1917_Colgate_football_team

1917 Colgate football
1917 Colgate football
Conference	Independent
Record	4–2
Head coach	Harold McDevitt (1st season);
Captain	Charles Hubbell
Home stadium	Whitnall Field
	Seasons ← 1916 1919 →

1917 Colgate football team

American college football season

The 1917 Colgate football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1917 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Harold McDevitt, the team compiled a 4–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 118 to 40. Charles Hubbell was the team captain.^[1]^[2] The team played its home games on Whitnall Field in Hamilton, New York.

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Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 13	Bucknell	Whitnall Field Hamilton, NY	W 24–0
October 20	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	W 20–0
October 27	at Brown	Andrews Field Providence, RI	L 6–7		^[3]
November 3	vs. Holy Cross	Utica, NY	W 21–0		^[4]
November 10	St. Bonaventure	Whitnall Field Hamilton, NY	W 40–6
November 17	at Syracuse	Syracuse, NY (rivalry)	L 7–16	16,000

v t e	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

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