1906 Carlisle Indians football team

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1906 Carlisle Indians football
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ConferenceIndependent
Record9–3
Head coach
Captain Albert Exendine
Home stadiumIndian Field
Seasons
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1907  →
1906 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton  – 9 –0 –1
Yale  – 9 –0 –1
Haverford  – 7 –0 –2
Harvard  – 10 –1 –0
Cornell  – 8 –1 –2
Lafayette  – 8 –1 –1
Penn State  – 8 –1 –1
Washington & Jefferson  – 9 –2 –0
Swarthmore  – 7 –2 –0
Drexel  – 6 –2 –0
Tufts  – 6 –2 –0
Penn  – 7 –2 –3
Carlisle  – 9 –3 –0
Brown  – 6 –3 –0
Rutgers  – 5 –2 –2
Dartmouth  – 6 –3 –1
Syracuse  – 6 –3 –0
Colgate  – 4 –2 –2
Vermont  – 5 –4 –0
Fordham  – 5 –3 –0
Western U. of Penn.  – 6 –4 –0
Holy Cross  – 4 –3 –1
Amherst  – 3 –3 –1
Lehigh  – 5 –5 –1
Bucknell  – 3 –4 –1
Dickinson  – 3 –4 –2
Carnegie Tech  – 2 –3 –2
Army  – 3 –5 –1
Frankin & Marshall  – 3 –5 –1
Wesleyan  – 2 –4 –1
New Hampshire  – 2 –5 –1
Villanova  – 3 –7 –0
Springfield Training School  – 1 –5 –3
NYU  – 0 –4 –0

The 1906 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, as an independent during the 1906 college football season.

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Led by Bemus Pierce in his first and only season as head coach, the Indians compiled a record of 9–3 and outscored opponents 244 to 40. Vanderbilt had one of the first big upsets from the south when it defeated Carlisle 4 to 0. [1] 1906 was the first season with a legal forward pass.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22 Villanova
W 6–0
September 29 Albright
  • Indian Field
  • Carlisle, PA
W 82–0
October 3 Susquehanna
  • Indian Field
  • Carlisle, PA
W 48–0
October 6vs. Penn State Williamsport, PA L 0–4
October 13at Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH W 18–0
October 20at Western University of Pennsylvania
W 22–05,000 [2]
October 27at Penn
W 24–6
November 32:30 p.m.vs. Syracuse
W 9–48,000 [3]
November 10at Harvard
L 0–5
November 17at Minnesota
W 17–020,000
November 22at Vanderbilt
L 0–4 8,000
November 29vs. Virginia
W 18–177,000 [4] [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Brown Calls Vanderbilt '06 Best Eleven South Ever Had". Atlanta Constitution. February 19, 1911. p. 52. Retrieved March 8, 2015– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  2. ↑ "WUP Team Humiliated By Carlisle Indians". Pittsburgh Daily Post. October 21, 1906. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "Carlisle Meets Syracuse Today". Buffalo Courier . Buffalo, New York. November 3, 1906. p. 10. Retrieved April 29, 2021– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  4. ↑ "Virginia's Great Game". The Washington Post . Washington, D.C. November 30, 1906. p. 9. Retrieved April 29, 2021– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  5. ↑ "Carlisle Defeats Virginia". The Lexington Herald . Lexington, Kentucky. November 30, 1906. p. 6. Retrieved April 29, 2021– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  6. ↑ "1906 Carlisle Indian Schedule and Results".


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