1908 NYU Violets football team

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1908 NYU Violets football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–3–2
Head coach
Home stadiumOhio Field
Seasons
← 1907
1909 →
1908 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn     11 0 1
Harvard     9 0 1
Cornell     7 1 1
Fordham     5 1 0
Yale     7 1 1
Dartmouth     6 1 1
Carlisle     10 2 1
Washington & Jefferson     10 2 1
Army     6 1 2
Pittsburgh     8 3 0
Lafayette     6 2 2
Princeton     5 2 3
Syracuse     6 3 1
Brown     5 3 1
Temple
    3 2 1
Colgate     4 3 0
Lehigh     4 3 0
Dickinson     5 4 0
Amherst
    3 3 2
Holy Cross     4 4 0
Penn State     5 5 0
Vermont     3 3 3
Wesleyan
    3 4 2
Springfield Training School     3 4 1
NYU     2 3 2
Frankin & Marshall     4 6 1
Bucknell
    3 5 2
Rutgers     3 5 1
Boston College     2 4 2
Carnegie Tech     3 7 0
Geneva     1 6 2
Tufts     1 6 1
Villanova     1 6 0
Drexel     0 7 0

The 1908 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1908 college football season. In their second year under head coach Herman Olcott, the team compiled a 2–3–2 record.

Schedule

Regular season

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 3St. Stephen'sW 5–0[1]
October 10Stevens
  • Ohio Field
  • Bronx, NY
L 5–6[2]
October 17at Trinity (CT)
L 4–18[3]
November 3
Wesleyan
  • Ohio Field
  • Bronx, NY
T 0–05,000[4]
November 7at
RPI
Troy, NYL 0–11[5]
November 14
Union (NY)
  • Ohio Field
  • Bronx, NY
T 5–5[6]
November 21at
Haverford
Haverford, PAW 8–5[7]

Scrimmage games

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 7Webb Academy
  • Ohio Field
  • Bronx, NY
T 0–0[8]
October 15NYU Scrubs
  • Ohio Field
  • Bronx, NY
T 0–0[9]
November 18NYU Sophomores
  • Ohio Field
  • Bronx, NY
W 10–0[10]

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