1904 Carlisle Indians football team

The 1904 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as an independent during the 1904 college football season. Led by Eddie Rogers in his first and only season as head coach, the Indians compiled a record of 10–2 and outscored opponents 347 to 44.[1]

1904 Carlisle Indians football
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–2
Head coach
Seasons
← 1903
1905 →
1904 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn     12 0 0
Western U. of Penn.     10 0 0
Dartmouth     7 0 1
Yale     10 1 0
Amherst     9 1 0
Colgate     8 1 1
Carlisle     10 2 0
Lafayette     8 2 0
Princeton     8 2 0
Army     7 2 0
Fordham     4 1 1
Harvard     7 2 1
Dickinson     8 3 1
Columbia     7 3 0
Cornell     7 3 0
Villanova     4 2 1
Syracuse     6 3 0
Swarthmore     6 3 0
Washington & Jefferson     5 3 1
Penn State     6 4 0
Temple     3 2 0
Brown     6 5 0
Bucknell     3 3 0
Springfield Training School     4 4 1
NYU     3 6 0
Holy Cross     2 5 2
Wesleyan     3 7 0
Geneva     1 4 2
Vermont     1 5 2
New Hampshire     2 5 0
Rutgers     1 6 2
Tufts     2 9 1
Lehigh     1 8 0
Frankin & Marshall     0 10 0

The school started their program in 1895 and began playing against Ivy League schools.[2] Within the next twenty years they became one of the strongest football teams in the country.[2]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 17Lebanon ValleyCarlisle, PAW 28–0[3]
October 1GettysburgCarlisle, PAW 41–0[4]
October 5SusquehannaCarlisle, PAW 53–0
October 8vs. BucknellWilliamsport, PAW 10–4[5][6][7]
October 15AlbrightCarlisle, PAW 100–0[8]
October 22at HarvardL 0–12
October 29vs. Virginia
W 14–6[9][10]
November 5UrsinusCarlisle, PAW 28–0
November 12at PennL 0–18[11]
November 19at SusquehannaSelinsgrove, PAW 12–62,000[12]
November 24at Ohio StateW 23–0[13][14]
November 26vs. HaskellW 38–412,000[15][16]

References

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  1. ^ "1904 Carlisle Indians Schedule and Results | College Football". www.sports-reference.com.
  2. ^ a b "Carlisle Indians Made It A Whole New Ballgame". Washington Post Company. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
  3. ^ "LVC 1897-2019 All-Time Results.xls" (PDF).
  4. ^ "1904 Football Schedule - Gettysburg College Athletics".
  5. ^ "1904 Football Schedule - Bucknell University Athletics".
  6. ^ {[cite web |url=https://digital.la84.org/digital/api/collection/p17103coll10/id/7936/download |title=My football notebook.}}
  7. ^ "07FB98-136.indd" (PDF).
  8. ^ "CARLISLE, 100; ALBRIGHT, 0. - The New York Times". The New York Times.
  9. ^ "Indians 14 Virginia 6". The Norfolk Virginian. Norfolk, Virginia. October 30, 1904. p. 1. Retrieved April 29, 2021 – via Newspapers.com  .
  10. ^ "Indians 14; Va. 6 (continued)". The Norfolk Virginian. Norfolk, Virginia. October 30, 1904. p. 6. Retrieved April 29, 2021 – via Newspapers.com  .
  11. ^ "Penn, 18; Indians, 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 13, 1904. pp. 1, 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Indians Were Surprised". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 20, 1904. p. 14. Retrieved April 29, 2021 – via Newspapers.com  .
  13. ^ "The Lantern, 2 March 1904".
  14. ^ "Winsipedia - College football database of all-time records, wins, and statistics".
  15. ^ "Carlisle, 38; Haskell, 4". The Baltimore Sun. Baltimore, Maryland. November 27, 1904. p. 10. Retrieved April 23, 2019 – via Newspapers.com  .
  16. ^ "Carlisle Toyed With Haskell, Running Up Large Score, 38 To 4". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. St. Louis, Missouri. November 27, 1904. p. 22. Retrieved April 23, 2019 – via Newspapers.com  .