
PHILADELPHIA, Nov 28–The West Point football players today beat Annapolis, 20 to 0, this afternoon before the biggest crowd ever assembled on Franklin Field…

ARMY TEAM WELCOMED.; Annual Homecoming Scenes at West Point ;- Wyand Elected Captain.- New York Times – Nov 30, 1914
WEST POINT, N.Y., Nov. 29. — The victorious Army football team reached home at 4 o’clock this afternoon and received a rousing welcome. The scenes which annually feature the homecoming of the football men, whether they are winners or losers, were enacted, although, if possible, with a little more enthusiasm than in the past.
The football men brought with them from Philadelphia the blue and gold blanket which has adorned the back: of the Navy;s mascot goat for many years…

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F0071FF63C5C13738DDDA90B94D9415B848DF1D3

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Cadet Stilwell seated front row next to Team mate with large Army A. Stilwell earned his Football A as an Army Quarterback.

The Team went 6-2-1, beating the Nationally Acclaimed University of Chicago. They played Navy at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. The Coach was Edward King Class of 1896 while the Captain was Edward Farsworth

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Howitzer 1904
http://digital-library.usma.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/howitzers/id/8945/rec/51

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The following is from ‘Bill Stern’s Favorite Football Stories’ published in 1948 by Blue Ribbon Books, Garden City, NY:

VINEGAR JOE

On November 14, 1903, the great Chicago University football team, with the immortal Walter Eckersall, (http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/eckersall.shtml) came to West Point to play against an under-dog Army team. The odds were twenty-to-one that Eckersall with his trip-hammer Chicago teammates would slaughter the Army team.

As the game opened, Chicago lived up to all advance notices. Their methods were revolutionary and revelationary, but by some miracle, the Army players managed to plow through for a touchdown. Whereupon, the enraged Eckersall and his equally angry teammates ripped through for a touchdown to tie the score a 6 to 6. And there it stood as the game moved foot by foot, yard by yard toward its finish. Suddenly, with very little time left in the game, the Army quarterback was hurt. And from the Army substitute bench came Joe!

And the guy named Joe found himself nose-guard to nose-guard with the famous Walter Eckersall probably the greatest quarterback in gridiron history.

Well, Army started down the field with a touchdown glint in its eye. But there was a fumble on the ten-yard line and Chicago grabbed the ball. Eckersall fell back to his five-yard line for a neat kick and the ball landed directly in Joe’s hands on the 45-yard line. The substitute might have done the usual thing of trying to carry the ball. If he had done that, he might have been tackled and dropped in his tracks, – for the great Eckersall was bearing down on him even while the punt was still in the air.

But substitute Joe was an unusual guy. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Eckersall charging down at him – so, he made a split-second decision. He simply decided to “hold”. He was half crouched when the decision was reached, and it caught Eckersall completely off guard. The Chicagoan, expecting him to dash off, interfered. It was a costly blunder. Chicago was penalized 25 yards and the ball moved down to the 20-yard line. The substitute Joe, by deciding merely to hold, outfoxed the great Eckersall. And so, with only a few minutes left to play, Army gambled on a field goal. They made it, and the game was won by Army, with a single field goal. It was one of the most stunning football upsets in gridiron history!

Substitute Joe became the hero of the hour – and all because he had made that split-second decision which brought a startling victory.

That was “Vinegar Joe” – a football hero from long ago – known the world over, until his death, as General Joe Stilwell, who commanded the U. S. forces in the East and bedeviled the foe with the sledge-hammer tactics he learned as a number one football star at West Point

Cadet Joe Stilwell – later to be remembered as Vinegar Joe Stilwell

NO ARMY-NAVY CONTESTS; Eligibility Rule Dispute May Pre- vent Annual Games. Charles Daly, Famous Quarter Back and Former Harvard Captain, Will Not Play Again. – Mar 25 1903

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0910FF385D16738DDDAC0A94DB405B838CF1D3

ARMY AND NAVY FOOTBALL; West Point and…- New York Times – Nov 27, 1903
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30915FF345F1B738DDDA10A94D9415B838CF1D3

Army Versus Navy Football At Philadelphia
Newburgh Daily Journal – Nov 28, 1903
… looked upon as a football society function rather than as a spectacular gridiron, battle, and ‘or that reason the demand for tickets has been enormous…
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6rpgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZXMNAAAAIBAJ&dq=football%20philadelphia&pg=4401%2C4337637

Army Against Navy Rival Cadets Meet…- Boston Evening Transcript – Nov 28, 1903
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Ux00AAAAIBAJ&sjid=xOAIAAAAIBAJ&dq=football%20philadelphia&pg=4866%2C3766033

Douglas MacArthur Class of 1903 was injured playing football.

1955 Army 6-3 Coaches#15 AP#20
1955/11/26 Army 14 – Navy 6 W

Coach: Earl Henry “Red” Blaik (February 15, 1897 – May 6, 1989)

Dartmouth 1934-1940 – 45-15-4
Army: 1941-1958 – 121-33-10
Overall: 166-48-14
Awards:
All-American, 1919
AFCA Coach of the Year (1946)
College Football Hall of Fame Inducted in 1964
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Army-Navy preview – SI

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/edb/reader.html?magID=SI&issueDate=19551128&mode=reader_vault

With Don Holleder, converted from an All American End to Quarterback, Army beats Navy 14 to 6 November 26, 1955. Pat Uebel was Team Captain.

Click below for Donald Walter Holleder Documentary Part 1 of 2 Video on you tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmHZ9deXiYc
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Army Loss to Michigan October 8th 1955

Click here for Video

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articles provided by Russ “Skip” Grimm – Class of ’76

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May 14, 2003

Army vs Navy, 1955 – RABBLE takes a look back on the 1955 Army-Navy game.

1955 was the year of Red Blaik’s “Great Quarterback” Experiment. Faced without a proven quarterback since Pete Vann had graduated earlier that spring, Blaik remained in a quandry. “Who do I play at QB for my team this season?” The Master came up with the idea that he would take his best athlete on the team and place him at the position. That job fell to All-American End Don Holleder. Was Holleder up to the task? He was most certainly up to that task.

Sailors cold until the game was in the bag. They solved Navy’s new defense for this game, a wlde 6-2. And they hammered Navy’s weak spots relentlessly.

Heroes on both sides were numerous. Besides Uebel, Holleder and Lash, there was Dick Murtland, who piled up yardage on the dive play; Chesnauskas at right end, Flay Goodwin and Stan Slater at the guards and Dick Stephenson at tackle.

For Navy, it was Welsh, as expected, who overshadowed his teammates with his passing. His 18 for 29 and 176 yards was a great effort. Ron Beagle was tremendous at left end. So were John Hopkins at left tackle, Dick Guest at fullback, Wilson Whitmire at center and Ned Oldham at halfback.

Navy’s Score

At the outset Navy looked like even more than the one touchdown favorite it was. The Sailors won the toss, received the kickoff and went all the way without giving up the ball. Welsh threw his first pass from his own 30-yard line to Beagle and it brought a first down on the Navy 38. Even a 15-yard penalty couldn’t stop the Tars. Welsh more than made it up by throwing to Gober, moving the ball to midfield.

Gober, Guest and Oldham ran to the 35, from where Gober got away and in two efforts reached the Army 12. With the running game momentarily clogged, Welsh threw to Guest in the flat for a first down on the 1, and on the next play sneaked over through guard for the touchdown. With Welsh holding the ball, Oldham’s’ kick for the seventh point went to the left of the posts and it was 6-0.

At the moment that missed point didn’t seem important, but it grew larger as the game went on. Navy fumbled and Slater; recovered for Army on the 21.

From there the, Soldiers battered and smashed their way to the clinching touchdown in four plays. Uebel, Murtland and Holleder took the biggest bites until Uebel reached Navy’s 23-yard line. At that point Lash started inside Navy’s vulnerable right tackle, slid around when the hole jammed, and went all the way.

Only 3 minutes, 45 seconds were left at that time, and when the final whistle shrilled with Army again on the march, Cadet elation knew no bounds. A wave of gray surged on the field, engulfed the Army player and swept them to the Navy side of the field. When It reversed, it bore Holleder on its shoulders, then Uebel, then Chesnauskas, and all but carried them to the dressing room exit. This was the 29th Army victory in the series, to 23 for Navy and four ties.

ARMY

LE-Johnson, Saunders
LT-Reid
LG-Slater, Bishop
C–Szvtecz, Kernan
RG-Goodwin, Shannon
RT-Stephenson
RE-Chesnauskis, Butterfield
QB-Holleder,Mericle
LH-Murtland
RH-Lash, Zeigler
FB-Uebel

NAVY

LE-Beagle
LT-Hopkins
LG-Dander, Mohn
C–Whitmire, Wood
RG-Stremic, Hower
RT-McCooL Royer
RE-Owen, Smith
QB-Welsh
LH-Oldham, Malynn
RH-Burchett, Gober
FB-Guest, Monto

NAVY 6 0 0 0 – 6
ARMY 0 0 7 7 – 14

ARMY- – Touchdowns: Uebel (4-yard Plunge) ; Lash (23-yard run)
Conversions: Chesnauskas 2.

Navy- – Touchdown: Welsh (1-yard sneak)

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The 1955 Army Navy game link previously posted is no longer available

it night be viewed with appropriate plugins or ordered at

ARMY DEFEATS NAVY IN 56TH FOOTBALL CLASSIC – 1955

http://www.efootage.com/stock-footage/54179/Army_Defeats_Navy_In_56th_Football_Classic_-_1955/

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Provided by Russ “Skip” Grimm – Class of ’76