1906 Carlisle Indians football team

The 1906 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School 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.

1906 Carlisle Indians football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–3
Head coach
CaptainAlbert Exendine
Home stadiumIndian Field
1906 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22Villanova
W 6–0
September 29Albright
  • Indian Field
  • Carlisle, PA
W 82–0
October 3Susquehanna
  • Indian Field
  • Carlisle, PA
W 48–0
October 6vs. Penn StateWilliamsport, PAL 0–4
October 13at CincinnatiCincinnati, OHW 18–0
October 20at Western University of PennsylvaniaW 22–05,000[2]
October 27at PennW 24–6
November 32:30 p.m.vs. SyracuseW 9–48,000[3]
November 10at HarvardL 0–5
November 17at MinnesotaW 17–020,000
November 22at VanderbiltL 0–48,000
November 29vs. Virginia
W 18–177,000[4][5]

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See also

References

  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
  2. "WUP Team Humiliated By Carlisle Indians". Pittsburgh Daily Post. October 21, 1906. p. 17 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Carlisle Meets Syracuse Today". Buffalo Courier. Buffalo, New York. November 3, 1906. p. 10. Retrieved April 29, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  4. "Virginia's Great Game". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. November 30, 1906. p. 9. Retrieved April 29, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  5. "Carlisle Defeats Virginia". The Lexington Herald. Lexington, Kentucky. November 30, 1906. p. 6. Retrieved April 29, 2021 via Newspapers.com open access.
  6. "1906 Carlisle Indian Schedule and Results".


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