1897 Dartmouth football
TFL champion
ConferenceTriangular Football League
Record4–3 (2–0 TFL)
Head coach
CaptainJohn B. Eckstorm
Home stadiumAlumni Oval
Seasons
← 1896
1898 →
1897 Triangular Football League standings
Conf Overall
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
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1897 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1897 college football season.[1]

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]

Several members of the team would later become college football coaches, including John B. Eckstorm, Joseph Wentworth, Frank Cavanaugh, David Carr MacAndrew, Joseph H. Edwards, Fred Crolius, and Charles J. Boyle.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 2Phillips Exeter Academy*
W 34–0[3][4]
October 9at Harvard*
L 0–135,000[5]
October 163:21 p.m.at Penn*
L 0–345,000[6]
October 303:10 p.m.at Princeton*
L 0–302,000[7][8]
November 13AmherstHanover, NHW 54–0[9]
November 20at Williams
W 52–0[10]
November 25at Newton Athletic Club*
W 24–0[11]

References

  1. ^ 1897 Dartmouth College football scores and results Archived December 8, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 4, 2013.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Dartmouth 34, Exeter 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 3, 1897. p. 1. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "Dartmouth 34, Exeter 0 (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 3, 1897. p. 4. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "Harvard Wins Easily: Dartmouth Is Outgeneraled and Beaten By Score of 13 to 0". The Boston Globe. October 10, 1897. p. 1 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  6. ^ "The Quakers's Play Was A Revelation". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 17, 1897. p. 8. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "Tigers Run Thirty On Dartmouth's Team". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 31, 1897. p. 11. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  8. ^ "Tigers' Strong Game: Show the Best Form Against Dartmouth Thus Far Evinced This Season". The Philadelphia Times. October 31, 1897. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Dartmouth Won". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 14, 1897. p. 6. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  10. ^ "Easily Won". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 21, 1897. p. 21. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  11. ^ "Dartmouth The Victor". The Burlington Free Press. Burlington, Vermont. November 26, 1897. p. 2. Retrieved March 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.


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