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1897 Trinity Bantams football team

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1897 Trinity Bantams football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–4–1
Head coach
CaptainA. S. Woodle
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 5 0
Western Univ. Penn.     1 3 0

The 1897 Trinity Bantams football team represented the Trinity College during the 1897 college football season.[1] The team was led by first-year head coach Everett J. Lake. A. S. Woodle was captain.

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29Yale
L 10–0800[2]
October 2at ArmyL 6–38
October 9MassachusettsHartford, CTW 26–5
October 16HamiltonHartford, CTW 16–0
October 24at NYUW 34–0[3]
October 30at AmherstAmherst, MAW 18–0[4]
November 6WesleyanHartford, CTL 4–62,000[5]
November 17at Waterbury YMCAWaterbury, CTL 0–8[6]
November 20at TuftsL 10–18[7]

References

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  1. ^ "1897 Trinity (CT) Bantams Schedule and Results".
  2. ^ ""Not So Warm" Just Yet: Yale Scores Only 10 Against Trinity and U. of P. is Scored on at Home". The boston Globe. September 30, 1897. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.}
  3. ^ "Trinity's strong game". The Hartford Daily Courant. October 25, 1897. Retrieved February 7, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Trinity's Great Game—Defeated Amherst at Football by the Big score of 16 to 0". Hartford. Hartford, Connecticut. November 1, 1897. p. 6. Retrieved May 28, 2023 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "Trinity Defeated—Wesleyan Wins the Football Game 6 to 4". Hartford. Hartford, Connecticut. November 8, 1897. p. 6. Retrieved May 28, 2023 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "Y. M. C. A. Boys Victorious". The Waterbury Democrat. Waterbury, Connecticut. November 18, 1897. p. 5. Retrieved May 28, 2023 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "Tufts 18, Trinity 10". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 21, 1897. p. 21. Retrieved May 28, 2023 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.