1897 college football season

1897 college football season
Total # of teams	28[1]
Number of bowls	0
Champions	Penn Quakers Yale Bulldogs
College football seasons « 1896 1898 »

The 1897 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Penn and Yale as having been selected national champions.^[2]

Conference and program changes

Conference establishments

• One conference played its final season in 1897:
  • Western Interstate University Football Association – active since 1892

Membership changes

School	1896 Conference	1897 Conference
Arizona Normal Football	Program Established	Independent
Central Colonels	Independent	SIAA
Gallaudet Bison	Independent	MIFA

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1897 CFA football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Colorado $ 5 – 0 – 0     7 – 1 – 0 $ – Conference champion	1897 college football independents records Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Oregon Agricultural   –       5 – 0 – 0 USC   –       5 – 1 – 0 Stanford   –       4 – 1 – 0 Notre Dame   –       4 – 1 – 1 Washington Agricultural   –       2 – 0 – 0 Oregon   –       1 – 1 – 0 Washington   –       1 – 2 – 0 Montana   –       1 – 2 – 3 California   –       0 – 3 – 2 Utah   –       1 – 5 – 0	1897 SIAA football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Vanderbilt $ 3 – 0 – 0     6 – 0 – 1 Georgia 2 – 0 – 0     2 – 1 – 0 Auburn 2 – 0 – 1     2 – 0 – 1 North Carolina 3 – 1 – 0     7 – 3 – 0 Tennessee 1 – 1 – 0     4 – 1 – 0 Central 1 – 1 – 0     1 – 1 – 0 Nashville 1 – 1 – 0     1 – 1 – 0 Sewanee 1 – 3 – 1     1 – 3 – 1 Clemson 0 – 2 – 0     2 – 2 – 0 Kentucky State 0 – 2 – 0     2 – 4 – 0 Georgia Tech 0 – 1 – 0     0 – 1 – 0 Cumberland 0 – 1 – 0     0 – 1 – 0 Mercer 0 – 1 – 0     0 – 1 – 1 Texas 0 – 0 – 0     6 – 2 – 0 Alabama 0 – 0 – 0     1 – 0 – 0 LSU 0 – 0 – 0     1 – 1 – 0 $ – Conference champion
1897 Triangular Football League standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Dartmouth $ 2 – 0 – 0     4 – 3 – 0 Amherst 0 – 1 – 1     2 – 6 – 2 Williams 0 – 1 – 1     1 – 7 – 1 $ – Conference champion	1897 Western Conference football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Wisconsin $ 3 – 0 – 0     9 – 1 – 0 Chicago 3 – 1 – 0     11 – 1 – 0 Michigan 2 – 1 – 0     6 – 1 – 1 Illinois 1 – 1 – 0     6 – 2 – 0 Purdue 1 – 2 – 0     5 – 3 – 1 Northwestern 0 – 2 – 0     5 – 3 – 0 Minnesota 0 – 3 – 0     4 – 4 – 0 $ – Conference champion	1897 Western Interstate football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Nebraska $ 3 – 0 – 0     5 – 1 – 0 Kansas 2 – 1 – 0     8 – 2 – 0 Iowa 0 – 2 – 0     4 – 4 – 0 Missouri 0 – 2 – 0     5 – 6 – 0 $ – Conference champion

Minor conferences

Conference	Champion(s)	Record
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association	Kalamazoo	5–0–0

See also

• 1897 College Football All-America Team

References

1. http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cf1897.htm
2. Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved 2009-10-16.