1951 Colgate Red Raiders football team

The 1951 Colgate Red Raiders football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1951 college football season. In its fifth and final season under head coach Paul Bixler, the team compiled a 4–5 record and was outscored by a total of 187 to 184. William Owens was the team captain.[1][2]

1951 Colgate Red Raiders football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–5
Head coach
CaptainWilliam Owens
Home stadiumColgate Athletic Field
1951 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Bucknell   –  9 –0 –0
No. 6 Princeton   –  9 –0 –0
Northeastern   –  6 –0 –1
No. 19 Holy Cross   –  8 –2 –0
Carnegie Tech   –  6 –2 –0
Hofstra   –  6 –2 –1
Cornell   –  6 –3 –0
No. 16 Boston University   –  6 –4 –0
Temple   –  6 –4 –0
Columbia   –  5 –3 –0
Villanova   –  5 –3 –0
Fordham   –  5 –4 –0
Franklin & Marshall   –  5 –4 –0
Penn   –  5 –4 –0
Penn State   –  5 –4 –0
Syracuse   –  5 –4 –0
Buffalo   –  4 –4 –0
Colgate   –  4 –5 –0
Dartmouth   –  4 –5 –0
Drexel   –  3 –4 –0
Harvard   –  3 –5 –1
Boston College   –  3 –6 –0
Yale   –  2 –5 –2
Pittsburgh   –  3 –7 –0
Geneva   –  2 –5 –0
Army   –  2 –7 –0
Brown   –  2 –7 –0
NYU   –  1 –7 –0
Tufts   –  0 –7 –2
Rankings from AP Poll

Colgate was ranked at No. 94 in the 1951 Litkenhous Ratings.[3]

The team played its home games at Colgate Athletic Field in Hamilton, New York.

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29at Buffalo
W 47–13 26,126 [4]
October 6Cornell
L 18–41 12,000 [5]
October 13at Western Reserve
W 28–7 6,500 [6]
October 20at Brown
W 32–14 10,000 [7]
October 27at Yale
L 7–27 20,000 [8]
November 3at Holy Cross
L 6–34 5,000 [9]
November 10Bucknell
  • Colgate Athletic Field
  • Hamilton, NY
L 20–21[1]
November 17at Syracuse
L 0–9 34,000 [10]
November 24at Rutgers
W 26–21 8,000 [11]

References
  1. "2008 Colgate Football Media Guide" (PDF). Colgate University. 2008. p. 127. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  2. "1951 Colgate Raiders Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  3. "Vols Top Final 1951 Litkenhous Ratings". The Nashville Banner. December 14, 1951. p. 49 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Colgate Routs Buffalo, 47-13; Raiders Spot Bulls 13 Points". The Sunday Press. Binghamton, N.Y. Associated Press. September 30, 1951. p. 5D – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Slattery, Jack (October 7, 1951). "12,000 See Cornell Rout Colgate, 41-18". The Sunday Press. Binghamton, N.Y. p. 1D – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Colgate 11 Trims Western Reserve". The Coshocton Tribune. Coshocton, Ohio. United Press. October 14, 1951. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Colgate Shows Way to Brown's Eleven as Stratton's Passes Spark the Attack". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. October 21, 1951. p. S4.
  8. Cline, Frank (October 28, 1951). "Yale Defeats Colgate, 27-7, to Regain Winning Form". The Hartford Courant. Hartford, Conn. sect. IV, p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. Nason, Jerry (November 4, 1951). "Holy Cross Defensive Stalwarts Rout Colgate 34 to 6". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 47 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. Warner, Dave (November 18, 1951). "Orange Outbattles Colgate on Muddy Field, 9-0". Democrat and Chronicle. Rochester, N.Y. p. 1D – via Newspapers.com.
  11. Burns, Joe (November 25, 1951). "Rutgers Defeated by Colgate, 26-21, in Grid Finale". The Sunday Times. New Brunswick, N.J. p. 18 – via Newspapers.com.
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