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1896 Lafayette football team

American college football season

Field	Value
year	1896
team	Lafayette
sport	football
image	Lafayette football team 1896.jpg
image_size	250
conference	Independent
record	11–0–1
head_coach	Parke H. Davis
hc_year	2nd
captain	George Waldbridge
stadium	Lafayette Field
champion	Co-national champion (NCF, Davis)

The 1896 Lafayette football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College of Easton, Pennsylvania, as an independent during the 1896 college football season. In their second season under head coach Parke H. Davis, Lafayette compiled an 11–0–1 record, shut out 10 of 12 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 240 to 10. The team was retroactively selected as the co-national champion by the National Championship Foundation and the team's own head coach, Parke H. Davis, in his later role as a football historian.

Lafayette played a scoreless tie with Princeton in the second game of the year and defeated West Virginia three times in three days by a combined score of 56–0. On October 24, Lafayette defeated Penn, 6–4, breaking the Quakers' 34-game winning streak. Lafayette closed its season with an 18–6 win over Navy.

Notable players on the team included:

Tackle Fielding H. Yost began the season playing for West Virginia and then joined Lafayette for its game against Penn. He later served as the head football coach at Michigan from 1901 to 1926.
Guard Charles Rinehart, 6'1", 243 pounds, was described as "the life, genius and inspiration" of the team with muscles "as strong as bands of steel".
Halfback George Barclay. Lehigh refused to play its annual rivalry game with Lehigh in protest over Barclay's eligibility and amateur status. Barclay allegedly played professional baseball the previous summer.

Schedule

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References

National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). (2015). "National Poll Rankings". NCAA.
(November 12, 1896). "Lafayette-Wyoming: A Clean Exhibition of Football at Kingston". Wilkes-Barre Times.
March, Francis A.. (1926). "Athletics at Lafayette College".
Lewis, S. Parnell. (1982). "100 Years of Football at Lafayette College".
(September 27, 1896). "Lafayette Very Strong: Roll Up the Splendid Score of 44 Points Against the Volunteers". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
(October 8, 1896). "Princeton's Poor Showing: Lafayette Prevents Her From Scoring and Should Have Beaten Her". The Philadelphia Times.
(October 8, 1896). "Princeton 0, Lafayette 0". The Boston Globe.
(October 16, 1896). "Good for 'Varsity". Wheeling Daily Intelligencer.
(October 17, 1896). "To-day's Foot Ball Game Between Teams of Lafayette College and the W. Va. University". Wheeling Register.
(October 18, 1896). "W.V.U. Team Outclassed: The University Eleven Shut Out By Lafayette College". Wheeling Register.
(October 25, 1896). "Penn's Victorious Career Checked: Not Beaten Since 1893, the Quakers Fall Before Lafayette by the Score of 6 to 4". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
. (November 1, 1896). ["Lafayette Runs 18 On Dickinson's Team"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer/163295043/). *[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]*.
(November 12, 1896). "Lafayette 17 - Normal 0". The Columbian.
(November 15, 1896). "F. and M. Snowed Under: Lafayette Had a Rather Easy Time With the Lancaster Collegians". The Philadelphia Times.
(November 22, 1896). "Lafayette Wins From The Wesleyan Boys". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
(November 27, 1896). "Lafayette, 18; Middies, 6". The Baltimore Sun.

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