1918 Geneva Covenanters football team

1918 Geneva Covenanters football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–2
Head coach
CaptainSamuel A. Steele, Stewart
Home stadiumGeneva Field
Seasons
← 1917
1919 →
1918 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Bucknell     6 0 0
Princeton     3 0 0
Holy Cross     2 0 0
Army     1 0 0
Buffalo     6 1 0
Columbia     5 1 0
Syracuse     5 1 0
Pittsburgh     4 1 0
Boston College     5 2 0
Rutgers     5 2 0
Franklin & Marshall     2 1 0
Geneva     4 2 0
Swarthmore     4 2 0
Harvard     2 1 0
Fordham     4 2 1
Villanova     3 2 0
Penn     5 3 0
Dartmouth     3 3 0
Lehigh     4 4 0
Washington & Jefferson     2 2 0
New Hampshire     2 2 1
Lafayette     3 4 0
Brown     2 3 0
Tufts     2 3 0
Penn State     1 2 1
Vermont     0 1 1
Drexel     0 1 0
NYU     0 4 0

The 1918 Geneva Covenanters football team was an American football team that represented Geneva College as an independent during the 1918 college football season. Led by second-year head coach Philip Henry Bridenbaugh, the team compiled a record of 4–2, outscoring its opponents 63 to 36. Samuel A. Steele, who played at guard, was the team's captain at the outset of the season, but he died of pneumonia induced by the Spanish flu in October, after the team's opening game against The Kiski School.[1] Stewart, who played at center, served as captain when the team resumed play in November.[2]

  1. ^ "Geneva Football Captain Victim of Pneumonia". The Pittsburgh Gazette Times. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November 24, 1918. p. 19. Retrieved September 26, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  2. ^ Gilmore, Lawrence B. (December 15, 1918). "Geneva College, With Less Than 100 Men to Draw From, Startles Football World With Great Wartime Record". The Pittsburgh Sunday Post. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. p. 23. Retrieved September 26, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.