1897 Week 13 College Football Team Rankings

November 23, 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	1	0.360	Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA)	IND FBSI	14–0	1.000	1	+51	Beat Harvard 15–6
2	-1	0.380	Princeton (PRINCETON)	IND FBSI	10–1	0.909	3	+35	Lost to Yale 0–6
3	1	0.961	Michigan (MICHIGAN)	B10	6–0–1	0.929	2	+9	Beat Wittenberg 32–0
4	-1	1.030	Harvard (HARVARD)	IND FBSI	10–1–1	0.875	7	+29	Lost to Pennsylvania 6–15
5	1	1.041	Yale (YALE)	IND FBSI	9–0–2	0.909	3	+32	Beat Princeton 6–0
6	1	1.108	Army (ARMY)	IND FBSI	6–1–1	0.813	9	+23	Beat Brown 42–0
7	1	1.262	Chicago (CHICAGO)	B10	10–1	0.909	3	+9	BYE
8	-3	1.709	Wisconsin (WISCONSIN)	B10	8–1	0.889	6	+14	Lost to Wisconsin Alumni 0–6
9	2	2.036	Lafayette (LAFAYETTE)	IND FBSI	8–2–1	0.773	10	+18	Beat Wesleyan 41–6
10	-1	2.065	Illinois (ILLINOIS)	B10	5–2	0.714	11	0	Lost to Carlisle 6–23
11	-1	2.137	Cornell (CORNELL)	IND FBSI	5–2–1	0.688	13	+8	BYE
12	0	2.231	Navy (NAVY)	IND FBSI	6–1	0.857	8	+5	Beat Lehigh 28–6
13	1	2.250	Carlisle (CARLISLE)	IND FBSI	4–4	0.500	18	+6	Beat Illinois 23–6
14	1	2.803	Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH)	IND FBSI	4–3	0.571	17	+1	Beat Newton A.c. 24–0
15	-2	3.217	Brown (BROWN)	IND FBSI	6–4	0.600	16	+13	Lost to Army 0–42
16	0	3.452	Northwestern (NORTHWESTERN)	B10	5–2	0.714	11	-1	BYE
17	3	3.650	Dickinson (DICKINSON)	IND FBSI	6–3–2	0.636	14	-10	Beat Franklin & Marshall 42–0
18	3	4.095	Purdue (PURDUE)	B10	5–3	0.625	15	+2	Beat Minnesota 6–0
19	0	4.410	Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT))	IND FBSI	4–4–1	0.500	18	-11	Tied Connecticut Waterbury 0–0
20	-3	4.530	Minnesota (MINNESOTA)	B10	4–4	0.500	18	-4	Lost to Purdue 0–6
21	1	4.620	Bucknell (BUCKNELL)	IND FBSI	3–3–1	0.500	18	-2	BYE
22	-4	5.001	Wesleyan (WESLEYAN)	IND FBSI	5–6	0.455	23	+1	Lost to Lafayette 6–41
23	1	5.642	Penn State (PENN STATE)	IND FBSI	3–5	0.375	24	-3	Beat Bloomsburg 10–0
24	-1	5.648	Tufts (TUFTS)	IND FBSI	6–6	0.500	18	-3	BYE
25	0	6.967	Lehigh (LEHIGH)	IND FBSI	3–6	0.333	25	-1	Lost to Navy 6–28
26	0	9.054	Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL)	IND FBSI	2–6–1	0.278	27	-6	Lost to Dickinson 0–42
27	0	9.109	Amherst (AMHERST)	IND FBSI	2–6–2	0.300	26	-20	Beat M.i.t. 8–6
28	0	11.274	Williams (WILLIAMS)	IND FBSI	1–7–1	0.167	28	-18	Beat Troy Laureates 6–0

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