1897 college football season

The 1897 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Penn and Yale as having been selected national champions.[1]

Conference and program changes

Conference establishments

Membership changes

School1896 Conference1897 Conference
Arizona Normal FootballProgram EstablishedIndependent
Central ColonelsIndependentSIAA
Gallaudet BisonIndependentMIFA

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1897 CFA football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Colorado $ 2 –0 –0  7 –1 –0
Colorado Mines 1 –1 –0  2 –2 –0
Colorado College 0 –2 –0  3 –5 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
1897 college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Oregon Agricultural   –    5 –0 –0
Drexel   –    7 –1 –1
North Carolina   –    7 –3 –0
USC   –    5 –1 –0
Virginia   –    6 –2 –1
Stanford   –    4 –1 –0
Notre Dame   –    4 –1 –1
Washington Agricultural   –    2 –0 –0
Clemson   –    2 –2 –0
Oregon   –    1 –1 –0
Indiana State   –    1 –2 –0
Washington   –    1 –2 –0
Montana   –    1 –2 –3
California   –    0 –3 –2
Utah   –    1 –5 –0
1897 Maryland Intercollegiate Football Association standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Gallaudet $ 3 –0 –1  4 –1 –1
Maryland 0 –3 –0  2 –4 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
1897 SIAA football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Vanderbilt $ 3 –0 –0  6 –0 –1
Georgia 2 –0 –0  2 –1 –0
Auburn 2 –0 –1  2 –0 –1
Tennessee 1 –0 –0  4 –1 –0
Central 1 –1 –0  1 –1 –0
Nashville 1 –1 –0  1 –1 –0
Alabama 0 –0 –0  1 –0 –0
Texas 0 –0 –0  6 –2 –0
LSU 0 –0 –0  1 –1 –0
Sewanee 1 –2 –1  1 –3 –1
Clemson 0 –1 –0  2 –2 –0
Cumberland 0 –1 –0  0 –1 –0
Georgia Tech 0 –1 –0  0 –1 –0
Mercer 0 –1 –0  0 –1 –1
Kentucky State 0 –2 –0  2 –4 –0
SW Presbyterian 0 –0 –0  0 –0 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
1897 Triangular Football League standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Dartmouth $ 2 –0 –0  4 –3 –0
Amherst 0 –1 –1  2 –6 –2
Williams 0 –1 –1  1 –7 –1
  • $ – Conference champion
1897 Western Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Wisconsin $ 3 –0 –0  9 –1 –0
Chicago 3 –1 –0  11 –1 –0
Michigan 2 –1 –0  6 –1 –1
Illinois 1 –1 –0  6 –2 –0
Purdue 1 –2 –0  5 –3 –1
Northwestern 0 –2 –0  5 –3 –0
Minnesota 0 –3 –0  4 –4 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
1897 Western Interstate football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Nebraska $ 3 –0 –0  5 –1 –0
Kansas 2 –1 –0  8 –2 –0
Iowa 0 –2 –0  4 –4 –0
Missouri 0 –2 –0  5 –6 –0
  • $ – Conference champion

Minor conferences

Conference Champion(s) Record
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Kalamazoo 5–0–0

See also

References

  1. ↑ Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
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