1897 Week 5 College Football Team Rankings

September 28, 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	2	-0.076	Brown (BROWN)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	+1	Beat Tufts 24–0
2	16	-0.038	Pennsylvania (PENNSYLVANIA)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	+1	Beat Bucknell 17–0; Beat FRANKLIN & MARSHALL 33–0
3	6	0.228	Harvard (HARVARD)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Williams 20–0
4	3	0.910	Dartmouth (DARTMOUTH)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Exeter 34–0
5	-4	0.966	Amherst (AMHERST)	IND FBSI	0–0	0.000	15	0	BYE
6	-4	0.966	Army (ARMY)	IND FBSI	0–0	0.000	15	0	BYE
7	-2	0.966	Carlisle (CARLISLE)	IND FBSI	0–0	0.000	15	0	BYE
8	2	0.966	Illinois (ILLINOIS)	B10	0–0	0.000	15	0	BYE
9	3	0.966	Lehigh (LEHIGH)	IND FBSI	0–0	0.000	15	0	BYE
10	3	0.966	Michigan (MICHIGAN)	B10	0–0	0.000	15	0	BYE
11	4	0.966	Navy (NAVY)	IND FBSI	0–0	0.000	15	0	BYE
12	4	0.966	Northwestern (NORTHWESTERN)	B10	0–0	0.000	15	0	BYE
13	6	0.966	Princeton (PRINCETON)	IND FBSI	0–0	0.000	15	0	BYE
14	6	0.966	Purdue (PURDUE)	B10	0–0	0.000	15	0	BYE
15	6	0.966	Trinity (connecticut) (TRINITY (CONNECTICUT))	IND FBSI	0–0	0.000	15	0	BYE
16	7	0.966	Wesleyan (WESLEYAN)	IND FBSI	0–0	0.000	15	0	BYE
17	8	0.966	Wisconsin (WISCONSIN)	B10	0–0	0.000	15	0	BYE
18	8	0.966	Yale (YALE)	IND FBSI	0–0	0.000	15	0	BYE
19	-2	0.986	Penn State (PENN STATE)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Gettysburg 32–0
20	-6	1.366	Minnesota (MINNESOTA)	B10	1–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Minneapolis South High 22–0
21	6	1.618	Chicago (CHICAGO)	B10	3–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Englewood High 21–0; Beat HYDE PARK HIGH 11–0
22	-11	1.669	Lafayette (LAFAYETTE)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Bloomsburg 14–0
23	5	1.821	Dickinson (DICKINSON)	IND FBSI	2–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Susquehanna 18–0
24	-18	1.972	Cornell (CORNELL)	IND FBSI	1–0	1.000	1	0	Beat Colgate 6–0
25	-21	2.127	Bucknell (BUCKNELL)	IND FBSI	1–1	0.500	11	0	Lost to Pennsylvania 0–17; Beat WILLIAMSPORT 45–0
26	-4	3.861	Tufts (TUFTS)	IND FBSI	1–1	0.500	11	0	Lost to Brown 0–24; Beat BOWDOIN 18–6
27	-3	5.186	Williams (WILLIAMS)	IND FBSI	0–1	0.000	13	0	Lost to Harvard 0–20
28	-20	7.338	Franklin & Marshall (FRANKLIN & MARSHALL)	IND FBSI	0–1	0.000	13	0	Lost to Pennsylvania 0–33

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