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
  1905
1907  
1906 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
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 20at Western University of Pennsylvania W 22–05,000 [2]
October 27at Penn W 24–620,000 [3]
November 32:30 p.m.vs. Syracuse W 9–48,000 [4]
November 10at Harvard L 0–5
November 17at Minnesota W 17–020,000
November 22at Vanderbilt L 0–4 8,000 [5]
November 243:00 p.m.at Cincinnati W 18–05,000 [6] [7]
November 29vs. Virginia
W 18–177,000 [8] [9]

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See also

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. "How the Forward Pass Saved Football HISTORY".
  4. "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 .
  5. "Indians lose to Vanderbilt". The Detroit Free Press. November 23, 1906. Retrieved May 5, 2024 via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Indian—And Pale Face To Clash—Upon the Gridiron at League Park This Afternoon". The Cincinnati Enquirer . Cincinnati, Ohio. November 24, 1906. p. 3. Retrieved March 12, 2025 via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  7. "Scalped,—But Not Annihilated—Carlisle Downed All-Star Local Eleven, 18 To 0". The Cincinnati Enquirer . Cincinnati, Ohio. November 25, 1906. p. 11. Retrieved March 12, 2025 via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  8. "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 .
  9. "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 .
  10. "1906 Carlisle Indian Schedule and Results".