1897 Trinity Bantams football team

1897 Trinity Bantams football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–4–1
Head coach
CaptainA. S. Woodle
Home stadiumTrinity athletic field
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
Wesleyan   –   8 – 7 – 0
Bucknell   –   3 – 3 – 1
NYU   –   3 – 3 – 0
Temple   –   3 – 3 – 0
  –   4 – 4 – 1
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

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29Yale
L 10–0800[2]
October 2at Army
L 6–38
October 9MassachusettsHartford, CTW 26–5
October 16HamiltonHartford, CTW 16–0
October 24at NYU
W 34–0[3]
October 30at AmherstAmherst, MAW 18–0[4]
November 63:00 p.m.WesleyanHartford, CT (rivalry)L 4–62,000[5][6]
November 17at Waterbury YMCAWaterbury, CTL 0–8[7]
November 20at Tufts
L 10–18[8]

References

  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. ^ "Will Trinity Win?". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. November 6, 1897. p. 12. Retrieved July 26, 2025 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "Trinity Defeated—Wesleyan Wins the Football Game 6 to 4". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. November 8, 1897. p. 6. Retrieved May 28, 2023 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ "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.
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