1897 college football season

1897 college football season
Total # of teams	28
Number of bowls	0
Champions	Penn Quakers Yale Bulldogs
College football seasons « 1896 1898 »

The 1897 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Penn and Yale as having been selected national champions.

Conference and program changes

School	1896 Conference	1897 Conference
Arizona Normal Football	Program Established	Independent
Central Colonels	Independent	SIAA
Gallaudet Bison	Independent	MIFA

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1897 Western Conference football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Wisconsin $ 3 – 0 – 0     9 – 1 – 0 Chicago 3 – 1 – 0     11 – 1 – 0 Michigan 2 – 1 – 0     6 – 1 – 1 Illinois 1 – 1 – 0     6 – 2 – 0 Purdue 1 – 2 – 0     5 – 3 – 1 Northwestern 0 – 2 – 0     5 – 3 – 0 Minnesota 0 – 3 – 0     4 – 4 – 0 $ – Conference champion

1897 Western Interstate football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Nebraska $ 3 – 0 – 0     5 – 1 – 0 Kansas 2 – 1 – 0     8 – 2 – 0 Iowa 0 – 2 – 0     4 – 4 – 0 Missouri 0 – 2 – 0     5 – 6 – 0 $ – Conference champion

1897 Triangular Football League standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Dartmouth $ 2 – 0 – 0     4 – 3 – 0 Amherst 0 – 1 – 1     2 – 6 – 2 Williams 0 – 1 – 1     1 – 7 – 1 $ – Conference champion

1897 SIAA football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Vanderbilt $ 3 – 0 – 0     6 – 0 – 1 Georgia 2 – 0 – 0     2 – 1 – 0 Auburn 2 – 0 – 1     2 – 0 – 1 North Carolina 3 – 1 – 0     7 – 3 – 0 Tennessee 1 – 1 – 0     4 – 1 – 0 Central 1 – 1 – 0     1 – 1 – 0 Nashville 1 – 1 – 0     1 – 1 – 0 Sewanee 1 – 3 – 1     1 – 3 – 1 Clemson 0 – 2 – 0     2 – 2 – 0 Kentucky 0 – 2 – 0     2 – 4 – 0 Georgia Tech 0 – 1 – 0     0 – 1 – 0 Cumberland 0 – 1 – 0     0 – 1 – 0 Mercer 0 – 1 – 0     0 – 1 – 1 Texas 0 – 0 – 0     6 – 2 – 0 Alabama 0 – 0 – 0     1 – 0 – 0 LSU 0 – 0 – 0     1 – 1 – 0 $ – Conference champion

See also

• 1897 College Football All-America Team