1903 Lafayette football team

1903 Lafayette football
Conference	Independent
Record	7–3
Head coach	Alfred E. Bull (1st season)
Captain	John Ernst
Home stadium	March Field

1903 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					11	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					11	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–					9	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					9	–	1	–	0
Geneva			–					9	–	1	–	0
Holy Cross			–					8	–	2	–	0
Temple			–					4	–	1	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					8	–	2	–	0
Lehigh			–					9	–	2	–	1
Harvard			–					9	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					9	–	3	–	0
Army			–					6	–	2	–	1
Carlisle			–					6	–	2	–	1
Amherst			–					7	–	3	–	0
Lafayette			–					7	–	3	–	0
Cornell			–					6	–	3	–	1
Colgate			–					4	–	2	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	3	–	0
Swarthmore			–					6	–	4	–	0
Brown			–					5	–	4	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					1	–	1	–	0
Frankin & Marshall			–					5	–	5	–	1
Buffalo			–					4	–	4	–	0
Rutgers			–					4	–	4	–	1
Delaware			–					4	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					2	–	2	–	0
Bucknell			–					4	–	5	–	0
Vermont			–					4	–	5	–	0
Tufts			–					5	–	8	–	0
Wesleyan			–					3	–	6	–	1
Springfield Training School			–					1	–	3	–	1
NYU			–					2	–	5	–	0
New Hampshire			–					2	–	6	–	1
Pittsburgh College			–					1	–	5	–	1
Western U. Penn.			–					1	–	8	–	1

The 1903 Lafayette football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In its first season under head coach Alfred E. Bull, the team compiled a 7–3 record.^[1][2] John Ernst was the team captain.^[3] The team played its home games at March Field in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 26	Gallaudet		W 36–0
October 3	Gettysburg		W 11–0
October 10	Susquehanna		W 43–0
October 17	Fordham		W 48–0
October 24	at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	W 6–5
October 31	at NYU	Ohio Field Bronx, NY	W 8–6	[4]
November 7	at Princeton	University Field Princeton, NJ	L 0–11	[5]
November 14	Bloomsburg Normal		W 29–0
November 21	at Lehigh	Bethlehem, PA	L 6–12
November 26	Dickinson	March Field Easton, PA	L 0–35	[6]

References

1. "2018 Lafayette Football Media Guide" (PDF). Lafayette University. p. 124. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
2. "1903 Lafayette Leopards Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
3. "Football Captains". Lafayette University. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
4. "Lafayette wins". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 1, 1903. p. 13. Retrieved February 3, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Princeton, 11; Lafayette, 0". The New York Times. November 8, 1903. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
6. "Dickinson Wins by a Big Score: Carlisle Collegians Defeat Lafayette Eleven on March Field, 35 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 27, 1903. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.