1897 Week 12 College Football Team Rankings

November 16, 1897By PowerUpRankings.com • Posted in 1897 Season Tags: • No Comments

1897 rankings calculated with the Classic formula (Ken's 2016-based hybrid, applied retroactively); records, NOW and game results come from James Howell's historical college football score archive.

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Rank	Change	Rating	Team	Conf	Record	Win %	Place	NOW	Game Status
1	0	0.262	Princeton (PRINCETON)	IND FBSI	10–0	1.000	1	+30	BYE
2	0	0.385	Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA)	IND FBSI	13–0	1.000	1	+37	Beat Wesleyan 22–0
3	0	0.766	Harvard (HARVARD)	IND FBSI	10–0–1	0.955	4	+25	Tied Yale 0–0
4	1	0.941	Michigan (MICHIGAN)	B10	5–0–1	0.917	5	+8	Beat Minnesota 14–0
5	3	1.015	Wisconsin (WISCONSIN)	B10	8–0	1.000	1	+14	Beat Chicago 23–8
6	1	1.152	Yale (YALE)	IND FBSI	8–0–2	0.900	7	+19	Tied Harvard 0–0
7	-1	1.220	Army (ARMY)	IND FBSI	5–1–1	0.786	10	+18	Beat Stevens 18–4
8	-4	1.309	Chicago (CHICAGO)	B10	10–1	0.909	6	+10	Lost to Wisconsin 8–23
9	0	1.372	Illinois (ILLINOIS)	B10	5–1	0.833	8	+3	Beat Knox 64–0
10	1	2.089	Cornell (CORNELL)	IND FBSI	5–2–1	0.688	13	+8	BYE
11	1	2.233	Lafayette (LAFAYETTE)	IND FBSI	7–2–1	0.750	11	+12	Beat Dickinson 19–0
12	2	2.378	Navy (NAVY)	IND FBSI	5–1	0.833	8	+2	Beat Maryland Baltimore 38–0
13	0	2.527	Brown (BROWN)	IND FBSI	6–3	0.667	14	+14	Beat Carlisle 18–14
14	-4	2.822	Carlisle (CARLISLE)	IND FBSI	3–4	0.429	23	+2	Lost to Brown 14–18
15	3	2.845	Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH)	IND FBSI	3–3	0.500	18	+1	Beat Williams 52–0
16	3	3.562	Northwestern (NORTHWESTERN)	B10	5–2	0.714	12	-1	Beat Northwestern Alumni 25–0
17	-1	3.847	Minnesota (MINNESOTA)	B10	4–3	0.571	16	0	Lost to Michigan 0–14
18	3	4.126	Wesleyan (WESLEYAN)	IND FBSI	5–5	0.500	18	+2	Beat Trinity (CONNECTICUT) 6–4; Lost to PENNSYLVANIA 0–22
19	1	4.315	Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT))	IND FBSI	4–4	0.500	18	-11	Lost to Wesleyan 4–6
20	-3	4.333	Dickinson (DICKINSON)	IND FBSI	5–3–2	0.600	15	-11	Lost to Lafayette 0–19
21	1	4.579	Purdue (PURDUE)	B10	4–3	0.571	16	-1	Beat Missouri 30–12
22	-7	4.623	Bucknell (BUCKNELL)	IND FBSI	3–3–1	0.500	18	-2	Lost to Penn State 4–27
23	0	5.633	Tufts (TUFTS)	IND FBSI	6–6	0.500	18	-2	Beat M.i.t. 6–0
24	1	6.186	Penn State (PENN STATE)	IND FBSI	2–5	0.286	26	-2	Beat Bucknell 27–4
25	-1	6.579	Lehigh (LEHIGH)	IND FBSI	3–5	0.375	24	-1	Beat NEW York University 42–0
26	0	8.229	Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL)	IND FBSI	2–5–1	0.313	25	-2	Tied Pennsylvania Reserves 2–2
27	0	9.953	Amherst (AMHERST)	IND FBSI	1–6–2	0.222	27	-17	Tied Holy Cross 6–6
28	0	12.794	Williams (WILLIAMS)	IND FBSI	0–7–1	0.063	28	-15	Lost to Dartmouth 0–52

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