1997 Lafayette Leopards football team

The 1997 Lafayette Leopards football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College during the 1997 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Lafayette finished tied for second-to-last in the Patriot League.

1997 Lafayette Leopards football
ConferencePatriot League
Record3–8 (2–4 Patriot)
Head coach
Captains
  • Dan Bengele
  • Craig Hansen
  • Todd Stahlnecker
Home stadiumFisher Field
1997 Patriot League football standings
ConfOverall
Team W L  W L 
Colgate $^  6 –0   7 –5  
No. 24 Bucknell  5 –1   10 –1  
Fordham  4 –2   5 –6  
Holy Cross  2 –4   4 –7  
Lehigh  2 –4   4 –7  
Lafayette  2 –4   3 –8  
Towson  0 –6   2 –8  
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant
Rankings from The Sports Network poll

In their 17th year under head coach Bill Russo, the Leopards compiled a 3–8 record.[1] Dan Bengele, Craig Hansen and Todd Stahlnecker were the team captains.[2]

The Leopards were outscored 314 to 236. Lafayette's 2–4 conference record placed it in a three-way tie for fourth in the seven-team Patriot League standings.[3]

Lafayette played its home games at Fisher Field on College Hill in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 6 Fordham
L 0–23 4,103 [4]
September 13 at Army*
L 14–41 31,363 [5]
September 20 Bucknell
  • Fisher Field
  • Easton, PA
L 21–23 7,428 [6]
September 27 at Brown*
L 27–35 3,172 [7]
October 4 Columbia*
  • Fisher Field
  • Easton, PA
W 31–3 3,822 [8]
October 11 Colgate
  • Fisher Field
  • Easton, PA
L 6–44 3,098 [9]
October 18 at Cornell*
L 34–41 OT 4,812 [10]
October 25 Towsondagger
  • Fisher Field
  • Easton, PA
W 38–0 5,159 [11]
November 1 New Haven*
  • Fisher Field
  • Easton, PA
L 0–38 731 [12]
November 15 at Holy Cross
W 34–23 1,105 [13]
November 22 at Lehigh
L 31–43 14,393 [14]
  • *Non-conference game
  • daggerHomecoming

References
  1. "Lafayette Football 1987-2006". 2019 Lafayette Football Record Book (PDF). Easton, Pa.: Lafayette College. p. 105. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  2. "Team Captains 1882-2019". 2019 Lafayette Football Record Book (PDF). Easton, Pa.: Lafayette College. p. 97. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  3. "Football All-Time Year-by-Year Results". Patriot League Football Record Book (PDF). Center Valley, Pa.: Patriot League. 2020. p. 6. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  4. Meixell, Ted (September 7, 1997). "Lafayette Lays an Egg in Loss to Fordham". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C1 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Gross, Andrew (September 14, 1997). "Army Outclasses I-AA Lafayette". Rockland Journal-News. White Plains, N.Y. p. 11D – via Newspapers.com.
  6. Meixell, Ted (September 21, 1997). "Lafayette's Loss to Bucknell 79 Seconds Too Long". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C3 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Perry Paces Brown's Rebound to Beat Lafayette". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. September 28, 1997. p. C3 – via Newspapers.com. Attendance figure in "Ivy Summaries". Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. September 28, 1997. p. E19.
  8. Meixell, Ted (October 5, 1997). "Lafayette Puts It into Higher Gear to End Slide". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C3 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. Meixell, Ted (October 12, 1997). "Colgate's 41-Point First Half Buries Leopards". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C3 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. McShea, Keith (October 20, 1997). "Win Has Red Smiling Again". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, N.Y. p. 3B – via Newspapers.com.
  11. Meixell, Ted (October 26, 1997). "Lafayette Shuts Out Towson". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C1 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. Meixell, Ted (November 2, 1997). "Kosciolek Engineers New Haven's Romp Over Leopards". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C3 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. Burgin, Sandy (November 16, 1997). "Moore Than Enough: Lafayette Ace Pummels HC". Telegram & Gazette. Worcester, Mass. p. D1.
  14. Blockus, Gary R. (November 23, 1997). "Lehigh Engineers Great Comeback". The Morning Call. Allentown, Pa. p. C1 – via Newspapers.com.
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