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1901 Carlisle Indians football
ConferenceIndependent
1901 record5–7–1
Head coachPop Warner (3rd season)
CaptainMartin Wheelock
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1901 college football independents records
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Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Harvard         12 0 0
Yale         11 1 1
California         9 0 1
Stetson         1 0 0
Cornell         11 1 0
Dartmouth         10 1 0
Massachusetts         9 1 0
Princeton         9 1 1
Notre Dame         8 1 1
Kentucky U.         7 1 1
Army         5 1 2
Connecticut         8 2 0
Virginia         8 2 0
Texas         8 2 1
Arizona         4 1 0
Washington Agricultural         4 1 0
Nebraska         7 2 0
Western U. of Penn         7 2 1
Lafayette         9 3 0
Utah         3 1 0
Penn         10 5 0
Gallaudet         4 2 2
William & Mary         2 1 1
Columbia         8 5 0
Baylor         5 3 0
Penn State         5 3 0
Ohio State         5 3 1
VMI         4 3 0
Washington         4 3 0
Navy         6 4 1
Stanford         3 2 2
Oklahoma         3 2 0
Drake         4 4 0
Detroit         3 3 0
Kansas State         3 4 1
Michigan Agricultural         3 4 1
Oregon         3 4 1
Carlisle         5 7 1
Montana         2 3 0
Oklahoma A&M         2 3 0
Villanova         2 3 0
Arkansas         3 5 0
Kansas         3 5 2
Furman         1 2 1
Texas A&M         1 4 0
Missouri         1 6 1
Maryland         1 7 0
Boston College         1 8 0
Florida Agricultural         0 1 0
Kendall         0 1 0
USC         0 1 0
Rhode Island         0 2 0
Rutgers         0 7 0

The 1901 Carlisle Indians football team was an American football that represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as an independent during the 1901 college football season. In its third season under head coach Pop Warner, Carlisle compiled a 5–7–1 record and was outscored by a total of 168 to 134.

Two Carlisle players received honors from Walter Camp on the 1901 All-America team: Martin Wheelock as a second-team tackle and Jimmy Johnson as a third-team quarterback.[1] Johnson was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1969.[2]

Carlisle was one of three Native American schools in 1901 to field football teams that competed in college football. The other two were Haskell (6–2) in Kansas and Chilocco (2–5) in the Oklahoma Territory.

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 21Lebanon Valley
W 28–0[3]
September 28Gallaudet
  • Indian Field
  • Carlisle, PA
W 19–6[4]
October 2GettysburgHarrisburg, PAL 5–6[5]
October 5vs. DickinsonCarlisle, PAW 16–11[6]
October 12vs. BucknellWilliamsport, PAW 6–55,000[7]
October 16[[{{{school}}}|Haverford]]
  • Indian Field
  • Carlisle, PA
W 29–0[8]
October 19at CornellBuffalo, NYL 0–1718,000[9]
October 26at Harvard
L 0–29[10]
November 2at Michigan
L 0–228,000[11]
November 9at NavyL 5–16[12]
November 16at PennL 14–1610,000[13]
November 23vs. Washington & JeffersonPittsburgh, PAT 0–0[14]
November 28at ColumbiaL 12–405,000[15]

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Season summary[]

Week 4: vs. Dickinson[]

Despite the 16 to 11 Carlisle victory,The Dickinsonian called it "the greatest day in the football history of Dickinson."[17]

Week 9: at Michigan[]

The national champion Michigan Wolverines defeated the Carlisle Indians, 22–0, in a game played at Bennett Park in Detroit on November 2. The game was watched by a crowd of 8,000 spectators that included China's Minister to the United States, Wu Ting-Fan, occupying a box with former United States Secretary of War, Russell A. Alger.[18]

Week 13: at Columbia[]

Carlisle at Columbia
by Quarter 1 2 3 4 Total
Carlisle 0 12 0 0 12
Columbia 17 23 0 0 40

The Columbia Lions rolled up their largest score of the season, defeating the Indians 40 to 12. It was 40 to 0 until the final five minutes.[19][20] Starring in the contest was Columbia's backfield of Bill Morley, Harold Weekes, Dick Smith, and Chauncey L. Berrien.

References[]

  1. "All-America Team of 1901". Spalding's Football Guide: 47. 1902. https://books.google.com/books?id=Xws7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved March 8, 2015. open access
  2. "Jimmy Johnson". College Football Hall of Fame. National Football Foundation. https://footballfoundation.org/hof_search.aspx?hof=1219. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
  3. "Carlisle's First Game: Indians Defeat Lebanon, 28 to 0--"Pop" Warner Has Large Number of Candidates from Whom to Select Team". The Boston Globe: p. 2. September 22, 1901. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29599915/carlisles_first_game_indians_defeat/.
  4. "Carlisle 19; Gallaudet 6". The Boston Globe: p. 7. September 29, 1901. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29599993/carlisle_19_gallaudet_6/.
  5. "Indians Lost: Redskin Warriors Beaten By Gettysburg Men". The Harrisburg Telegraph: p. 6. October 3, 1901. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29600128/indians_lost_redskin_warriors_beaten/.
  6. "Indians Win: Dickinson Goes Down Before the Red Man's Line". Carlisle Daily Herald: p. 1. October 6, 1901. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29600251/indians_win_dickinson_goes_down_before/.
  7. "Indians Won From Bucknell Because They Kicked Goal". The Philadelphia Inquirer: p. 11. October 13, 1901. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29600389/indians_won_from_bucknell_because_they/.
  8. "Indians, 29; Haverford, 0". Harrisbug Star-Independent: p. 4. October 17, 1901. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29600488/indians_29_haverford_0/.
  9. "Cornell, I Yell!! Carlisle's football Braves met with Defeat from white Brothers". The Illustrated Buffalo Express: p. 9. October 20, 1901. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16917837/cornell_i_yell_carlisles_football/.
  10. "Indians Dangerous Only Once: By a Run, and a Series of Rushes, They Get Within Harvard's Eight-Yard Line". The Boston Sunday Globe: pp. 1-2. October 27, 1901. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29425090/indians_dangerous_only_once_by_a_run/.
  11. "Red Men Fell Before U. of M.: Maize and Blue Scored Three Touchdowns and Goal From Field; Carlisle Put Up Great Defensive Game, But Failed To Make a Point (part 1)". Detroit Free Press: p. 1. November 3, 1901. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6620399/red_men_fell_before_u_of_m/.
  12. "Annapolis 16, Carlisle 5: Sailor Boys Redeem Themselves in Second Half". The Minneapolis Tribune: p. 2. November 10, 1901. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29597949/annapolis_16_carlisle_5/.
  13. "Pennsylvania Battles Hard And Wins From Indians, 16 To 14". The Philadelphia Inquirer: p. 13. November 17, 1901. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29586738/pennsylvania_battles_hard_and_wins_from/.
  14. "Wash.-Jeff. and Indians Fought to a Standstill: Neither Team Could Score". The Pittsburgh Gazette: p. 13. November 24, 1901. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29600637/washjeff_and_indians_fought_to_a/.
  15. "Columbia Beats Indians: Carlisle School Football Team Scores in Sensational Plays". The New York Times: p. 9. November 29, 1901. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29364389/columbia_beats_indians_carlisle_school/.
  16. "1901 Carlisle Indian Schedule and Results". https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/carlisle/1901-schedule.html.
  17. "Indians 16-Dickinson 11". The Dickinsonian (5): p. 1. October 11, 1901. http://deila.dickinson.edu/cdm/ref/collection/dickinsonia/id/22220.
  18. "Michigan 22, Carlisle 0" (PDF). The New York Times. 1901-11-03. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1901/11/03/102628862.pdf. Retrieved 12 March 2010.
  19. "Carlisle Indians Lose". San Francisco Call 90 (182). November 29, 1901. http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19011129.2.10.1.1#.
  20. "Columbia, 40 - Carlisle 12". Columbia Daily Spectator 45 (16). December 3, 1901. http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19011203-01.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------#.
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