1917 Williams Ephs football team

The 1917 Williams Ephs football team represented Williams College as an independent during the 1917 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Mysterious Walker, the Ephs compiled a record of 7–0–1. Quarterback Benny Boynton led the squad to its first undefeated record. Boynton scored all the points in a 9–6 defeat of Columbia.

1917 Williams Ephs football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–0–1
Head coach
CaptainHenry M. Halsted Jr.
Home stadiumWeston Field
1917 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 29RPIW 20–0
October 6at Union (NY)Schenectady, NYW 13–6[1]
October 13at CornellW 14–10[2]
October 20Hamilton
  • Weston Field
  • Williamstown, MA
W 12–0
October 27at Columbia
W 25–0[3]
November 3at WesleyanMiddletown, CTT 0–0
November 10Middlebury
  • Weston Field
  • Williamstown, MA
W 39–0
November 17Amherst
  • Weston Field
  • Williamstown, MA (rivalry)
W 20–0

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References

  1. "Williams 13, Union 6". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 7, 1917. p. 15. Retrieved October 2, 2022 via Newspapers.com open access.
  2. "Cornell Loses Score 14 To 10". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, New York. October 13, 1917. p. 1. Retrieved October 2, 2022 via Newspapers.com open access.
  3. "Columbia Topples Before Williams". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. October 28, 1917. p. E6.
  4. "Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac". 1918.


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