1896 Colgate football team

American college football season

1896 Colgate football
Conference	Independent
Record	3–4–1
Head coach	Joseph Colnon (1st season)
Captain	Warwick Ford
Seasons ← 1895 1897 →

1896 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Fordham			–					1	–	0	–	0
Lafayette			–					11	–	0	–	1
Princeton			–					10	–	0	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					8	–	0	–	1
Penn			–					14	–	1	–	0
Yale			–					13	–	1	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					11	–	2	–	0
Buffalo			–					9	–	1	–	2
Villanova			–					10	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					5	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					7	–	4	–	0
Boston College			–					5	–	3	–	0
Storrs			–					5	–	3	–	0
Cornell			–					5	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	3	–	2
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	0
Army			–					3	–	2	–	1
Rutgers			–					6	–	6	–	0
Carlisle			–					5	–	5	–	0
Holy Cross			–					2	–	2	–	2
Brown			–					4	–	5	–	1
Wesleyan			–					4	–	5	–	1
Frankin & Marshall			–					3	–	4	–	2
Geneva			–					3	–	4	–	0
Penn State			–					3	–	4	–	0
Colgate			–					3	–	4	–	1
Amherst			–					3	–	6	–	1
Western Univ. Penn.			–					3	–	6	–	0
Lehigh			–					2	–	5	–	0
Tufts			–					2	–	6	–	1
Swarthmore			–					2	–	6	–	0
New Hampshire			–					1	–	4	–	0
Drexel			–					1	–	5	–	0
Massachusetts			–					0	–	4	–	0
Rhode Island			–					0	–	4	–	0

The 1896 Colgate football team represented Colgate University in the 1896 college football season. The team captain for the 1896 season was Warwick Ford.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 26	at Cornell	Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	L 0–6
October 10	at Williams	Williamstown, MA	L 0–4
	Syracuse AA	Hamilton, NY	W 34–0
October 24	Syracuse	Syracuse, NY (rivalry)	W 6–0
October 31	at Clyde AA	Hamilton, NY	L 6–10
	at Hobart	Auburn, NY	W 6–0
	at Rochester	Rochester, NY	T 0–0
November 26	at Elmira AA	Elmira, NY	L 0–10

References

^ "Reference at gocolgateraiders.com.s3.amazonaws.com" (PDF).
^ "1896 Colgate Game-by-Game Records". Archived from the original on January 8, 2017. Retrieved January 7, 2017., College Football Data Warehouse, retrieved January 7, 2017.

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