1901 Carlisle Indians football team

The 1901 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as an independent during the 1901 college football season. Led by third-year head coach Pop Warner, the Indians compiled a 5–7–1 record and was outscored by a total of 168 to 134.

1901 Carlisle Indians football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–7–1
Head coach
CaptainMartin Wheelock
Home stadiumIndian Field
1901 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Harvard   –  12 –0 –0
Yale   –  11 –1 –1
Cornell   –  11 –1 –0
Dartmouth   –  10 –1 –0
Massachusetts   –  9 –1 –0
Princeton   –  9 –1 –1
Syracuse   –  7 –1 –0
Holy Cross   –  7 –1 –1
Geneva   –  6 –1 –1
Army   –  5 –1 –2
Western U. of Penn   –  7 –2 –1
Lafayette   –  9 –3 –0
Swarthmore   –  8 –2 –2
Washington & Jefferson   –  6 –2 –2
Frankin & Marshall   –  7 –3 –1
Penn   –  10 –5 –0
Buffalo   –  4 –2 –0
Columbia   –  8 –5 –0
Fordham   –  2 –1 –1
Penn State   –  5 –3 –0
Bucknell   –  6 –4 –0
Pittsburgh College   –  3 –2 –0
Temple   –  3 –2 –0
NYU   –  4 –3 –1
Tufts   –  6 –6 –1
Vermont   –  5 –5 –1
Dickinson   –  3 –4 –0
Carlisle   –  5 –7 –1
Brown   –  4 –7 –1
Villanova   –  2 –3 –0
Drexel   –  2 –5 –1
Colgate   –  2 –5 –0
Boston College   –  1 –8 –0
Lehigh   –  1 –11 –0
New Hampshire   –  0 –6 –0
Rutgers   –  0 –7 –0

Two Carlisle players received honors from Walter Camp on the 1901 All-America team: Martin Wheelock as a second-team tackle and Jimmy Johnson as a third-team quarterback.[1] Johnson was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1969.[2]

Carlisle was one of three Native American schools in 1901 to field football teams that competed in college football. The other two were Haskell (6–2) in Kansas and Chilocco (2–5) in the Oklahoma Territory.

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 21Lebanon Valley
W 28–0[3]
September 28Gallaudet
  • Indian Field
  • Carlisle, PA
W 19–6[4]
October 2GettysburgHarrisburg, PAL 5–6[5]
October 53:00 p.m.vs. DickinsonCarlisle, PAW 16–11[6]
October 12vs. BucknellWilliamsport, PAW 6–55,000[7]
October 16Haverford
  • Indian Field
  • Carlisle, PA
W 29–0[8]
October 19at Cornell
L 0–1718,000[9]
October 26at Harvard
L 0–29[10]
November 2at Michigan
L 0–228,000[11]
November 9at Navy
L 5–16[12]
November 16at Penn
L 14–1610,000[13]
November 23vs. Washington & Jefferson
T 0–01,500[14]
November 28at Columbia
L 12–405,000[15]

[16]

Season summary

Week 4: vs. Dickinson

Despite the 16 to 11 Carlisle victory, The Dickinsonian called it "the greatest day in the football history of Dickinson."[17]

Week 9: at Michigan

The national champion Michigan Wolverines defeated the Carlisle Indians, 22–0, in a game played at Bennett Park in Detroit on November 2. The game was watched by a crowd of 8,000 spectators that included China's Minister to the United States, Wu Ting-Fan, occupying a box with former United States Secretary of War, Russell A. Alger.[18]

Week 13: at Columbia
Carlisle at Columbia
1 2Total
Carlisle 0 12 12
• Columbia 17 23 40

The Columbia Lions rolled up their largest score of the season, defeating the Indians 40 to 12. It was 40 to 0 until the final five minutes.[19][20] Starring in the contest was Columbia's backfield of Bill Morley, Harold Weekes, Dick Smith, and Chauncey L. Berrien.

References
  1. "All-America Team of 1901". Spalding's Football Guide: 47. 1902. Retrieved March 8, 2015 – via Google books. open access
  2. "Jimmy Johnson". College Football Hall of Fame. National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
  3. "Carlisle's First Game: Indians Defeat Lebanon, 28 to 0--"Pop" Warner Has Large Number of Candidates from Whom to Select Team". The Boston Globe. September 22, 1901. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Carlisle 19; Gallaudet 6". The Boston Globe. September 29, 1901. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Indians Lost: Redskin Warriors Beaten By Gettysburg Men". The Harrisburg Telegraph. October 3, 1901. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Indians Win: Dickinson Goes Down Before the Red Man's Line". Carlisle Daily Herald. October 6, 1901. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Indians Won From Bucknell Because They Kicked Goal". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 13, 1901. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Indians, 29; Haverford, 0". Harrisbug Star-Independent. October 17, 1901. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Cornell, I Yell!! Carlisle's football Braves met with Defeat from white Brothers". The Illustrated Buffalo Express. October 20, 1901. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Indians Dangerous Only Once: By a Run, and a Series of Rushes, They Get Within Harvard's Eight-Yard Line". The Boston Sunday Globe. October 27, 1901. pp. 1–2 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Red Men Fell Before U. of M.: Maize and Blue Scored Three Touchdowns and Goal From Field; Carlisle Put Up Great Defensive Game, But Failed To Make a Point (part 1)". Detroit Free Press. November 3, 1901. p. 1.
  12. "Annapolis 16, Carlisle 5: Sailor Boys Redeem Themselves in Second Half". The Minneapolis Tribune. November 10, 1901. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Pennsylvania Battles Hard And Wins From Indians, 16 To 14". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 17, 1901. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. "Wash.-Jeff. and Indians Fought to a Standstill: Neither Team Could Score". The Pittsburgh Gazette. November 24, 1901. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. "Columbia Beats Indians: Carlisle School Football Team Scores in Sensational Plays". The New York Times. November 29, 1901. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. "1901 Carlisle Indian Schedule and Results".
  17. "Indians 16-Dickinson 11". The Dickinsonian. No. 5. October 11, 1901. p. 1. Archived from the original on July 23, 2015. Retrieved July 22, 2015.
  18. "Michigan 22, Carlisle 0" (PDF). The New York Times. November 3, 1901. Retrieved March 12, 2010.
  19. "Carlisle Indians Lose". San Francisco Call. Vol. 90, no. 182. November 29, 1901.
  20. "Columbia, 40 - Carlisle 12". Columbia Daily Spectator. Vol. 45, no. 16. December 3, 1901.
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