1916 Colgate football team

American college football season

1916 Colgate football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1
Head coach
  • Laurence Bankart (5th season)
CaptainClarence Horning
Home stadiumWhitnall Field
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Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Army     9 0 0
Pittsburgh     8 0 0
Brown     8 1 0
Colgate     8 1 0
Yale     8 1 0
Fordham     6 1 1
Swarthmore     6 1 1
Penn State     8 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Cornell     6 2 0
Princeton     6 2 0
Lehigh     6 2 1
Dartmouth     5 2 2
Harvard     7 3 0
Penn     7 3 1
Temple     3 1 2
Tufts     5 3 0
Carnegie Tech     4 3 0
Rutgers     3 2 2
NYU     4 3 1
Syracuse     5 4 0
Holy Cross     4 5 0
Vermont     4 5 0
Rhode Island State     3 4 1
Geneva     2 5 2
Carlisle     1 3 1
Lafayette     2 6 1
Bucknell     3 9 0
Columbia     1 5 2
Franklin & Marshall     1 7 0
Villanova     1 8 0

The 1916 Colgate football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1916 college football season. In its fifth and final season under head coach Laurence Bankart, the team compiled an 8–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 218 to 30. Clarence Horning was the team captain.[1][2] The team played its home games on Whitnall Field in Hamilton, New York.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 30SusquehannaHamilton, NYW 34–0
October 7MaineUtica, NYW 28–0
October 14at Illinois
W 15–3
October 21at Rhode Island StateHamilton, NYW 33–0[3]
October 28Springfield (MA)Hamilton, NYW 27–14
November 4at YaleL 3–7[4]
November 11RochesterHamilton, NYW 35–6
November 18at SyracuseW 15–0
November 25at Brown
W 28–0

References

  1. ^ "2008 Colgate Football Media Guide" (PDF). Colgate University. 2008. p. 126. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 23, 2023. Retrieved June 6, 2020 – via Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ "1916 Colgate Raiders Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  3. ^ "Colgate Mows Down Rhode Island State". The Sun. October 22, 1916. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Yale Defeats Colgate 7 to 3". Boston Post. November 5, 1916. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
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