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1897 Colgate football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–2–1
Head coach
CaptainWalter Cramp
Seasons
←  1896
1898 →
1897 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn     15 0 0
Princeton     10 1 0
Washington & Jefferson     10 1 0
Yale     9 0 2
Buffalo     9 1 0
Harvard     10 1 1
Army     6 1 1
Vermont     3 0 2
Lafayette     9 2 1
Drexel     6 2 1
Colgate     5 2 1
Dickinson     7 3 2
Swarthmore     7 3 2
Fordham     2 1 1
Cornell     5 3 1
Syracuse     5 3 1
Brown     7 4 0
Carlisle     6 4 0
Boston College     4 3 0
Holy Cross     4 3 1
Bucknell     3 3 1
NYU     3 3 0
Temple     3 3 0
Trinity (CT)     4 4 1
Wesleyan     6 6 0
Tufts     6 7 0
Geneva     3 4 1
Pittsburgh College     3 5 2
Villanova     3 5 1
Penn State     3 6 0
Amherst     2 6 2
Frankin & Marshall     2 6 2
Lehigh     3 7 0
New Hampshire     2 5 0
Rutgers     2 6 0
Western Univ. Penn.     1 3 0

The 1897 Colgate football team represented Colgate University in the 1897 college football season. The team captain for the 1897 season was Walter Cramp. [1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
September 25at Cornell Ithaca, NY ( rivalry)L 0–6
October 9 St. John's Military Academy Hamilton, NYW 6–0
October 16 SyracuseHamilton, NY ( rivalry)T 6–6
October 30at Williams Williamstown, MAW 18–0
November 3at Hobart Auburn, NYW 18–0
Union (NY)Hamilton, NYW 6–0
November 13at Hamilton Utica, NYW 12–6
November 25at Rochester Rochester, NYL 0–8

[2]

References

  1. ^ "Reference at gocolgateraiders.com.s3.amazonaws.com" (PDF).
  2. ^ "1897 Colgate Game-by-Game Records". Archived from the original on January 8, 2017. Retrieved January 7, 2017., College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved January 7, 2017.