Trinity (CT) at Army
Saturday, October 10, 1908 Share
Army beat Trinity (CT) 33–0. It was their 10th meeting; after it, Army led the series 10–0.
FinalHigh 62°F, low 41°F
In the newspapers

New-York tribune, October 11, 1908, page 11
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ARMY SCORES At WILL. Dean Plays Spectacular Game against Trinity at Vest Point. West Point \. Y. Oct I0.-Trinity put up a weak game today against the Cadets. who charged through them for touchdown after touchdown. the final score being SO TO 0. Taylor scored the first touchdown after Trinity had held for downs tho 1-yard line and punted from behind the goal line TO the 40-yard mark the Army using straight football for q score. Philoon blocked Trinitys kick and Dean scored again shortly after with place kick from the 35-yard mark IN the second half Trinity’s defence weakened greatly, and the Cadets rapidly placed substitutes in the game until entire sub team playing, when the game ended with the ball in the Army’s possession Trinity’s / yard mark. Dean played a great game for the Army. and his spectacular 40-yard run back OF punt 10 a touch down brought the crowd 10 its feet MRxson also did q little sensational work and the brilliant the Trinity side. The lineup follows:

The Washington times, Washington [D.C.], October 11, 1908, page 18
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CADETS VANQUESH TRINITY EASILY West Point Runs Up Big Score in Final Practice Game. WEST POINT, N Y, Oct IO.-The Army won its last game today prior to the big game with Yale by defeating Trinity, 80 to 0. The visitors never crossed the Army’s S5-yard line. In the first half West Point scored a touchdown, but failed at goal Dean kicked a place kick from the 25-yard line. The half ended with the score to 0. In the second half Trinity weakened, and the soldiers scored at will

The Birmingham age-herald, October 11, 1908, page 11 (results column)
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Other Football Results. At Nashville: Vanderbilt Reserves, IT; Bowen O.. At Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg 27; Bethany O. At Princeton: Princeton, O. Lafayette. O. At Groton, Mass: Harvard freshmen 6; Groton school, o. At Exeter: Princeton freshmen. 12: Phillips-Exeter, 10. At Annapolis; Naval academy, 22 Dick inson, O. At Washington: George Washington university. 2l; Eastern college, (Front Royal, Va), O. At Lexington, Va: Virginia Military institute, 40; Hampden- Sidney O. At Washington: Georgetown university. 22; Baltimore Medics. 4. At Newport News. Va: Washington and Lee, O; University of North Carolina, O. At West Point, N. Y. West Point 33: Trinity, 0. At Andover. Mass. Yale freshmen, 5; Phillips-Andover o. At Amherst Mass: Amherst, O; Univer- sity of Vermont, o. At Providence, R. l.: Brown, 12; Bow doin, o. At Hamilton, N. r.. Colgate. N; Ho-

The mirror, Stillwater, Minn., October 15, 1908, page 1 (results column)
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FOOTBALL SCORES. The following are the scores OF q few of the football games which took place last Saturday: Minnesota, Is; Ames, 10. Nebraska, 20; Grinnell, S. Wisconsin. IS; Lawrence, 0. Chicago, %; Indiana, 6. Carlisle, IL; Syracuse, O. Princeton, O; Lafayette, O. Harvard, 10; Williams, 0. Yale, IS; Holy Cross, 0. West Point, 33; Trinity, 0. Cornell, %; Oberlin, 10.
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.
Before kickoff
Our ratings going in
Our ratings (scores only)
Army 91% to win. Elo’s favorite won.
The series
Every Trinity (CT)–Army gameArmy leads 13–0 in 13 meetings, counting the three since this game.
| 1916 | Army 53, Trinity (CT) 0 | |
| 1910 | Army 17, Trinity (CT) 0 | |
| 1909 | Army 17, Trinity (CT) 6 | |
| 1908 | Army 33, Trinity (CT) 0 | |
| 1907 | Army 12, Trinity (CT) 0 | |
| 1906 | Army 24, Trinity (CT) 0 |
Around this game
Trinity (CT)
- Next gameat CornellNov. 21, 1908
- SeasonTrinity (CT) in 1908
- ProgramTrinity (CT) history and records
Army
- Next gamevs. YaleOct. 17, 1908
- SeasonArmy in 1908
- ProgramArmy history and records
