1901 Carlisle Indians football team

1901 Carlisle Indians football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–7–1
Head coach	Pop Warner (3rd season)
Captain	Martin Wheelock
Home stadium	Indian Field

1901 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					12	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					11	–	1	–	1
Cornell			–					11	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					10	–	1	–	0
Massachusetts			–					9	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					9	–	1	–	1
Syracuse			–					7	–	1	–	0
Holy Cross			–					7	–	1	–	1
Geneva			–					6	–	1	–	1
Army			–					5	–	1	–	2
Western U. of Penn			–					7	–	2	–	1
Lafayette			–					9	–	3	–	0
Swarthmore			–					8	–	2	–	2
Washington & Jefferson			–					6	–	2	–	2
Frankin & Marshall			–					7	–	3	–	1
Penn			–					10	–	5	–	0
Buffalo			–					4	–	2	–	0
Columbia			–					8	–	5	–	0
Fordham			–					2	–	1	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	3	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					3	–	2	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	0
NYU			–					4	–	3	–	1
Tufts			–					6	–	6	–	1
Vermont			–					5	–	5	–	1
Dickinson			–					3	–	4	–	0
Carlisle			–					5	–	7	–	1
Brown			–					4	–	7	–	1
Villanova			–					2	–	3	–	0
Drexel			–					2	–	5	–	1
Colgate			–					2	–	5	–	0
Boston College			–					1	–	8	–	0
Lehigh			–					1	–	11	–	0
New Hampshire			–					0	–	6	–	0
Rutgers			–					0	–	7	–	0

The 1901 Carlisle Indians football team represented the Carlisle Indian Industrial School as an independent during the 1901 college football season. Led by third-year head coach Pop Warner, the Indians 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. Johnson was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1969.

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

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 21		Lebanon Valley	Indian Field Carlisle, PA	W 28–0
September 28		Gallaudet	Indian Field Carlisle, PA	W 19–6
October 2		Gettysburg	Harrisburg, PA	L 5–6
October 5	3:00 p.m.	at Dickinson	Dickinson's gridiron Carlisle, PA	W 16–11	2,000
October 12		vs. Bucknell	Williamsport, PA	W 6–5	5,000
October 16		Haverford	Indian Field Carlisle, PA	W 29–0
October 19		at Cornell	Stadium of the Pan-American Exposition Buffalo, NY	L 0–17	18,000
October 26		at Harvard	Soldier's Field Boston, MA	L 0–29
November 2		at Michigan	Bennett Park Detroit, MI	L 0–22	8,000
November 9		at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	L 5–16
November 16		at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 14–16	10,000
November 23		vs. Washington & Jefferson	Exposition Park Allegheny City, PA	T 0–0	1,500
November 28		at Columbia	Polo Grounds New York, NY	L 12–40	5,000

Game summaries

Week 4: vs. Dickinson

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

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.

Week 13: at Columbia

Carlisle at Columbia

1 2 Total Carlisle 0 12 12 • Columbia 17 23 40 Date: November 28, 1901 Location: Polo Grounds •New York, NY Game attendance: 6,000 Referee: J. C. McCracken (Penn)

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. Starring in the contest was Columbia's backfield of Bill Morley, Harold Weekes, Dick Smith, and Chauncey L. Berrien.