The 1918 League Island Marines football team represented the
United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combi ...
stationed at the
League Island Navy Yard in
Philadelphia
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during the
1918 college football season
The 1918 college football season was a season of college football in the United States. There was no consensus champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Michigan and Pittsburgh as national champions.
World War ...
. The team was coached by
Byron W. Dickson. A game scheduled for October 19 against
Villanova was cancelled due to
Spanish flu
The 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. The earliest documented case was ...
quarantine.
The 1919 edition of the ''Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide'' indicates that Dickson coached a Marine team that disbanded after beating
Penn on October 26, and afterward, a League Island Navy Yard team was formed, which went 6–0 beginning with a victory over
Lehigh
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on November 2.
Contemporary newspapers accounts do not appear to make a distinction between the two teams.
Schedule
References
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