1917 Fordham Maroon football team

The 1917 Fordham Maroon football team was an American football team that represented Fordham University as an independent during the 1917 college football season. Fordham claims a 22–3 record.^[1]: 156 College Football Data Warehouse (CFDW) lists the team's record at 7–2.^[2] Opponents recognized by CFDW are displayed in bold in the schedule chart below.

1917 Fordham Maroon football
Conference	Independent
Record	22–3 / 7–2
Head coach	Frank Gargan & Frank McCaffrey (1st season)
Captains	Bulger Lowe James Conklin James Kendricks
Home stadium	Fordham Field
Seasons ← 1916 1918 →

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

Frank Gargan and Frank McCaffrey were the team's coaches. Left halfback Frankie Frisch, known as "The Fordham Flash", led the team on offense. He later played for 19 years in Major League Baseball from 1919 to 1937 and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Bulger Lowe played his only season with the University^[1]: 167 as a tackle^[3] and was one of the team captains,^[1]: 12 becoming the first player from the school to play pro-football when in 1920, he was drafted.^[1]: 12

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 29		Fort Wadsworth	Fordham Field Bronx, NY	W 35–0	[4]
October 5		vs. U.S. Ambulance Corps	Muhlenberg Field Allentown, PA	W 19–7	[5]
October 13		Norwich	Fordham Field Bronx, NY	W 60–0	[6]
October 20		Holy Cross	Fordham Field Bronx, NY (rivalry)	W 12–0	[7]
October 27		Rutgers	Fordham Field Bronx, NY	L 0–28	[8][9]
November 6	2:30 p.m.	Georgetown	Fordham Field Bronx, NY	L 0–12	[10][11]
November 17		at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY	W 27–6
November 24		Pelham Bay 3rd Naval District	Fordham Field Bronx, NY	W 28–0	[12]
November 29		Camp Upton	Fordham Field Bronx, NY	W 35–0	[13]
		USS Arkansas		W 35–0
		USS Texas		W 30–0
		USS Wyoming		W 14–0
		US Training Station, Bayshore		W 10–7
		Mitchell Field Aviators		L 0–7
		Camp Upton		W 42–10
		Camp Merritt		W 10–7
		302nd Engineers		W 35–13
		Army Plebes		W 10–6
		Fort HG Wright		W 21–0
		Fort HG Wright		W 10–7