1897 Colgate football team

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1897 Colgate football
ConferenceIndependent
1897 record5–2–1
Head coach
CaptainWalter Cramp
Seasons
  1896
1898  
1897 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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   2 3 1
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 Colgate football team represented Colgate University in the 1897 college football season. The team captain for the 1897 season was Walter Cramp. [1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 25at Cornell Ithaca, NY (rivalry)L 0–6
October 9 St. John's Military Academy Hamilton, NY W 6–0
October 16 Syracuse Hamilton, NY (rivalry)T 6–6
October 30at Williams Williamstown, MA W 18–0
November 3at Hobart Auburn, NY W 18–0
Union (NY) Hamilton, NYW 6–0
November 13at Hamilton Utica, NY W 12–6
November 25at Rochester Rochester, NY L 0–8

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References

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  2. "1897 Colgate Game-by-Game Records". Archived from the original on 2017-01-08. Retrieved 2017-01-07., College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved January 7, 2017.