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1896 Carlisle Indians football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–5
Head coach
CaptainBemus Pierce
Seasons
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1896 Eastern college football independents records
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  • Conf Overall
    Team W   L   T W   L   T
    Fordham     1 0 0
    Lafayette     11 0 1
    Princeton     10 0 1
    Washington & Jefferson     8 0 1
    Penn     14 1 0
    Yale     13 1 0
    Pittsburgh College     11 2 0
    Buffalo     9 1 2
    Villanova     10 4 0
    Bucknell     5 2 1
    Harvard     7 4 0
    Boston College     5 3 0
    Storrs     5 3 0
    Cornell     5 3 1
    Syracuse     5 3 2
    Temple     3 2 0
    Army     3 2 1
    Rutgers     6 6 0
    Carlisle     5 5 0
    Holy Cross     2 2 2
    Brown     4 5 1
    Wesleyan     4 5 1
    Frankin & Marshall     3 4 2
    Geneva     3 4 0
    Penn State     3 4 0
    Colgate     3 4 1
    Amherst     3 6 1
    Western Univ. Penn.     3 6 0
    Lehigh     2 5 0
    Tufts     2 6 1
    Swarthmore     2 6 0
    New Hampshire     1 4 0
    Drexel     1 5 0
    Massachusetts     0 4 0
    Rhode Island     0 4 0

    The 1896 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as an independent during the 1896 college football season. Led by Bill Hickok in his first and only season as head coach, the team compiled a record of 5–5 and outscored opponents 164 to 102.

    Carlisle played games against college football's "Big Four" (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Penn) and nearly defeated Yale. The New York Times reported on a run by Isaac Seneca that nearly won the game against Yale:

    "Seneca was given the ball to go through the centre. He got through with one or two Yale men hanging on to him. Then he squirmed and shook off the Yale men, dodged a man or two, and, making a splendid run down the field, made what was thought to be a touchdown. Nearly all on the grounds shouted themselves hoarse. Men waved their hats in the air, pretty gals clapped their hands ..."[1]

    However, the referee waved off the touchdown, ruling that Seneca was "down" when the Yale players hung on to him. The New York Times wrote the next day that the referee had made the wrong call and that Carlisle had been robbed of a touchdown, but the game went into the record books as a 12–6 win for Yale.[1]

    Schedule[edit]

    DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
    September 26vs. DickinsonCarlisle, PAW 28–6
    October 3atDuquesne Country and Athletic Club
  • Allegheny, PA
  • W 18–02,000[2]
    October 14atPrinceton
  • Princeton, NJ
  • L 6–22[3]
    October 24vs. Yale
  • New York, NY
  • L 6–125,000[1]
    October 31atHarvard
  • Boston, MA
  • L 0–4
    November 7atPenn
  • Philadelphia, PA
  • L 0–21
    November 14atCincinnati
  • Cincinnati, OH
  • W 28–05,000[4][5]
    November 21vs. Penn State
    • Sixth Street gridiron
  • Harrisburg, PA
  • W 48–52,000[6][7]
    November 26vs. Brown
  • New York, NY
  • L 12–2415,000–18,000[8][9][10]
    December 198:00 p.m.vs. Wisconsin
  • Chicago, IL
  • W 18–816,000[11]

    [12]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ a b c "Yale Had a Close Call". The New York Times. October 25, 1896. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Scalped by the Redskins". The Pittsburg Post. October 4, 1896. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Princeton, 22; Carlisle, 6". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 15, 1896. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  • ^ "Indians Are Winners". The Chicago Chronicle. Chicago, Illinois. November 15, 1896. p. 10. Retrieved April 27, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  • ^ "On The Gridiron". Times Recorder. Zanesville, Ohio. November 15, 1896. p. 1. Retrieved April 27, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  • ^ "Carlisle 48, State 5". The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November 22, 1896. p. 6. Retrieved April 27, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  • ^ "State College Scalped". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 22, 1896. p. 9. Retrieved April 27, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  • ^ "Football". The Champaign County News. Champaign, Illinois. November 28, 1896. p. 5. Retrieved April 27, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  • ^ "Beat The Indians". Buffalo Evening News. Buffalo, New York. November 27, 1896. p. 29. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  • ^ "Brown 24, Carlisle 12". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 22, 1896. p. 5. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  • ^ "Won By The Red Men: Wisconsin 'Varsity Loses to the Carlisle School". Chicago Inter Ocean. December 20, 1896. pp. 1, 4.
  • ^ "1896 Carlisle Indian Schedule and Results".

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