1897 Lafayette football team

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1897
Lafayette football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–2–1
Head coach
CaptainCharles Rinehart
Home stadiumMarch Field
Seasons
1897 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn     15 0 0
Princeton     10 1 0
Washington & Jefferson     10 1 0
Yale     9 0 2
Buffalo     9 1 0
Harvard     10 1 1
Army     6 1 1
Vermont     3 0 2
Lafayette     9 2 1
Drexel     6 2 1
Colgate     5 2 1
Dickinson     7 3 2
Swarthmore     7 3 2
Fordham
    2 1 1
Cornell     5 3 1
Syracuse     5 3 1
Brown     7 4 0
Carlisle     6 4 0
Boston College     4 3 0
Holy Cross     4 3 1
Bucknell
    3 3 1
NYU     3 3 0
Temple
    3 3 0
Trinity (CT)     4 4 1
Wesleyan
    6 6 0
Tufts     6 7 0
Geneva     3 4 1
Pittsburgh College     3 5 2
Villanova     3 5 1
Penn State     3 6 0
Amherst
    2 6 2
Frankin & Marshall
    2 6 2
Lehigh     3 7 0
New Hampshire     2 5 0
Rutgers     2 6 0
Western Univ. Penn.     1 3 0

The 1897 Lafayette football team represented

Penn State (24–0) and Lehigh (34–0 and 22–0), a 4–4 tie with Cornell, and losses to Princeton (0–57) and Penn (0–46). The 1895 Lafayette team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 256 to 113.[1][2]

Three Lafayette players received recognition on the 1897 College Football All-America Team. They are: guard Charles Rinehart (Walter Camp, 2nd team, Outing magazine, 1st team); halfback George B. Walbridge (Camp, 3rd team); and fullback Edward G. Bray (Outing, 2nd team).[3][4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27at
Bloomsburg Normal
Bloomsburg, PAW 14–0
September 28at Wyoming SeminaryKingston, PAW 26–0
October 2Penn State
W 24–0
October 6at
Franklin & Marshall
Lancaster, PAW 8–0
October 9Temperance A.C.
  • March Field
  • Easton, PA
W 64–0
October 16Cornell
  • March Field
  • Easton, PA
T 4–4
October 23at PennL 0–4618,000[5][6][7][8]
October 30Lehigh
W 34–0
November 6at PrincetonL 0–574,500[9]
November 13Dickinson
  • March Field
  • Easton, PA
W 19–0
November 20
Wesleyan
  • March Field
  • Easton, PA
W 41–6
November 25at LehighBethlehem, PAW 22–0

References

  1. ^ "1897 Lafayette Leopards Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  2. ^ "Lafayette Yearly Results (1895-1899)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  3. ^ "Camp's Champion Eleven: Chamberlin, Brown, De Saulles and Hall of Yale All-American Leaders". New Haven Evening Register. December 8, 1897.
  4. ^ "A Brief Review of the Football Season" (PDF). The Outing Magazine. January 1898.
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