1941 Army Cadets Football Team

The 1941 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1941 college football season.

In their first year under head coach Earl Blaik, the Cadets compiled a 5–3–1 record and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 105 to 87.

1941 Army Cadets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3–1
Head coach
CaptainRay Murphy
Home stadiumMichie Stadium
Seasons
← 1940
1942 →
1941 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 8 Duquesne     8 0 0
Thiel     7 0 0
Saint Francis (PA)     6 0 1
No. 6 Fordham     8 1 0
Rochester     6 1 0
Trinity (CT)     6 1 0
Wagner     5 1 0
Franklin & Marshall     5 1 1
Penn State     7 2 0
Temple     7 2 0
Coast Guard     6 2 0
Norwich     6 2 0
Hofstra     5 2 0
Boston College     7 3 0
Syracuse     5 2 1
Bucknell     6 3 0
Drexel     4 2 1
Boston University     5 3 0
La Salle     5 3 0
Tufts     5 3 0
Army     5 3 1
CCNY     4 4 0
Villanova     4 4 0
Manhattan     4 4 1
Holy Cross     4 4 2
Colgate     3 3 2
Providence     3 3 2
Buffalo     3 4 1
Massachusetts State     3 4 1
Pittsburgh     3 6 0
Vermont     2 6 0
NYU     2 7 0
Carnegie Tech     1 7 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The season represented a four-game improvement on the prior year's record of 1–7–1. Army opened with four wins, then played a scoreless tie with undefeated Notre Dame at Yankee Stadium. The eleventh-ranked Cadets then lost on the road in consecutive weeks to Harvard and Penn. In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Midshipmen won for the third straight year.

Army halfback Hank Mazur was selected by Life magazine as a third-team player on the All-America team. Mazur was also selected by the Associated Press as a second-team player on the 1941 All-Eastern football team.

Army was ranked at No. 45 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.

Schedule

DateOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 4The CitadelW 19–67,000
October 11VMI
  • Michie Stadium
  • West Point, NY
W 27–207,000
October 18at YaleW 20–756,000
October 25Columbia
  • Michie Stadium
  • West Point, NY
W 13–028,000
November 1vs. No. 6 Notre DameNo. 14T 0–076,000
November 8at HarvardNo. 11L 6–2053,000
November 15at PennNo. 19L 7–1470,000
November 22West Virginia
  • Michie Stadium
  • West Point, NY
W 7–625,000
November 29vs. No. 11 NavyL 6–1498,924
  • Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

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