1917 Fordham Maroon football team

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1917 Fordham Maroon football
ConferenceIndependent
1917 record22–3 / 7–2
Head coach
CaptainBill, James Conklin, James Kendricks
Home stadiumFordham Field
Seasons
← 1916
1918 →
1917 Eastern college football independents records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Pittsburgh   –   10 – 0 – 0
Williams   –   7 – 0 – 1
Yale   –   3 – 0 – 0
Princeton   –   2 – 0 – 0
Syracuse   –   8 – 1 – 1
Army   –   7 – 1 – 0
Rutgers   –   7 – 1 – 1
Penn   –   9 – 2 – 0
Brown   –   8 – 2 – 0
Fordham   –   7 – 2 – 0
Lehigh   –   7 – 2 – 0
Boston College   –   6 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   6 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   7 – 3 – 0
Colgate   –   4 – 2 – 0
Harvard   –   3 – 1 – 3
New Hampshire   –   3 – 2 – 2
Dartmouth   –   5 – 3 – 0
Geneva   –   5 – 3 – 1
Penn State   –   5 – 4 – 0
NYU   –   2 – 2 – 3
Tufts   –   3 – 3 – 0
Carnegie Tech   –   2 – 3 – 1
Bucknell   –   3 – 5 – 1
Lafayette   –   3 – 5 – 0
Holy Cross   –   3 – 4 – 0
Rhode Island State   –   2 – 4 – 2
Carlisle   –   3 – 6 – 0
Columbia   –   2 – 4 – 0
Delaware   –   2 – 5 – 0
Cornell   –   3 – 6 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   2 – 6 – 0
Villanova   –   0 – 3 – 2
Temple   –   0 – 6 – 1

The 1917 Fordham Maroon football team was an American football team that represented Fordham University as an independent during the 1917 college football season. Fordham claims a 22–3 record.[1]: 156  College Football Data Warehouse (CFDW) lists the team's record at 7–2.[2] Opponents recognized by CFDW are displayed in bold in the schedule chart below.

Frank Gargan and Frank McCaffrey were the team's coaches. Left halfback Frankie Frisch, known as "The Fordham Flash", led the team on offense. He later played for 19 years in Major League Baseball from 1919 to 1937 and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. George Lowe played his only season with the University[1]: 167  as a tackle[3] and was one of the team captains,[1]: 12  becoming the first player from the school to play pro-football when in 1920, he was drafted.[1]: 12 

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 29Fort Wadsworth
W 35–0[4]
October 5U.S. Ambulance CorpsAllentown, PAW 19–7[5]
October 13Norwich (VT)
  • Fordham Field
  • New York, NY
W 60–0[6]
October 20Holy Cross
  • Fordham Field
  • New York, NY
W 12–0[7]
October 27RutgersNew York, NYL 0–28[8]
November 3GeorgetownNew York, NYL 0–12
November 17at Cornell
W 27–6
Pelham Bay 3rd Naval DistrictW 28–0
November 29Camp UptonW 35–0
USS ArkansasW 35–0
USS TexasW 30–0
USS WyomingW 14–0
US Training Station, BayshoreW 10–7
Mitchell Field AviatorsL 0–7
Camp UptonW 42–10
Camp MerrittW 10–7
302nd EngineersW 35–13
Army PlebesW 10–6
Fort HG WrightW 21–0
Fort HG WrightW 10–7

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "2019 Fordham Football Media Guide" (PDF). Fordham University. 2019. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
  2. ^ "Fordham Yearly Results (1915-1919)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
  3. ^ "Ram Newspaper - 11/16/1918". The Ram Newspaper. Fordham University. November 16, 1918. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Fordham Trounces Fort Wadsworth". The Sun. September 30, 1917 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Fordham Wins From Ambulance Corps". The Allentown Leader. October 6, 1917. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Norwich 0 -- Fordham 60". The Northfield News. October 16, 1917. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Fordham Defeats Holy Cross Eleven". The Sun. October 21, 1917 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Rutgers Football Legions Overthrow Fordham Team". The Sun. October 28, 1917. p. II-3 – via Newspapers.com.
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