The 1974 Army Cadets football team represented the
United States Military Academy
The United States Military Academy (USMA), also known metonymically as West Point or simply as Army, is a United States service academy in West Point, New York. It was originally established as a fort, since it sits on strategic high groun ...
in the
1974 NCAA Division I football season
The 1974 NCAA Division I football season finished with two national champions. The Associated Press (AP) writers' poll ranked the University of Oklahoma, which was on probation and barred by the NCAA from postseason play, No. 1 at season's end. ...
. In their first year under head coach
Homer Smith, the Cadets compiled a 3–8 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 306 to 156. In the annual
Army–Navy Game, the Cadets lost to the
Midshipmen by a 19 to 0 score.
No Army players were selected as first-team players on the
1974 College Football All-America Team
The 1974 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1974. The National Collegiate Athletic Asso ...
.
Schedule
Personnel
*Not listed (missing number/class/position): Gary Smithey
Season summary
Lafayette
vs Navy
75th meeting; President
Gerald Ford in attendance
References
Army
An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...
Army Black Knights football seasons
Army Cadets football
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