1917 Fordham Maroon football team

1917 Fordham Maroon football
ConferenceIndependent
Record22–3 / 7–2
Head coach
CaptainBulger Lowe, James Conklin, James Kendricks
Home stadiumFordham Field
Seasons
← 1916
1918 →
1917 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Pittsburgh     10 0 0
Williams     7 0 1
Yale     3 0 0
Princeton     2 0 0
Syracuse     8 1 1
Army     7 1 0
Rutgers     7 1 1
Penn     9 2 0
Brown     8 2 0
Fordham     7 2 0
Lehigh     7 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Swarthmore     6 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     7 3 0
Colgate     4 2 0
Harvard     3 1 3
New Hampshire     3 2 2
Dartmouth     5 3 0
Geneva     5 3 1
Penn State     5 4 0
Buffalo     4 4 0
NYU     2 2 3
Tufts     3 3 0
Carnegie Tech     2 3 1
Bucknell     3 5 1
Lafayette     3 5 0
Holy Cross     3 4 0
Rhode Island State     2 4 2
Carlisle     3 6 0
Columbia     2 4 0
Delaware     2 5 0
Cornell     3 6 0
Franklin & Marshall     2 6 0
Villanova     0 3 2
Temple     0 6 1

The 1917 Fordham Maroon football team was an American football team that represented Fordham University as an independent during the 1917 college football season. Fordham claims a 22–3 record.[1]: 156  College Football Data Warehouse (CFDW) lists the team's record at 7–2.[2] Opponents recognized by CFDW are displayed in bold in the schedule chart below.

Frank Gargan and Frank McCaffrey were the team's coaches. Left halfback Frankie Frisch, known as "The Fordham Flash", led the team on offense. He later played for 19 years in Major League Baseball from 1919 to 1937 and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Bulger Lowe played his only season with the University[1]: 167  as a tackle[3] and was one of the team captains,[1]: 12  becoming the first player from the school to play pro-football when in 1920, he was drafted.[1]: 12 

  1. ^ a b c d "2019 Fordham Football Media Guide" (PDF). Fordham University. 2019. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
  2. ^ "Fordham Yearly Results (1915-1919)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
  3. ^ "Ram Newspaper - 11/16/1918". The Ram Newspaper. Fordham University. November 16, 1918. Retrieved February 16, 2021.