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)
ConferenceIndependent
1921 record9–0
Head coachJock Sutherland (3rd season)
Offensive schemeSingle-wing
CaptainJoseph Lehecka
Home stadiumMarch Field
1921 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW 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
DateOpponentSiteResult
September 24MuhlenbergEaston, PAW 48–0
October 1PittsburghEaston, PAW 6–0
October 8DickinsonEaston, PAW 27–0
October 15at BucknellLewisburg, PAW 20–7
October 22at FordhamNew York, NYW 28–7
October 29RutgersEaston, PAW 35–0
November 5at Penn
W 38–6
November 12DelawareEaston, PAW 44–0
November 19at Lehigh
W 28–6
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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.
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