1903 Amherst football team

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1903 Amherst football
ConferenceIndependent
1903 record7–3
Head coach
Home stadium Pratt Field
Seasons
 1902
1904 
1903 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Princeton     1100
Yale     1110
Columbia     910
Dartmouth     910
Geneva     910
Holy Cross     820
Temple     410
Lehigh     921
Harvard     930
Penn     930
Army     621
Carlisle     621
Amherst     730
Lafayette     730
Cornell     631
Colgate     421
Penn State     530
Brown     541
Syracuse     540
Fordham     110
Frankin & Marshall     551
Rutgers     441
Villanova     220
Bucknell     450
Tufts     580
Pittsburgh College     350
Wesleyan     361
NYU     250
New Hampshire     261
Western U. Penn.     181

The 1903 Amherst football team represented Amherst College during the 1903 college football season. [1] The team defeated Harvard.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 26Union (NY)W 16–0
September 30at BowdoinW 23–0
October 10at HarvardW 5–0
October 14TrinityW 18–0
October 17at ColumbiaL 0–12
October 24at Holy CrossL 0–36
October 31ColbyW 23–0
November 7DartmouthL 0–18
November 21at MassachusettsW 11–6
November 26WillistonW 6–0

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