Jump to content

1913 Franklin & Marshall football team

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1913 Franklin & Marshall football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–2
Head coach
Seasons
← 1912
1914 →
1913 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     9 0 0
Carlisle     10 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     10 0 1
Army     8 1 0
Dartmouth     7 1 0
Tufts     7 1 0
Colgate     6 1 1
Franklin & Marshall     6 2 0
Pittsburgh     6 2 1
Princeton     5 2 1
Yale     5 2 3
Rutgers     6 3 0
Penn     6 3 1
Villanova     4 2 1
Lehigh     5 3 0
Bucknell     6 4 0
Cornell     5 4 1
Boston College     4 3 1
Syracuse     6 4 0
Fordham     3 3 2
Geneva     4 4 0
Lafayette     4 5 1
Brown     4 5 0
Duquesne     3 5 1
Carnegie Tech     2 4 1
Holy Cross     3 6 0
Temple     1 3 2
Penn State     2 6 0
Rhode Island State     2 6 0
Vermont     1 5 0
NYU     0 8 0

The 1913 Franklin & Marshall football team was an American football team that represented Franklin & Marshall College during the 1913 college football season. The team compiled a 6–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 208 to 54.[1]

Charles Mayser, a successful preparatory coach, was hired as the school's head coach in 1913. Upon arriving, he promised: "I am going to put the F. and M. on the athletic map in letters big and bold."[2]

Schedule

[edit]
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27USS ConnecticutLancaster, PAW 69–01,500[3]
October 1at PennL 6–13[4]
October 18St. John's (MD)Lancaster, PAW 47–0
October 25at DickinsonCarlisle, PAW 6–3
November 1HaverfordLancaster, PAW 27–6
November 8at MuhlenbergAllentown, PAL 0–25[5]
November 15Lebanon ValleyLancaster, PAW 13–0
November 27GettysburgLancaster, PAW 40–7

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Franklin & Marshall Game by Game Results" (PDF). Franklin & Marshall University. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
  2. ^ "F. & M. Coach To Put College On Athletic Map". The Morning Journal. September 6, 1913. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "F. and M. Makes Sixty-Nine Points on Sailors". The New Era. September 29, 1913. p. 6.
  4. ^ "A Victory in Defeat: F. and M. Gives Penn a Big Scare Wednesday". The New Era. October 2, 1913. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Muhlenberg Victor Over F. & M. 25 to 0". The Allentown Leader. November 10, 1913. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.