1917 Lafayette football team

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.

1917 Lafayette football
ConferenceIndependent
Record3–5
Head coach
CaptainHenry Lehr, Grant Scott
Home stadiumMarch Field
Seasons
← 1916
1918 →
1917 Eastern college football independents records
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

Schedule edit

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 6U.S. Ambulance Corps
W 20–0
October 13Ursinus
  • March Field
  • Easton, PA
W 12–6
October 20Rutgers
  • March Field
  • Easton, PA
L 7–33
October 27Muhlenberg
  • March Field
  • Easton, PA
L 0–6
November 3at PennL 0–27
November 10at SwarthmoreSwarthmore, PAL 0–56[3]
November 17Albright
  • March Field
  • Easton, PA
W 42–0
November 24LehighL 0–17

References edit

  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.