1897 Lafayette football team

1897 Lafayette football
Conference	Independent
Record	9–2–1
Head coach	Parke H. Davis (3rd season)
Captain	Charles Rinehart
Home stadium	March Field
Seasons ←  1896 1898  →

1897 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	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	–	5	–	0
Western Univ. Penn.			–					1	–	3	–	0

The 1897 Lafayette football team represented Lafayette College in the 1897 college football season. Lafayette shut out eight opponents and finished with a 9–2–1 record in their third year under head coach Parke H. Davis. Significant games included victories over 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

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 27	at Bloomsburg Normal	Bloomsburg, PA	W 14–0
September 28	at Wyoming Seminary	Kingston, PA	W 26–0
October 2	Penn State	March Field Easton, PA	W 24–0
October 6	at Franklin & Marshall	Lancaster, PA	W 8–0
October 9	Temperance A.C.	March Field Easton, PA	W 64–0
October 16	Cornell	March Field Easton, PA	T 4–4
October 23	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–46	18,000	[5] [6] [7] [8]
October 30	Lehigh	March Field Easton, PA (rivalry)	W 34–0
November 6	at Princeton	University Field Princeton, NJ	L 0–57	4,500	[9]
November 13	Dickinson	March Field Easton, PA	W 19–0
November 20	Wesleyan	March Field Easton, PA	W 41–6
November 25	at Lehigh	Bethlehem, PA	W 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.
5. "Pennsylvania Lays Out Lafayette Completely". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 24, 1897. p. 1. Retrieved March 22, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
6. "Pennsylvania Lays Out Lafayette (continued)". The Philadelphia Inquirer . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 24, 1897. p. 8. Retrieved March 22, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
7. "Great Day For Penn". The Times . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 24, 1897. p. 1. Retrieved March 22, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
8. "Great Day For Penn (continued)". The Times . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 24, 1897. p. 2. Retrieved March 22, 2022– via Newspapers.com .
9. "Tigers Scored Almost at Will: Administer an Overwhelming Defeat to the Lafayette Team". The Philadelphia Times. November 7, 1897. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.