he football history lesson has returned! When we left off, our study had reached the 1917 season. We focused mainly on the legendary John Heisman. This edition will zip the reader back to the year of 1918 and the football developments of that season.

United States involvement in the "Great War" was imminent. The arguments of the isolationists were starting to be drowned out by the cries of America’s European friends (the Allied Powers: France, Russia, the British Empire, Italy) who were battling the Central Powers (Austria-Hungary, the German Empire, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire). The U.S. Government saw the writing on the wall and was preparing the nation for war.

Many schools and young men were doing their part in preparation as well, and many schools, including Cornell and Yale, did not field a football team in 1918 specificially because of the conflict. The Army-Navy game was cancelled that year. Army played only one game that season, a 20-0 romp over Mitchell Field.

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