1923 Bucknell Bison football team

The 1923 Bucknell Bison football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University as an independent during the 1923 college football season. In its fifth and final season under head coach Pete Reynolds, the team compiled a 4–4–1 record.[1]

1923 Bucknell Bison football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–4–1
Head coach
Home stadiumTustin Field
Seasons
← 1922
1924 →
1923 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cornell     8 0 0
Yale     8 0 0
St. John's     5 0 1
Dartmouth     8 1 0
Syracuse     8 1 0
Boston College     7 1 1
Rutgers     7 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     6 1 1
Holy Cross     8 2 0
Lafayette     6 1 2
Tufts     6 2 0
Army     6 2 1
Colgate     6 2 1
Geneva     6 2 1
Lehigh     6 2 1
NYU     6 2 1
Penn State     6 2 1
Vermont     6 3 1
Brown     6 4 0
Harvard     4 3 1
Carnegie Tech     4 3 1
Penn     5 4 0
Pittsburgh     5 4 0
Bucknell     4 4 1
Columbia     4 4 1
Duquesne     4 4 0
Princeton     3 3 1
Franklin & Marshall     3 5 1
Drexel     2 6 0
Buffalo     2 5 1
Fordham     2 7 0
Boston University     1 6 0
Villanova     0 7 1
Temple     0 5 0
CCNY     0 7 0
Springfield     0 7 0

The team played its home games at Tustin Field in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Schedule edit

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29Pittsburgh
L 0–2110,000[2][3]
October 6Alfred
  • Tustin Field
  • Lewisburg, PA
W 47–0[4]
October 13Susquehanna
  • Tustin Field
  • Lewisburg, PA
W 47–0[5]
October 20at YaleL 14–29[6][7]
November 3at MuhlenbergAllentown, PAW 14–6[8]
November 10Lehigh 
  • Tustin Field
  • Lewisburg, PA
T 7–7[9][10]
November 17at GeorgetownW 14–7[11]
November 24Allegheny
  • Tustin Field
  • Lewisburg, PA
L 7–10[12]
November 29at Dickinson
L 10–145,000[13]
  •  Homecoming

References edit

  1. ^ "2018 Bucknell Football Media Guide" (PDF). Bucknell University. p. 134.
  2. ^ "Pitt Smashes Records For Football Attendance". The Pitt Weekly. Vol. 14, no. 12. December 12, 1923. p. 7. Retrieved March 16, 2021.
  3. ^ "Bucknell Loses To Pitt 21-0". The Lewisburg Journal. October 5, 1923. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Bucknell Easily Wins From Alfred". The Lewisburg Journal. October 12, 1923. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Bucknell Bison Down Susquehanna". The Lewisburg Journal. October 19, 1923. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Dazzling Bucknell Aerial Attack Scores Twice Against Yale But Elis Win, 29 to 14". The Hartford Courant. October 21, 1923. p. IV-2 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Bucknell Scores Twice on Yale -- The Score". The Lewisburg Journal. October 26, 1923. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Bison Win Ragged Game at Muhlenberg". The Lewisburg Journal. November 9, 1923. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Lehigh Plays 7-7 Tie With Bucknell". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 11, 1923. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Bucknell and Lehigh Battle to a Tie". The Lewisburg Journal. November 16, 1923. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Bison Avenge Defeat at Georgetown's Hands". The Lewisburg Journal. November 23, 1923. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Bison in Listless Play Lose to Allegheny 10-7". The Lewisburg Journal. November 30, 1923. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Dickinson Team Defeats Bucknell by Fine Playing: Close Score, 14-10, Shows That the Game was Hard-Fought--Large Crowd Present". The Evening Sentinel. Carlisle, Pennsylvania. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.