1897 Dartmouth football team
American college football season
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The 1897 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1897 college football season.[1]
- William Wurtenburg (3rd season)
| 1897 Dartmouth football | |
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TFL champion | |
| Conference | Triangular Football League |
| Record | 4â3 (2â0 TFL) |
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| Captain | John B. Eckstorm |
| Home stadium | Alumni Oval |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dartmouth $ | 2 | â | 0 | â | 0 | 4 | â | 3 | â | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amherst | 0 | â | 1 | â | 1 | 2 | â | 6 | â | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Williams | 0 | â | 1 | â | 1 | 1 | â | 7 | â | 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 4â3 record. Despite going 2â0 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 13â0. The loss was followed by blowout defeats by Penn and Princeton, with Dartmouth losing by combined score of 64â0. 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
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| October 2 | Phillips Exeter Academy* |
| W 34â0 | [3][4] | ||
| October 9 | at Harvard* | L 0â13 | 5,000 | [5] | ||
| October 16 | 3:21 p.m. | at Penn* | L 0â34 | 5,000 | [6] | |
| October 30 | 3:10 p.m. | at Princeton* | L 0â30 | 2,000 | [7][8] | |
| November 13 | Amherst | Hanover, NH | W 54â0 | [9] | ||
| November 20 | at Williams | W 52â0 | [10] | |||
| November 25 | at Newton Athletic Club* |
| W 24â0 | [11] | ||
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