1906 Carlisle Indians football
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Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   9 – 0 – 1
Yale   –   9 – 0 – 1
Haverford   –   7 – 0 – 2
Harvard   –   10 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   8 – 1 – 2
Lafayette   –   8 – 1 – 1
Penn State   –   8 – 1 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   9 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   7 – 2 – 0
Drexel   –   6 – 2 – 0
Tufts   –   6 – 2 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 2 – 3
Carlisle   –   9 – 3 – 0
Brown   –   6 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   5 – 2 – 2
Dartmouth   –   6 – 3 – 1
Syracuse   –   6 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 2 – 2
Vermont   –   5 – 4 – 0
Fordham   –   5 – 3 – 0
Western U. of Penn.   –   6 – 4 – 0
Holy Cross   –   4 – 3 – 1
Amherst   –   3 – 3 – 1
Lehigh   –   5 – 5 – 1
Bucknell   –   3 – 4 – 1
Dickinson   –   3 – 4 – 2
Carnegie Tech   –   2 – 3 – 2
Army   –   3 – 5 – 1
Frankin & Marshall   –   3 – 5 – 1
Wesleyan   –   2 – 4 – 1
New Hampshire   –   2 – 5 – 1
Villanova   –   3 – 7 – 0
Springfield Training School   –   1 – 5 – 3
NYU   –   0 – 4 – 0

The 1906 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as an independent during the 1906 college football season. Led by Bemus Pierce in his first and only season as head coach, the Indians compiled a record of 9–3 and outscored opponents 244 to 40. Vanderbilt had one of the first big upsets from the south when it defeated Carlisle 4 to 0.[1] 1906 was the first season with a legal forward pass.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22Villanova
W 6–0
September 29Albright
  • Indian Field
  • Carlisle, PA
W 82–0
October 3Susquehanna
  • Indian Field
  • Carlisle, PA
W 48–0
October 6vs. Penn StateWilliamsport, PAL 0–4
October 13at CincinnatiCincinnati, OHW 18–0
October 20at Western University of Pennsylvania
W 22–05,000[2]
October 27at Penn
W 24–6
November 32:30 p.m.vs. Syracuse
W 9–48,000[3]
November 10at Harvard
L 0–5
November 17at Minnesota
W 17–020,000
November 22at Vanderbilt
L 0–48,000
November 29vs. Virginia
W 18–177,000[4][5]

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See also

References

  1. ^ "Brown Calls Vanderbilt '06 Best Eleven South Ever Had". Atlanta Constitution. February 19, 1911. p. 52. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ "WUP Team Humiliated By Carlisle Indians". Pittsburgh Daily Post. October 21, 1906. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Carlisle Meets Syracuse Today". Buffalo Courier. Buffalo, New York. November 3, 1906. p. 10. Retrieved April 29, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "Virginia's Great Game". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. November 30, 1906. p. 9. Retrieved April 29, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "Carlisle Defeats Virginia". The Lexington Herald. Lexington, Kentucky. November 30, 1906. p. 6. Retrieved April 29, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "1906 Carlisle Indian Schedule and Results".


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