1906 Carlisle Indians football team

1906 Carlisle Indians football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–3
Head coach
CaptainAlbert Exendine
Home stadiumIndian Field
Seasons
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1906 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton     9 0 1
Yale     9 0 1
Haverford     7 0 2
Harvard     10 1 0
Cornell     8 1 2
Lafayette     8 1 1
Penn State     8 1 1
Washington & Jefferson     9 2 0
Swarthmore     7 2 0
Drexel     6 2 0
Tufts     6 2 0
Penn     7 2 3
Carlisle     9 3 0
Brown     6 3 0
Rutgers     5 2 2
Dartmouth     6 3 1
Syracuse     6 3 0
Colgate     4 2 2
Vermont     5 4 0
Fordham     5 3 0
Western U. of Penn.     6 4 0
Holy Cross     4 3 1
Amherst     3 3 1
Lehigh     5 5 1
Bucknell     3 4 1
Dickinson     3 4 2
Carnegie Tech     2 3 2
Army     3 5 1
Frankin & Marshall     3 5 1
Wesleyan     2 4 1
New Hampshire     2 5 1
Villanova     3 7 0
Springfield Training School     1 5 3
NYU     0 4 0

The 1906 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, as an independent during the 1906 college football season.

Led by Bemus Pierce in his first and only season as head coach, the Indians compiled a record of 9–3 and outscored opponents 244 to 40. Vanderbilt had one of the first big upsets from the south when it defeated Carlisle 4 to 0.[1] 1906 was the first season with a legal forward pass.

  1. ^ "Brown Calls Vanderbilt '06 Best Eleven South Ever Had". Atlanta Constitution. February 19, 1911. p. 52. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon