1917 Camp Devens football team

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1917 Camp Devens football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–3–2
Head coach
Seasons
1918  
1917 military service football records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Mare Island Marines   8 0 0
Mineola Aviation Station   3 0 0
Camp Dix   2 0 0
Camp Jackson   2 0 1
Allentown Ambulance Corps   5 1 0
Camp Custer   5 1 0
Camp Gordon   5 1 0
Charlestown Navy Yard   3 1 0
Camp Funston   7 3 0
Camp Lewis   5 2 1
Newport Naval Reserves   5 2 1
Camp Grant   3 1 0
Camp Taylor   2 1 0
Great Lakes Navy   4 3 0
Camp Devens   1 3 2
Camp Meade   1 2 0
League Island Marines   1 3 0
Camp Upton   0 1 0

The 1917 Camp Devens football team was an American football team that represented the United States Army's 76th Infantry Division stationed at Camp Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts, during the 1917 fall football season.

The team had two players named to the 1917 All-Service football team: halfback Wayland Minot (Walter Camp, 1st team); and end C. A. Coolidge (Paul Purman, 1st team).

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
November 3at Charlestown Navy Yard L 0–2820,000 [2]
November 10at Harvard
T 0–0400 [3]
November 14at Brown
L 0–40 [4]
November 17vs. Camp Dix
L 0–19 [5]
November 24 Camp Upton W 7–0 [6]
November 29 Newport Naval Reserves T 0–0 [7]

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References

  1. "Edward Felix Keenan". washingtoncollegesports.com. Washington College.
  2. "Shutout for Camp Devens". The Boston Globe. November 4, 1917. p. 15 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Harvard, Within Scoring Distance, Misses Chances". The Boston Globe. November 11, 1917. p. 15 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Brown Rolls Back Engineers, 40 to 0". The Boston Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. November 15, 1917. p. 6. Retrieved September 23, 2021 via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  5. "Camp Dix All Star Shut Out Devens, 19-0". The Boston Globe. November 18, 1917. p. 14 via Newspapers.com.
  6. Fred Hawthorne (November 25, 1917). "Devens Eleven Victor in Close Football Game: Haughton Soldiers Defeat Camp Upton Boys by Score of 7 to 0". New York Tribune. p. 19 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Black's Stars Tie With Camp Devens". The Sun. November 30, 1917. p. 12.