1906 College Football Season - October

October

October 6 Harvard won its fourth game, but its 27-6 win over Bates took the Crimson out of the ranks of the unscored upon. Meanwhile, other teams recorded their third consecutive shutouts. Swarthmore beat visiting Villanova 4-0, and Penn State won at Carlisle by the same 4-0 score. Dartmouth bested Holy Cross, 16-0 and Princeton beat Stevens 22-0. Army over Trinity (24-0), Yale had opened its season midweek (October 3, 21-0 over Wesleyan) and then beat Syracuse (51-0) (Wesleyan itself lost 17-0 to Brown). In the west, Iowa State's team beat Coe College 36-0 on Friday, then Des Moines 45-0 the next day. Maryville, at that time a regular southern opponent powerhouse, lost at Alabama, 6-0; two days earlier, it had lost to Ole Miss 16-6. Michigan opened its season with a 28-0 win over visiting Case.

October 13 Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, and Brown remained unscored upon, as did Lafayette, Pittsburgh and Swarthmore. Playing on 3 Saturdays and 2 Wednesdays, the Princeton Tigers played five games in fifteen days (Sep 29 to Oct 13), beating Villanova, Stevens, Washington & Jefferson, Lehigh (52-0), and in Annapolis on this date, a 5-0 win over Navy. Brown had beaten Massachusetts 17-0 on a Wednesday afternoon. Yale defeated Holy Cross 17-0 and Maine 4-0. Swarthmore eked out a win at Penn, 4-0. Harvard, 5-0-0 but not scorefree, defeated Massachusetts 21-0. Army and Colgate played to a 0-0 tie.

In the West, Kansas defeated Arkansas 37-5 and Nebraska beat Drake 5-0. In the South, Vanderbilt defeated Ole Miss at home, 29-0 and Texas beat TCU 22-0. Georgia Tech beat Tennessee-Chattanooga 18-0 to reach 2-0-1. Clemson opened its season with a 0-0 tie with visiting Virginia Tech. Other colleges stayed unscored upon, but against smaller opponents (Iowa State 32-0 over Morningside, Mississippi State 62-0 over Marion).

October 20 Yale stayed unscored-on with a 10-0 win over Penn State, and Dartmouth beat Massachusetts 26-0. Princeton, however, gave up points in a 32-4 win over Bucknell. Swarthmore beat GWU 17-0. Harvard had a 44-0 win over Springfield. Lafayette won at North Carolina, 28-6. Brown was handed its first defeat, a 14-0 loss at Pennsylvania, while Pitt lost to Carlisle, 22-0.

After warming up with small colleges, Iowa State won at Nebraska, 14-2, while Kansas beat visiting Oklahoma 20-4. Michigan won at Ohio State, 6-0. In the South, Vanderbilt handed Alabama a 78-0 loss. After tuneup wins against Mooney and Rhodes, Sewanee won at Georgia Tech, 16-0. Clemson beat Georgia 6-0, and played a Thursday afternoon 0-0 tie against NC State.

October 27 Yale stayed unscored on, with a 12-0 win over Amherst. Harvard won at Army, 5-0. Swarthmore yielded a score in a 19-4 win over Gettysburg. Lafayette beat Colgate 17-6. Dartmouth and Williams College played to a 0-0 tie.

Kansas beat Colorado, 16-0 but Iowa State lost at Minnesota, 22-4, and Missouri lost its first outing against a large school, falling 26-4 at Iowa. Michigan beat visiting Illinois, 28-9. Vanderbilt beat Texas, 45-0. Mississippi State and LSU played to a 0-0 tie. Sewanee had beaten Auburn 10-5 in a Friday afternoon game at Birmingham. Georgia Tech beat Davidson 4-0.