1921 Lafayette football team

The 1921 Lafayette football team represented Lafayette College in the 1921 college football season. Lafayette shut out five of its nine opponents and finished with an undefeated 9–0 record in their third year under head coach and College Football Hall of Fame inductee, Jock Sutherland. Significant games included victories over Pittsburgh (6–0), Penn (38–6), and Lehigh (28–6). The 1921 Lafayette team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 274 to 26.[1][2] Lafayette guard Frank Schwab was a consensus first-team selection on the 1921 College Football All-America Team.[3] The team also included fullback George Seasholtz, who went on to play in the National Football League.[4] The team was retroactively selected as a 1921 co-national champion by the Boand System and Parke H. Davis.[5]

1921 Lafayette football
Co-national champion (Boand, Davis)
Conference	Independent
1921 record	9–0
Head coach	Jock Sutherland (3rd season)
Offensive scheme	Single-wing
Captain	Joseph Lehecka
Home stadium	March Field

1921 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Wash. & Jeff.			–					10	–	0	–	1
Lafayette			–					9	–	0	–	0
Cornell			–					8	–	0	–	0
Penn State			–					8	–	0	–	2
Yale			–					8	–	1	–	0
New Hampshire			–					8	–	1	–	1
Franklin & Marshall			–					6	–	1	–	2
Villanova			–					6	–	1	–	2
Carnegie Tech			–					7	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					7	–	2	–	0
Harvard			–					7	–	2	–	1
Dartmouth			–					6	–	2	–	1
Brown			–					5	–	3	–	1
Geneva			–					5	–	3	–	1
Pittsburgh			–					5	–	3	–	1
Army			–					6	–	4	–	0
Princeton			–					4	–	3	–	0
Boston College			–					4	–	3	–	1
Fordham			–					4	–	3	–	2
Penn			–					4	–	3	–	2
Colgate			–					4	–	4	–	2
Lehigh			–					4	–	4	–	0
NYU			–					2	–	3	–	3
Drexel			–					2	–	3	–	1
Rutgers			–					4	–	6	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					3	–	5	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	6	–	0
Tufts			–					1	–	5	–	2
Duquesne			–					0	–	4	–	1

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 24	Muhlenberg	Easton, PA	W 48–0
October 1	Pittsburgh	Easton, PA	W 6–0
October 8	Dickinson	Easton, PA	W 27–0
October 15	at Bucknell	Lewisburg, PA	W 20–7
October 22	at Fordham	New York, NY	W 28–7
October 29	Rutgers	Easton, PA	W 35–0
November 5	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	W 38–6
November 12	Delaware	Easton, PA	W 44–0
November 19	at Lehigh	Taylor Stadium Bethlehem, PA (The Rivalry)	W 28–6

References

1. "1921 Lafayette Leopards Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
2. "Lafayette Yearly Results (1920-1924)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
3. "2014 NCAA Football Records: Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2014. p. 5. Retrieved August 16, 2014.
4. "George Seasholtz". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
5. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 108. Retrieved January 8, 2016.