The 1904 Olympics, The World's Fair & A Perfect, Unscored Upon Season
St. Louis University claims to have won the Olympic gold medal in American football in 1904, Robinson's first season at SLU. Both the third Olympic Games of the modern era and the World's Fair were held in St. Louis that year.
Blue and White games were played before Exposition crowds.
St. Louis (under head coach Martin J. Delaney) went 11–0, outscoring its opponents 336 to 0 that year—including a win over Kentucky by the score of 5–0, the 17–0 victory over Missouri and a 51–0 defeat of Arkansas. The Spalding Athletic Almanac of 1905 offered this commentary:
“The (Olympic) Department knew perfectly well that it would be unable to have an Olympic Foot Ball Championship, though it felt incumbent to advertise it. Owing to the conditions in American colleges it would be utterly impossible to have an Olympic foot ball championship decided. The only college that seemed absolutely willing to give up its financial interests to play for the World’s Fair Championship was the St. Louis University and there is more apparently in this honor than appears in this report. There were many exhibition contests held in the Stadium under the auspices of the Department wherein teams from the St. Louis University and Washington University took part and competed against other teams from universities east and west of the Mississippi River. The Missouri–Purdue game was played in the Stadium on October 28.... The Olympic College Foot Ball Championship was won by St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo., by default.”
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