1926_Navy_Midshipmen_football_team

1926 Navy Midshipmen football
1926 Navy Midshipmen football
National champion (Boand, Houlgate)
Conference	Independent
Record	9–0–1
Head coach	Bill Ingram (1st season);
Captain	Frank Wickhorst
Home stadium	Thompson Stadium
	Seasons ← 1925 1927 →

1926 Navy Midshipmen football team

American college football season

The 1926 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy in the 1926 college football season. The Midshipmen were coached by Bill Ingram in his first year and finished the season undefeated with a record of nine wins, zero losses and one tie (9–0–1). Although Alabama and Stanford have been named the 1926 national champion by most selectors, the 1926 Navy team was retroactively named as the national champion under Boand and Houlgate Systems.^[1] The team was ranked No. 2 in the nation in the Dickinson System ratings released in December 1926.^[2]

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[NCAA-1] [1]
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 13, 2016.

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"Stanford Eleven Adjudged Best: Navy Ranks Second Under Dickinson System of Rating Teams". The Morning Post. Camden, N.J. December 17, 1926. p. 23 – via Newspapers.com.

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"Navy Gridders Defeat Drake: Iowa Invaders Turned Back By Score of 24-To-7". The Baltimore Sun. October 3, 1926. p. Sports 1 – via Newspapers.com.

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W. O. McGeehan (October 17, 1926). "Navy Team Beats Princeton: Middies Make Strong Finish". The Baltimore Sun. pp. Sports 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.

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"Lloyd Runs Length Of Field To Bring Victory To Middies". The Baltimore Sun. October 24, 1926. p. II-2 – via Newspapers.com.

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DeLassus, David. "Navy Yearly Results: 1925–1929". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on July 9, 2013. Retrieved March 27, 2013.

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Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 2	Purdue	Thompson Stadium Annapolis, MD	W 17–13
October 9	Drake	Thompson Stadium Annapolis, MD	W 24–7		^[3]
October 9	Richmond	Thompson Stadium Annapolis, MD	W 26–0
October 16	at Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	W 27–13		^[4]
October 23	Colgate	Thompson Stadium Annapolis, MD	W 13–7	15,000	^[5]
October 30	Michigan	Municipal Stadium Baltimore, MD	W 10–0	80,000
November 6	West Virginia Wesleyan	Thompson Stadium Annapolis, MD	W 53–7
November 13	Georgetown	Thompson Stadium Annapolis, MD	W 10–7
November 20	Loyola (MD)	Thompson Stadium Annapolis, MD	W 35–13
November 27	vs. Army	Soldier Field Chicago, IL (Army–Navy Game)	T 21–21

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v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Loyola (LA)		–		10	–	0	–	0
Miami (FL)		–		8	–	0	–	0
Howard		–		7	–	0	–	0
Delaware State		–		1	–	0	–	0
No. 2 Navy		–		9	–	0	–	1
Wesley		–		6	–	1	–	0
Texas Tech		–		6	–	1	–	3
Davidson		–		7	–	2	–	1
Georgetown		–		7	–	2	–	1
William & Mary		–		7	–	3	–	0
Hampden–Sydney		–		5	–	2	–	3
George Washington		–		5	–	4	–	0
Middle Tennessee State Teachers		–		4	–	2	–	1
Spring Hill		–		3	–	2	–	1
Texas A&I		–		4	–	3	–	0
Wake Forest		–		5	–	4	–	1
Texas Mines		–		3	–	4	–	0
Mississippi State Teachers		–		3	–	4	–	1
Tennessee Docs		–		3	–	5	–	1
Catholic University		–		3	–	5	–	0
Delaware		–		3	–	5	–	0
East Tennessee State Teachers		–		2	–	4	–	1
Duke		–		3	–	6	–	0
Georgia Normal		–		1	–	3	–	0
Richmond		–		2	–	7	–	0
Harding		–		1	–	5	–	0
West Tennessee State Teachers		–		1	–	8	–	0

Rankings from Dickinson System