1897 Dartmouth football team
The 1897 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1897 college football season.[1]
| 1897 Dartmouth football | |
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TFL champion | |
| Conference | Triangular Football League |
| 1897 record | 4–3 (2–0 TFL) |
| Head coach | William Wurtenburg (3rd season) |
| Captain | John B. Eckstorm |
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| Team | W | 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dartmouth played only seven games during the 1897 season, the fewest of any year under head coach William Wurtenburg. The squad completed the year with a mediocre 4–3 record. Despite going 2–0 in conference games, the team lost three consecutive games in major shutouts. The season began with a shutout of Phillips Exeter Academy, but quickly turned for the worse. Harvard returned to Dartmouth's schedule and defeated them 13–0. The loss was followed by blowout defeats by Penn and Princeton, with Dartmouth losing by combined score of 64–0. The squad took a week-long break, which allowed them to recover and defeat conference opponents Amherst and Williams by more than fifty points in each game to win a fifth consecutive championship. As with the previous year, the season concluded with a defeat of the Newton Athletic Club.[2]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result |
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| October 2 | Phillips Exeter Academy* | Hanover, NH | W 34–0 |
| October 9 | at Harvard* | L 0–13 | |
| October 16 | at Penn* | L 0–34 | |
| October 30 | at Princeton* |
| L 0–30 |
| November 13 | Amherst | Hanover, NH | W 54–0 |
| November 20 | at Williams | Williamstown, MA | W 52–0 |
| November 25 | Newton Athletic Club* | Hanover, NH | W 24–0 |
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References
- 1897 Dartmouth College football scores and results Archived December 8, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 4, 2013.
- Staff (2013). "William Wurtenburg coaching record–1897". William C. "Bill" Wurtenburg Records by Year. College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on April 24, 2014. Retrieved December 4, 2014.