1897 Brown Bears football team

American college football season

1897 Brown Bears football

Conference| Independent
Record| 7–4
Head coach|

* Wallace Moyle (3rd season)

Captain| Dave Fultz
Home stadium| Adelaide Park

Seasons

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1898 ->

1897 Eastern college football independents records

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Team | W |  | L |  | T |  |  | W |  | L |  | T
Penn |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 15  | - | 0  | - | 0
Princeton |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 10  | - | 1  | - | 0
Washington & Jefferson |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 10  | - | 1  | - | 0
Yale |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 9  | - | 0  | - | 2
Buffalo |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 9  | - | 1  | - | 0
Harvard |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 10  | - | 1  | - | 1
Army |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 6  | - | 1  | - | 1
Vermont |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 0  | - | 2
Lafayette |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 9  | - | 2  | - | 1
Drexel |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 6  | - | 2  | - | 1
Colgate |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 2  | - | 1
Dickinson |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 7  | - | 3  | - | 2
Swarthmore |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 7  | - | 3  | - | 2
Fordham |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 1  | - | 1
Cornell |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 3  | - | 1
Syracuse |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 5  | - | 3  | - | 1
Brown |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 7  | - | 4  | - | 0
Carlisle |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 6  | - | 4  | - | 0
Boston College |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 3  | - | 0
Holy Cross |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 3  | - | 1
Bucknell |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 3  | - | 1
NYU |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 3  | - | 0
Temple |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 3  | - | 0
Trinity (CT) |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 4  | - | 4  | - | 1
Wesleyan |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 6  | - | 6  | - | 0
Tufts |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 6  | - | 7  | - | 0
Geneva |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 4  | - | 1
Pittsburgh College |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 5  | - | 2
Villanova |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 5  | - | 1
Penn State |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 6  | - | 0
Amherst |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 6  | - | 2
Frankin & Marshall |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 6  | - | 2
Lehigh |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 3  | - | 7  | - | 0
New Hampshire |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 5  | - | 0
Rutgers |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 2  | - | 5  | - | 0
Western Univ. Penn. |  |  | - |  |  |  |  | 1  | - | 3  | - | 0

The 1897 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University during the 1897 college football season.[1] Led by Wallace Moyle in his third and final season as head coach, Brown compiled a record of 7–4. The team's captain was Dave Fultz.

## Schedule

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Date| Time| Opponent| Site| Result| Attendance| Source

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October 2| | Tufts| Providence, RI| W 24–0| | [2]
October 9| | Boston University|

* Adelaide Park
* Providence, RI

| W 44–0| | [3]
October 13| | at Phillips Academy| Andover, MA| W 20–4| | [4]
October 16| | Wesleyan|

* Adelaide Park
* Providence, RI

| W 24–12| | [5]
October 20| | at Yale|

* Yale Field
* New Haven, CT

| L 14–18| 2,000| [6]
October 23| | at Harvard|

* Soldiers' Field
* Boston, MA

| L 0–18| 8,000| [7][8]
October 30| | Penn|

* Adelaide Park
* Providence, RI

| L 0–40| | [9]
November 6| | at Newton Athletic Association| Newton Centre, MA| W 24–0| | [10]
November 13| | vs. Carlisle|

* Polo Grounds
* New York, NY

| W 18–14| 1,500–3,000| [11][12]
November 20| 2:55 p.m.| at Army|

* The Plain
* West Point, NY

| L 0–42| 2,000| [13][14]
November 25| | Wesleyan|

* Adelaide Park
* Providence, RI

| W 12–4| 2,000| [15]

## References

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1. ^ "Brown Bears Football Media Guide" (PDF). brownbears.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 25, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
2. ^ "Brown 24, Tufts 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 3, 1897. p. 2. Retrieved March 11, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
3. ^ "Brown 44, Boston University 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 10, 1897. p. 4. Retrieved March 11, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
4. ^ "Brown 20, Andover 4". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 14, 1897. p. 9. Retrieved March 11, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
5. ^ "Brown 24, Wesleyan 12". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 17, 1897. p. 4. Retrieved March 11, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
6. ^ "On The Football Field". The Meridien Daily Journal. Meriden, Connecticut. October 21, 1897. p. 7. Retrieved March 11, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
7. ^ "Fierce Onslaughts: Brown's Line Was Unable to Withstand Harvard's Determined Rushes". The Boston Globe. October 24, 1897. p. 1 - via NewspaperARCHIVE.(attendance 8,000 at Soldiers Field)
8. ^ "Harvard's Football Giants Keep Brown From Scoring: Crimson's Men Piled Up 18 Points, and Their Line Was Impenetrable". Boston Post. October 24, 1897. pp. 1, 3 - via NewspaperARCHIVE.
9. ^ "And Now The Great Brown Team Falls Before Penn To The Tune Of 40 Points". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 31, 1897. p. 10. Retrieved March 11, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
10. ^ "All In One Half". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 7, 1897. p. 20. Retrieved March 11, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
11. ^ "Brown Kicks To Victory". The Sun. New York, New York. November 14, 1897. p. 8. Retrieved March 11, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
12. ^ "Brown 18, Carlisle 14". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 14, 1897. p. 6. Retrieved March 11, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
13. ^ "West Point Cadets Beat Brown, 42 to 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, New York. November 21, 1897. p. 8. Retrieved March 11, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
14. ^ "Easy For West Point". The Sun. New York, New York. November 21, 1897. p. 3. Retrieved March 11, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .
15. ^ "Brown Wins Another". The Buffalo Courier-Record. Buffalo, New York. November 26, 1897. p. 7. Retrieved March 11, 2022 - via Newspapers.com .

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