1903 Colgate football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–2–1
Head coach
CaptainCarl Smith
Home stadiumWhitnall Field
1903 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton    11 0 0
Yale    11 1 0
Columbia    9 1 0
Dartmouth    9 1 0
Geneva    9 1 0
Holy Cross    8 2 0
Temple    4 1 0
Washington & Jefferson    8 2 0
Lehigh    9 2 1
Harvard    9 3 0
Penn    9 3 0
Army    6 2 1
Carlisle    6 2 1
Amherst    7 3 0
Lafayette    7 3 0
Cornell    6 3 1
Colgate    4 2 1
Penn State    5 3 0
Swarthmore    6 4 0
Brown    5 4 1
Syracuse    5 4 0
Fordham    1 1 0
Frankin & Marshall    5 5 1
Buffalo    4 4 0
Rutgers    4 4 1
Delaware    4 4 0
Villanova    2 2 0
Bucknell    4 5 0
Vermont    4 5 0
Tufts    5 8 0
Wesleyan    3 6 1
Springfield Training School    1 3 1
NYU    2 5 0
New Hampshire    2 6 1
Pittsburgh College    1 5 1
Western U. Penn.    1 8 1

The 1903 Colgate football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Bob Hatch, the team compiled a 4–2–1 record. Carl Smith was the team captain.[1] The team played its home games on Whitnall Field in Hamilton, New York.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26at ArmyT 0–0
October 4St. Lawrence
W 40–0
October 10at Cornell
L 0–12[2]
October 17at Syracuse Syracuse, NYW 10–53,000[3]
October 31Rochester
  • Whitnall Field
  • Hamilton, NY
W 23–5[4]
November 7at Williams
L 0–6[5]
November 14Hamilton
  • Whitnall Field
  • Hamilton, NY
W 16–0

References

  1. "2008 Colgate Football Media Guide" (PDF). Colgate University. 2008. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  2. "Cornell, 12; Colgate, 0". The New York Times. October 11, 1903. p. 13 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Colgate Beats Syracuse, 10 to 5". New York Daily Tribune. October 18, 1903. p. 7 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Played Against Big Handicap: Local Varsity Outweighed by Colgate Eleven". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. November 1, 1903. p. 22 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Williams 6, Colgate 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. November 8, 1903. p. 5 via Newspapers.com.
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