Year: | 1941 |
Team: | Army Cadets |
Sport: | football |
Conference: | Independent |
Record: | 5–3–1 |
Head Coach: | Earl Blaik |
Hc Year: | 1st |
Captain: | Ray Murphy |
Stadium: | Michie Stadium |
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.[1]
The season represented a four-game improvement on the prior year's record of 1–7–1. Army opened with four wins,[2] then played a scoreless tie with undefeated Notre Dame at Yankee Stadium.[3] The eleventh-ranked Cadets then lost on the road in consecutive weeks to Harvard In the annual the Midshipmen won for the third Army halfback Hank Mazur was selected by Life magazine as a third-team player on the All-America team.[4] Mazur was also selected by the Associated Press as a second-team player on the 1941 All-Eastern football team.[5]
Army was ranked at No. 45 (out of 681 teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score System for 1941.[6]