1923 Boston University football team

The 1923 Boston University football team was an American football team that represented Boston University as an independent during the 1923 college football season. In its third season under head coach Charles Whelan, the team compiled a 1–6 record, was shut out in five of seven games, and was outscored by a total of 181 to 21.[1]

1923 Boston University football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–6
Head coach
1923 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Cornell    8 0 0
Yale    8 0 0
St. John's    5 0 1
Dartmouth    8 1 0
Syracuse    8 1 0
Boston College    7 1 1
Rutgers    7 1 1
Washington & Jefferson    6 1 1
Holy Cross    8 2 0
Lafayette    6 1 2
Tufts    6 2 0
Army    6 2 1
Colgate    6 2 1
Geneva    6 2 1
Lehigh    6 2 1
NYU    6 2 1
Penn State    6 2 1
Vermont    6 3 1
Brown    6 4 0
Harvard    4 3 1
Carnegie Tech    4 3 1
Penn    5 4 0
Pittsburgh    5 4 0
Bucknell    4 4 1
Columbia    4 4 1
Duquesne    4 4 0
Princeton    3 3 1
Franklin & Marshall    3 5 1
Drexel    2 6 0
Buffalo    2 5 1
Fordham    2 7 0
Boston University    1 6 0
Villanova    0 7 1
Temple    0 5 0
CCNY    0 7 0
Springfield    0 7 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 13at DartmouthL 0–24[2]
October 20at Brown
L 3–20[3]
October 27at Holy CrossL 0–13[4]
November 3at ColbyWaterville, MEW 18–7[5]
November 10at SyracuseL 0–49[6]
November 17at Rutgers
L 0–61> 3,000[7]
November 24at NYUL 0–72,500[8]

References

  1. "Boston Yearly Results 1920-1924". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
  2. "Dartmouth Too Strong For B.U.: Piles Up 24 Points and Blanks Terriers". The Boston Globe. October 14, 1923. p. 20 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Brown Scores On Long Runs: Given Hard Battle, but Defeats B.U., 20 to 3". The Boston Globe. October 21, 1923. p. 18 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Holy Cross In 13 to 0 Victory". The Boston Globe. October 28, 1923. p. 22 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Boston University Beats Colby, 18-7". The Boston Globe. November 4, 1923. p. 23 via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Syracuse Marches on Smothering Boston U. in Spectacular Game". Buffalo Express. November 11, 1923 via Newspapers.com.
  7. R. Wallace Elliott (November 25, 1923). "Rutgers' Relentless and Furious Attack Wears Down Rugged Bostonians and Scores Sixty-one Points in Three Periods". The Sunday Times (New Brunswick, NJ). pp. 9–10 via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Blocked kick fatal to B.U." The Boston Globe. November 25, 1923. Retrieved February 6, 2021 via Newspapers.com.
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