1916 Fordham Maroon football team

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1916 Fordham Maroon football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6-1-1
Head coach
CaptainJames Butler
Home stadiumFordham Field
Seasons
← 1915
1917 →
1916 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Army     9 0 0
Pittsburgh     8 0 0
Brown     8 1 0
Colgate     8 1 0
Yale     8 1 0
Fordham     6 1 1
Swarthmore     6 1 1
Penn State     8 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 2 0
Boston College     6 2 0
Cornell     6 2 0
Princeton     6 2 0
Lehigh     6 2 1
Dartmouth     5 2 2
Harvard     7 3 0
Penn     7 3 1
Temple     3 1 2
Tufts     5 3 0
Carnegie Tech     4 3 0
Rutgers     3 2 2
NYU     4 3 1
Syracuse     5 4 0
Holy Cross     4 5 0
Vermont     4 5 0
Rhode Island State     3 4 1
Geneva     2 5 2
Carlisle     1 3 1
Lafayette     2 6 1
Bucknell     3 9 0
Columbia     1 5 2
Franklin & Marshall     1 7 0
Villanova     1 8 0

The 1916 Fordham Maroon football team was an American football team that represented Fordham University as an independent during the 1916 college football season. Under first-year head coach Frank Gargan, Fordham finished with a 6-1–1 record.[1] The game that is listed against "Georgetown" does not appear in the sports reference's 1916 georgetown football schedule, so one can infer that the game was actually played against the Georgetown JV/Freshmen Team.[2]

Schedule[edit]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30at Lafayette
T 0–0[3]
October 7Western Maryland
W 20–0[4]
October 12USS Texas
  • Fordham Field
  • Bronx, NY
W 22–03,000[5][6]
October 21Susquehanna
  • Fordham Field
  • Bronx, NY
W 47–0[7]


November 7Georgetown JV?
  • Fordham Field
  • Bronx, NY
L 0–13[8]


November 18at Holy CrossW 40–0[9]
November 25Gallaudet
  • Fordham Field
  • Bronx, NY
W 68–0[10]
November 30Villanova
  • Fordham Field
  • Bronx, NY
W 14–7[11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ http://www.luckyshow.org/football/Fordham%20football%20records.htm
  2. ^ https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/georgetown/1916-schedule.html
  3. ^ "Fordham in Scoreless Tie". The New York Times. October 1, 1916 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Fordham Gridders Take Opening Tilt". The Sun. October 8, 1916. p. II-4 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Fordham Eleven Defeats Sailors From The Texas". New York Tribune. October 13, 1916 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Free Gate Draws Big Crowd to Fordham". New York Herald. October 13, 1916. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Fordham Swamps Susquehanna Team". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 22, 1916 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Georgetown Beats Fordham". The New York Times. November 8, 1916. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Fordham Buries Holy Cross, 40 to 0". The Sun. November 19, 1916 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Fordham Swamps Gallaudet Eleven". The New York Times. November 26, 1916 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Fordham Sinks Villanova in Battle of Mud". New York Tribune. December 1, 1916 – via Newspapers.com.