1919 Lafayette football team

1919 Eastern college football independents records
v t	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Harvard		–		9	–	0	–	1
Penn State		–		7	–	1	–	0
Swarthmore		–		7	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth		–		6	–	1	–	1
Colgate		–		5	–	1	–	1
New Hampshire		–		7	–	2	–	0
Lafayette		–		6	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		6	–	2	–	0
Williams		–		6	–	2	–	0
Syracuse		–		8	–	3	–	0
Penn		–		6	–	2	–	1
Pittsburgh		–		6	–	2	–	1
Lehigh		–		6	–	3	–	0
Princeton		–		4	–	2	–	1
Geneva		–		4	–	2	–	2
Army		–		6	–	3	–	0
Boston College		–		5	–	3	–	0
Holy Cross		–		5	–	3	–	0
Rutgers		–		5	–	3	–	0
Yale		–		5	–	3	–	0
Villanova		–		5	–	3	–	1
Brown		–		5	–	4	–	1
Bucknell		–		5	–	4	–	1
NYU		–		4	–	4	–	0
Carnegie Tech		–		3	–	4	–	0
Columbia		–		2	–	4	–	3
Cornell		–		3	–	5	–	0
Vermont		–		3	–	6	–	0
Franklin & Marshall		–		2	–	4	–	2
Tufts		–		2	–	5	–	0
Rhode Island State		–		0	–	8	–	1
Drexel		–		0	–	4	–	0

The 1919 Lafayette football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1919 college football season. In its first season under head coach Jock Sutherland, the team compiled a 6–2 record.^[1] John Weldon was the team captain.^[2] The team played its home games at March Field in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 4	Muhlenberg	March Field Easton, PA	W 13–0
October 11	at Princeton	Palmer Stadium Princeton, NJ	L 6–9
October 18	Haverford	March Field Easton, PA	W 41–0
October 25	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–23
November 1	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 21–2
November 8	Dickinson	March Field Easton, PA	W 48–0
November 15	Trinity (CT)	March Field Easton, PA	W 35–0
November 22	at Lehigh	Taylor Stadium Bethlehem, PA (rivalry)	W 10–6

^ "2018 Lafayette Football Media Guide" (PDF). Lafayette University. p. 126. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
^ "Football Captains". Lafayette University. Retrieved June 15, 2020.

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