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1929 Colgate football team

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1929 Colgate football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1
Head coach
CaptainJohn Cox
Home stadiumWhitnall Field
Seasons
← 1928
1930 →
1929 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
No. 3 Pittsburgh     9 1 0
Colgate     8 1 0
Fordham     7 0 2
Bucknell     8 2 0
No. 11 Penn     7 2 0
Boston College     7 2 1
Villanova     7 2 1
Cornell     6 2 0
Tufts     5 1 2
Harvard     5 2 1
Yale     5 2 1
NYU     7 3 0
Franklin & Marshall     6 3 0
Penn State     6 3 0
Syracuse     6 3 0
Washington & Jefferson     5 2 2
Drexel     6 3 1
Temple     6 3 1
Carnegie Tech     5 3 1
Army     6 4 1
Providence     3 3 2
Brown     5 5 0
Columbia     4 5 0
CCNY     2 4 2
Princeton     2 4 1
Boston University     3 6 0
Vermont     2 7 0
Rankings from Dickinson System

The 1929 Colgate football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1929 college football season. In its first season under head coach Andrew Kerr, the team compiled an 8–1 record, shut out seven of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 315 to 19. The team played a national schedule, including victories over Michigan State (31-0), Indiana (21-6), Columbia (33-0), and Syracuse (21-0), and suffered its only loss on the road at Wisconsin (6-13).[1]

Kerr was hired as Colgate's head coach in April 1929, after three seasons as head coach at Washington & Jefferson.[2] He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.[3]

Three Colgate players received significant postseason awards:

The team played its home games on Whitnall Field in Hamilton, New York.

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28St. Lawrence
W 59–0
October 5at WisconsinL 6–13
October 12Michigan State
  • Whitnall Field
  • Hamilton, NY
W 31–0
October 19at IndianaW 21–6
October 26Providence
  • Whitnall Field
  • Hamilton, NY
W 52–05,000[10]
November 2Hampden–Sydney
  • Whitnall Field
  • Hamilton, NY
W 60–0
November 9at ColumbiaW 33–0[11]
November 16at SyracuseW 21–035,000
November 30at Brown
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
W 32–0

References

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  1. ^ "1929 Colgate Raiders Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  2. ^ "Kerr Begins New Colgate Duties". The Post-Star. April 26, 1929. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Andy Kerr". National Football Foundation. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
  4. ^ "New York Post Names All American Eleven". The North Adams Transcript. December 2, 1929. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b "All-Eastern 1929". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. December 4, 1929. p. 25 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "New York Sun Picks Glassgow As Outstanding Back of Year: Huntington, Tackle, Given Place On Newspaper's All-American Second Team". Daily Sentinel (Rome, NY). November 30, 1929. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Three Pittsburgh Players Named on the NEA All-Eastern Club; Booth, Masters, Cagel and Uansa in the Backfield". Mount Carmel Item. December 5, 1929. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "2008 Colgate Football Media Guide" (PDF). Colgate University. 2008. p. 127. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  9. ^ "John Cox Captain of Colgate Eleven". The Post-Star. December 1, 1928. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Maroon too strong for Providence". Democrat and Chronicle. October 27, 1929. Retrieved May 4, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Jimmy Powers (November 10, 1929). "Colgate Swamps Columbia, 33-0: Maroon Runs Wild Against Crowley Team". New York Daily News. pp. 75, 78 – via Newspapers.com.