1917 Lafayette football team

1917 Lafayette football
Conference	Independent
Record	3–5
Head coach	Punk Berryman (1st season)
Captain	Henry Lehr, Grant Scott
Home stadium	March Field
Seasons ←  1916 1918  →

1917 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Pittsburgh			–					10	–	0	–	0
Williams			–					7	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					3	–	0	–	0
Princeton			–					2	–	0	–	0
Syracuse			–					8	–	1	–	1
Army			–					7	–	1	–	0
Rutgers			–					7	–	1	–	1
Penn			–					9	–	2	–	0
Brown			–					8	–	2	–	0
Fordham			–					7	–	2	–	0
Lehigh			–					7	–	2	–	0
Boston College			–					6	–	2	–	0
Swarthmore			–					6	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					7	–	3	–	0
Colgate			–					4	–	2	–	0
Harvard			–					3	–	1	–	3
New Hampshire			–					3	–	2	–	2
Dartmouth			–					5	–	3	–	0
Geneva			–					5	–	3	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	4	–	0
Buffalo			–					4	–	4	–	0
NYU			–					2	–	2	–	3
Tufts			–					3	–	3	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					2	–	3	–	1
Bucknell			–					3	–	5	–	1
Lafayette			–					3	–	5	–	0
Holy Cross			–					3	–	4	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					2	–	4	–	2
Carlisle			–					3	–	6	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	4	–	0
Delaware			–					2	–	5	–	0
Cornell			–					3	–	6	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					2	–	6	–	0
Villanova			–					0	–	3	–	2
Temple			–					0	–	6	–	1

The 1917 Lafayette football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1917 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Punk Berryman, the team compiled a 3–5 record. ^[1] Henry Lehr and Grant Scott were the team captains. ^[2] The team played its home games at March Field in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
October 6	U.S. Ambulance Corps	March Field Easton, PA	W 20–0
October 13	Ursinus	March Field Easton, PA	W 12–6
October 20	Rutgers	March Field Easton, PA	L 7–33
October 27	Muhlenberg	March Field Easton, PA	L 0–6
November 3	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–27
November 10	at Swarthmore	Swarthmore, PA	L 0–56	[3]
November 17	Albright	March Field Easton, PA	W 42–0
November 24	Lehigh	Taylor Stadium Bethlehem, PA (rivalry)	L 0–17

References

1. "2018 Lafayette Football Media Guide" (PDF). Lafayette University. p. 126. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
2. "Football Captains". Lafayette University. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
3. "Lafayette Jarred by Little Quakers". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 11, 1917. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.