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American college football season

1917 Carlisle Indians football

Conference	Independent
Record	3–6
Head coach	Deed Harris (1st season)
Seasons← 1916

1917 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Pittsburgh			–					10	–	0	–	0
Williams			–					7	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					3	–	0	–	0
Princeton			–					2	–	0	–	0
Syracuse			–					8	–	1	–	1
Army			–					7	–	1	–	0
Rutgers			–					7	–	1	–	1
Penn			–					9	–	2	–	0
Brown			–					8	–	2	–	0
Fordham			–					7	–	2	–	0
Lehigh			–					7	–	2	–	0
Boston College			–					6	–	2	–	0
Swarthmore			–					6	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					7	–	3	–	0
Colgate			–					4	–	2	–	0
Harvard			–					3	–	1	–	3
New Hampshire			–					3	–	2	–	2
Dartmouth			–					5	–	3	–	0
Geneva			–					5	–	3	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	4	–	0
Buffalo			–					4	–	4	–	0
NYU			–					2	–	2	–	3
Tufts			–					3	–	3	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					2	–	3	–	1
Bucknell			–					3	–	5	–	1
Lafayette			–					3	–	5	–	0
Holy Cross			–					3	–	4	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					2	–	4	–	2
Carlisle			–					3	–	6	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	4	–	0
Delaware			–					2	–	5	–	0
Cornell			–					3	–	6	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					2	–	6	–	0
Villanova			–					0	–	3	–	2
Temple			–					0	–	6	–	1

The 1917 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as an independent during the 1917 college football season. Led by Deed Harris in his first and only season as head coach, the Indians compiled a record of 3–6.

Cartoon published in the Technique following Carlisle's loss to Georgia Tech

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 29	Albright	Carlisle, PA	W 60–0
October 6	Franklin & Marshall	Carlisle, PA	W 63–0
October 13	at West Virginia	Morgantown, WV	L 0–21
October 20	at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	L 0–61
October 27	Johns Hopkins	Carlisle, PA	W 15–7
November 3	at Bucknell	Lewisburg, PA	L 0–10
November 10	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	L 0–28
November 17	at Georgia Tech	Grant Field Atlanta, GA	L 0–98
November 24	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–26

References

"1917 Carlisle Indians Schedule and Results".
"Indians Swamp Albright In Opening Contest". Carlisle Evening Herald. Carlisle, Pennsylvania. October 1, 1917. p. 6. Retrieved May 1, 2021 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
"Indians defeated by West Virginia". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 14, 1917. Retrieved July 21, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
"Middies Have Merry Time With Carlisle Indians". New-York Tribune. New York, New York. October 21, 1917. p. 22. Retrieved May 1, 2021 – via Newspapers.com [REDACTED] .
"Bucknell Defeats Carlisle". The Pittsburgh Press. November 4, 1917. p. 34 – via Newspapers.com.

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Venues	Indian Field (1893–1917)
Culture & lore	1906 Vanderbilt game
Seasons	1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917

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