1897 Arkansas Industrial Cardinals football team

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1897
Arkansas Industrial Cardinals football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–0–1
Head coach
CaptainHerbert Fishback
Seasons
1897 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Oklahoma     2 0 0
Arkansas     2 0 1
Navy     8 1 0
Virginia     6 2 1
Add-Ran     3 1 0
Washington and Lee     3 1 0
VPI     5 2 0
North Carolina     7 3 0
VMI     3 2 0
Guilford     2 1 0
West Virginia     5 4 1
Davidson
    1 1 0
Georgia Tech     1 1 0
Columbian     4 5 1
Richmond     3 5 0
North Carolina A&M     1 2 0
Texas A&M     1 2 0
Delaware
    1 5 1
William & Mary     0 1 0
Marshall     0 3 0
South Carolina     0 3 0

The 1897 Arkansas Industrial Cardinals football team represented the

Drury College to a 6–6 tie. On November 20, 1897, Arkansas won its first ever intercollegiate football game against Ouachita College, a liberal arts college in Arkadelphia, Arkansas
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The captains of the 1897 team were H. Y. Fishback and E. G. Martin.

Georgia School of Technology
(Georgia Tech) in 1896 and joined the faculty at Arkansas Industrial as an instructor of mechanical engineering. He served as the football team's trainer in the fall of 1896 and took over as the coach in 1897.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
November 6Fort Smith High SchoolFayetteville, ARW 12–0
November 20
Drury
Fayetteville, ART 6–6[2][3]
November 25at Ouachita BaptistArkadelphia, ARW 24–0[4]

References

  1. ^ "The Cardinal" (Arkansas yearbook), 1898.
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