1916 Colgate football team

1916 Colgate football
Conference	Independent
Record	8–1
Head coach	Laurence Bankart (5th season)
Captain	Steamer Horning
Home stadium	Whitnall Field
Seasons ←  1915 1917  →

1916 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Army			–					9	–	0	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					8	–	0	–	0
Brown			–					8	–	1	–	0
Colgate			–					8	–	1	–	0
Yale			–					8	–	1	–	0
Fordham			–					6	–	1	–	1
Swarthmore			–					6	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					8	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					8	–	2	–	0
Boston College			–					6	–	2	–	0
Cornell			–					6	–	2	–	0
Princeton			–					6	–	2	–	0
Lehigh			–					6	–	2	–	1
Dartmouth			–					5	–	2	–	2
Harvard			–					7	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					7	–	3	–	1
Temple			–					3	–	1	–	2
Tufts			–					5	–	3	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					4	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					3	–	2	–	2
NYU			–					4	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	4	–	0
Holy Cross			–					4	–	5	–	0
Vermont			–					4	–	5	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					3	–	4	–	1
New Hampshire			–					3	–	5	–	2
Geneva			–					2	–	5	–	2
Carlisle			–					1	–	3	–	1
Lafayette			–					2	–	6	–	1
Bucknell			–					3	–	9	–	0
Columbia			–					1	–	5	–	2
Franklin & Marshall			–					1	–	7	–	0
Villanova			–					1	–	8	–	0

The 1916 Colgate football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1916 college football season. In its fifth and final season under head coach Laurence Bankart, the team compiled an 8–1 record, shut out five of its nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 218 to 30. ^{[1] [2]}

Three Colgate players were consensus first-team players on the 1916 All-America team: ^[3]

• Quarterback Ockie Anderson. Nationally syndicated sports writer Tommy Clark not only chose Anderson as his first-team All-American quarterback but also named him captain of the All-American team. Clark explained his selection of Anderson as follows: "He is an accurate forward passer, and his passing gave Colgate the 13-0 victory over the Army last season. He is a good broken-field runner, and his running back of punts has been a feature of several games this year. He feeds his backs in faultless style, the result being that Colgate did not fumble at Yale, only once against Illinois, and that on a direct pass, and not once against Syracuse and Brown. Anderson has played against some of the best quarterbacks of the year, Macomber of Illinois, Smith of Yale, and Meehan of Syracuse. None of them outplayed him." ^[4] Anderson went on to become one of the leading scorers in the first season of the NFL.
• Tackle Steamer Horning. Horning was also selected as the captain of the 1916 Colgate team. ^[5] Horning later became the first Detroit quarterback in the 1920 NFL season and won All-NFL honors in 1922 and 1923.
• Tackle Belford West. West was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1954 ^[6] and Colgate's athletic hall of honor in 1979. ^[7] Reflecting on West's college career in 1928, John Heisman wrote, "His co-ordination was complete, his courage supreme, his sportsmanship incontestable." ^[8]

In addition, guards Monroe Good and Mason Barton received second-team All-America honors from the United Press (UP) and International News Service (INS), respectively. ^{[9] [10]}

The team played its home games on Whitnall Field in Hamilton, New York.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 30	Susquehanna	Hamilton, NY	W 34–0
October 7	Maine	Utica, NY	W 28–0
October 14	at Illinois	Illinois Field Champaign, IL	W 15–3
October 21	at Rhode Island State	Hamilton, NY	W 33–0	[11]
October 28	Springfield	Hamilton, NY	W 27–14
November 4	at Yale	Yale Bowl New Haven, CT	L 3–7	[12]
November 11	Rochester	Hamilton, NY	W 35–6
November 18	at Syracuse	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY (rivalry)	W 15–0
November 25	at Brown	Andrews Field Providence, RI	W 28–0

References

1. "1916 Colgate Raiders Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
2. "2008 Colgate Football Media Guide" (PDF). Colgate University. 2008. p. 126. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 23, 2023. Retrieved June 6, 2020– via Wayback Machine.
3. "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 7. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
4. Tommy Clark (December 7, 1916). "All-American Football Team For Season of 1916". Warren Evening Mirror.
5. "Horning Chosen Colgate Captain". Boston Daily Globe. December 8, 1915. p. 8.
6. "Belford West (1954)". footballfoundation.org. Retrieved June 27, 2023.
7. "D. Belford West". colgateathletics.com. Retrieved June 27, 2023.
8. Heisman, John (November 16, 1928). "Heisman's Hundred in Hall of Football Fame: David Belford West". The Philadelphia Inquirer . p. 19. Retrieved June 27, 2023– via newspapers.com.
9. H.C. Hamilton (December 3, 1916). "West Men on United Press All-American". Des Moines Daily News.
10. Jack Velock, ed. (December 4, 1916). "Have Hard Job Selecting All-American Team". Lima Times Democrat.
11. "Colgate Mows Down Rhode Island State". The Sun. October 22, 1916. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
12. "Yale Defeats Colgate 7 to 3". Boston Post. November 5, 1916. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.