1949 Colgate Red Raiders football team

The 1949 Colgate Red Raiders football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1949 college football season. In its third season under head coach Paul Bixler, the team compiled a 1–8 record and was outscored by a total of 291 to 186. Warren Davis was the team captain.^[1][2] The team played its home games at Colgate Athletic Field in Hamilton, New York.

1949 Colgate Red Raiders football
Conference	Independent
Record	1–8
Head coach	Paul Bixler (3rd season)
Captain	Warren Davis
Home stadium	Colgate Athletic Field
Seasons ← 1948 1950 →

1949 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Saint Vincent			–					10	–	0	–	0
No. 4 Army			–					9	–	0	–	0
Gannon			–					8	–	0	–	0
Trinity (CT)			–					8	–	0	–	0
Brown			–					8	–	1	–	0
No. 12 Cornell			–					8	–	1	–	0
No. 13 Villanova			–					8	–	1	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth			–					6	–	2	–	0
Buffalo			–					6	–	3	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					6	–	3	–	0
Princeton			–					6	–	3	–	0
Fordham			–					5	–	3	–	0
Tufts			–					5	–	3	–	1
Carnegie Tech			–					5	–	3	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	4	–	0
Temple			–					5	–	4	–	0
Penn			–					4	–	4	–	0
Yale			–					4	–	4	–	0
Boston College			–					4	–	4	–	1
Syracuse			–					4	–	5	–	0
Drexel			–					3	–	3	–	1
Duquesne			–					3	–	6	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					2	–	5	–	2
CCNY			–					2	–	5	–	1
NYU			–					3	–	6	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	7	–	0
Hofstra			–					1	–	5	–	1
Colgate			–					1	–	8	–	0
Harvard			–					1	–	8	–	0
Rankings from AP Poll

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 24	Buffalo	Colgate Athletic Field Hamilton, NY	W 32–0	15,000	[3]
October 1	at Cornell	Schoellkopf Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	L 27–29	20,000	[4]
October 8	Boston University	Colgate Athletic Field Hamilton, NY	L 21–40	7,800	[5]
October 15	at Dartmouth	Memorial Field Hanover, NH	L 13–27	8,000	[6]
October 22	Rutgers	Colgate Athletic Field Hamilton, NY	L 13–35	7,000	[7]
November 5	at Holy Cross	Fitton Field Worcester, MA	L 27–35	6,000	[8]
November 12	at Northwestern	Dyche Stadium Evanston, IL	L 20–39	40,000	[9]
November 19	at Syracuse	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY (rivalry)	L 7–35	36,232	[10]
November 24	at Brown	Brown Stadium Providence, RI	L 26–41	18,000	[11]