In their fourth season under head coach Charles Dudley Daly, the Cadets compiled a 9–0 record and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 235 to 36.
[1] In the annual Army–Navy Game, the Cadets defeated the Midshipmen 15 to 7.
[2] The 1916 Army team was selected retroactively as the 1916 national champion by Parke H.
[3] Fullback Elmer Oliphant from the 1916 Army team was a consensus first-team All-American and was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955.
[4][5] Center John McEwan received second-team honors from Walter Camp,[6] the United Press,[7] the International News Service,[8] and Walter Eckersall.