- Source: 1985 Army Cadets football team
The 1985 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season as an independent. The team was led by head coach Jim Young, in his third year, and played their home games at Michie Stadium in West Point, New York. They finished the season with a record of nine wins and three losses (9–3 overall), and with a victory against Illinois in the Peach Bowl. Starting off with wins in each of their first five games, the Cadets were ranked by the AP Poll at 19th prior to the game against Notre Dame. It was the first time Army was ranked in 23 years; Army would not be ranked in an AP Poll again until 1996. The Cadets offense scored 396 points, while the defense allowed 232 points.
Schedule
Game summaries
= Western Michigan
=Clarence Jones 110 rush yards
= Rutgers
== At Penn
== Yale
=Most points Army scored since 1958
Craig Stopa's 53-yard field goal in the second quarter was a school record
Tory Crawford replaced injured Rob Healy (cracked ribs)
= At Boston College
=Tory Crawford (first start) 131 rush yards, three TDs [ECAC Offensive Player of the Week]
Clarence Jones 103 rush yards
= At Notre Dame
== Colgate
=Tory Crawford (off the bench) 136 rush yards
= Holy Cross
=Tory Crawford 134 rush yards, 2 TDs [ECAC Offensive Player of the Week]
= At Air Force
== Memphis State
== vs Navy
=With Vice President and former Navy pilot George Bush in attendance, Napoleon McCallum rushed for 217 yards, the second-most rushing yards by a Navy player against Army, and broke the NCAA single-season all-purpose yardage record of Pitt's Tony Dorsett.