1907 NYU Violets football team

The 1907 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1907 college football season. In their first year under head coach Herman Olcott, the team compiled a 5–2 record.

1907 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Yale		–		9	–	0	–	1
Dartmouth		–		8	–	0	–	1
Penn		–		11	–	1	–	0
Carlisle		–		10	–	1	–	0
Temple		–		4	–	0	–	2
Fordham		–		6	–	1	–	1
Cornell		–		8	–	2	–	0
Western U. of Penn.		–		8	–	2	–	0
Princeton		–		7	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		7	–	2	–	0
Lafayette		–		7	–	2	–	1
Lehigh		–		7	–	2	–	1
Swarthmore		–		6	–	2	–	0
Army		–		6	–	2	–	1
NYU		–		5	–	2	–	0
Vermont		–		4	–	1	–	2
Harvard		–		7	–	3	–	0
Brown		–		7	–	3	–	0
Penn State		–		6	–	4	–	0
Syracuse		–		5	–	3	–	1
Drexel		–		3	–	2	–	2
Colgate		–		4	–	4	–	1
Geneva		–		4	–	5	–	2
Amherst		–		3	–	4	–	1
Tufts		–		3	–	4	–	1
Frankin & Marshall		–		4	–	6	–	0
Rutgers		–		3	–	5	–	1
Springfield Training School		–		2	–	4	–	2
Bucknell		–		4	–	7	–	0
New Hampshire		–		1	–	5	–	2
Villanova		–		1	–	5	–	1
Holy Cross		–		1	–	7	–	2
Wesleyan		–		1	–	7	–	1
Carnegie Tech		–		1	–	8	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 5	St. Stephen's	Ohio Field Bronx, NY	W 24–0		^[1]
October 11	at Stevens	Hoboken, NJ	W 18–6		^[2]
October 19	Haverford	Ohio Field Bronx, NY	L 0–22		^[3]
October 26	at RPI	Troy, NY	W 4–0		^[4]
November 5	Rutgers	Ohio Field Bronx, NY	W 11–0	7,000	^[5]
November 9	at Lehigh	Lehigh Field South Bethlehem, PA	L 0–34		^[6]
November 23	Union (NY)	Ohio Field Bronx, NY	W 12–7		^[7]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
November 19	Webb Academy	Ohio Field Bronx, NY	W 10–0	^[8]

^ "N.Y.U. wins first game". New York Tribune. October 6, 1907. p. 10. Retrieved February 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Stevens is beaten". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 11, 1907. p. 61. Retrieved February 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "New Yorkers outplayed". The New York Times. October 20, 1907. p. 30. Retrieved February 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "College football on many gridirons". New York Tribune. October 27, 1907. p. 10. Retrieved February 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "N.Y.U. crush Rutgers eleven". New Brunswick Home News. November 6, 1907. p. 3. Retrieved February 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Lehigh wallops N.Y. University". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 10, 1907. Retrieved February 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "New York beats Union". New York Tribune. November 24, 1907. p. 10. Retrieved February 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "New York University eleven played practice game". The New York Times. November 20, 1907. p. 7. Retrieved February 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

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