1912 Lafayette football team

1912 Lafayette football
Conference	Independent
Record	4–5–1
Head coach	George McCaa (1st season)
Captain	Howard Benson
Home stadium	March Field

1912 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					9	–	0	–	0
Penn State			–					8	–	0	–	0
Carlisle			–					12	–	1	–	1
Maine			–					7	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	1
Swarthmore			–					7	–	1	–	1
Yale			–					7	–	1	–	1
Lehigh			–					9	–	2	–	0
Dartmouth			–					7	–	2	–	0
Wesleyan			–					7	–	2	–	0
Colgate			–					5	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					8	–	3	–	1
Rhode Island State			–					6	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	3	–	1
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	0
Penn			–					7	–	4	–	0
Army			–					5	–	3	–	0
Brown			–					6	–	4	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					6	–	4	–	0
Holy Cross			–					4	–	3	–	1
Rutgers			–					5	–	4	–	0
Tufts			–					5	–	4	–	0
Fordham			–					4	–	4	–	0
Villanova			–					3	–	3	–	0
Morris Harvey			–					2	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					4	–	5	–	1
Syracuse			–					4	–	5	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	4	–	1
New Hampshire			–					3	–	4	–	1
Geneva			–					3	–	4	–	0
Vermont			–					3	–	5	–	0
Pittsburgh			–					3	–	6	–	0
Boston College			–					2	–	4	–	1
Cornell			–					3	–	7	–	0
NYU			–					2	–	6	–	0

The 1912 Lafayette football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1912 college football season. In its first season under head coach George McCaa, the team compiled an 4–5–1 record.^[1] Howard Benson was the team captain.^[2] The team played its home games at March Field in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
September 28	Muhlenberg	March Field Easton, PA	W 20–3
October 5	Swarthmore	March Field Easton, PA	L 0–22	[3]
October 12	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 0–16
October 19	Ursinus	March Field Easton, PA	W 11–0
October 26	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 7–3
November 2	Bucknell	March Field Easton, PA	T 0–0
November 9	Syracuse	March Field Easton, PA	L 7–30
November 16	at Brown	Andrews Field Providence, RI	L 7–21
November 23	Lehigh	March Field Easton, PA (rivalry)	L 0–7
November 28	Dickinson	March Field Easton, PA	W 19–13

References

1. "2018 Lafayette Football Media Guide" (PDF). Lafayette University. p. 125. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
2. "Football Captains". Lafayette University. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
3. "Swarthmore Won From Lafayette". The Morning Call. October 7, 1912. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.