1896 Pittsburgh College football team

1896 Pittsburgh College football
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1896 Eastern college football independents records
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 Pittsburgh College football team was an American football team that represented Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost—now known as Duquesne University—during the 1896 college football season.[1] Ernest H. "Rags" Brown served in his first and only season as the team's head coach.[1][2][3]

In advance of the season, the college rebranded its sports teams from Holy Ghost College to Pittsburg(h) College. This change was occasioned by unspecified disrespectful use of the religious name.[2][4]

  1. ^ a b "Duquesne Football Record Book" (PDF). goduquesne.com. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University. July 20, 2023. p. 23. Retrieved August 20, 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Pittsburg College". The Pittsburg Post. September 13, 1896. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Amateur Sports". The Pittsburg Press. September 21, 1896. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "P. Y. F. L. Notes". The Pittsburg Press. October 10, 1896. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.