1908 Carlisle Indians football
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–2–1
Head coach
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
Home stadiumIndian Field
1908 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn    11 0 1
Harvard    9 0 1
Cornell    7 1 1
Fordham    5 1 0
Yale    7 1 1
Dartmouth    6 1 1
Carlisle    10 2 1
Washington & Jefferson    10 2 1
Army    6 1 2
Pittsburgh    8 3 0
Lafayette    6 2 2
Princeton    5 2 3
Syracuse    6 3 1
Brown    5 3 1
Temple    3 2 1
Colgate    4 3 0
Lehigh    4 3 0
Dickinson    5 4 0
Amherst    3 3 2
Holy Cross    4 4 0
Penn State    5 5 0
Vermont    3 3 3
Wesleyan    3 4 2
Springfield Training School    3 4 1
NYU    2 3 2
Frankin & Marshall    4 6 1
Bucknell    3 5 2
Rutgers    3 5 1
Boston College    2 4 2
Carnegie Tech    3 7 0
Geneva    1 6 2
Tufts    1 6 1
Villanova    1 6 0
Drexel    0 7 0

The 1908 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as an independent during the 1908 college football season. Led by seventh-year head coach Pop Warner, the Indians compiled a record of 10–2–1 and outscored opponents 222 to 55. Warner's team ran the single-wing on offense.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 19Conway HallCarlisle, PAW 53–0
September 23Lebanon ValleyCarlisle, PAW 39–0
September 26Villanova
  • Indian Field
  • Carlisle, PA
W 10–0[1]
October 3vs. Penn StateWilkes-Barre, PAW 12–510,000
October 10vs. SyracuseW 12–08,000
October 24at PennT 6–625,000[2]
October 31at NavyW 16–6
November 7at HarvardL 0–17> 25,000[3]
November 14at PittsburghW 6–07,000[4]
November 21at MinnesotaL 6–1115,000
November 263:00 p.m.at Saint LouisW 17–0[5][6]
December 23:30 p.m.at Nebraska
W 37–62,000
December 5at DenverDenver, COW 8–4[7]

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See also

References

  1. "Indians Defeat Villanova, 10 To 1[sic]". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. September 27, 1908. p. 10b. Retrieved November 8, 2021 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  2. "Indians Tie Old Penn in Grueling Football Battle". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 25, 1908. p. 13 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Harvard 17, Carlisle 0: Indians Outplayed From Start to Finish". The Boston Globe. November 8, 1908. p. 1 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Indians are held to Six Points by Pittsburgh Football Eleven". The Pittsburgh Sunday Post. November 15, 1908. p. 15 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "St. Louis University Tackles Indians At Sportsman's Park This Afternoon". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. St. Louis, Missouri. November 26, 1908. p. 13. Retrieved January 6, 2023 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. "Carlisle Team's Unity in Game Gave It Victory Over St. Louis Though the Latter Was Game". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. November 27, 1908. p. 14 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Carlisle Has Hard Time Defeating Denver University at Foot Ball: Indians Get Another Scalp". The Omaha Sunday Bee. December 6, 1908. p. Sports 1 via Newspapers.com.
  8. "1908 Carlisle Indian Schedule and Results".


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