1897 Wesleyan Methodists football team

1897 Wesleyan Methodists football
Conference	Independent
Record	8–7
Head coach	Neilson Poe (1st season)
Captain	Archer E. Young
Home stadium	Pameacha Park, Hanover Park

1897 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Penn			–					15	–	0	–	0
Princeton			–					10	–	1	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					10	–	1	–	0
Yale			–					9	–	0	–	2
Buffalo			–					9	–	1	–	0
Harvard			–					10	–	1	–	1
Army			–					6	–	1	–	1
Vermont			–					3	–	0	–	2
Lafayette			–					9	–	2	–	1
Drexel			–					6	–	2	–	1
Colgate			–					5	–	2	–	1
Dickinson			–					7	–	3	–	2
Swarthmore			–					7	–	3	–	2
Fordham			–					2	–	1	–	1
Cornell			–					5	–	3	–	1
Syracuse			–					5	–	3	–	1
Brown			–					7	–	4	–	0
Carlisle			–					6	–	4	–	0
Boston College			–					4	–	3	–	0
Holy Cross			–					4	–	3	–	1
Wesleyan			–					8	–	7	–	0
Bucknell			–					3	–	3	–	1
NYU			–					3	–	3	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	3	–	0
Trinity (CT)			–					4	–	4	–	1
Tufts			–					6	–	7	–	0
Geneva			–					3	–	4	–	1
Pittsburgh College			–					3	–	5	–	2
Villanova			–					3	–	5	–	1
Penn State			–					3	–	6	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					2	–	6	–	2
Lehigh			–					3	–	7	–	0
New Hampshire			–					2	–	5	–	0
Rutgers			–					2	–	5	–	0
Western Univ. Penn.			–					1	–	3	–	0

The 1897 Wesleyan Methodists football team represented Wesleyan University as an independent during the 1897 college football season. Led by Neilson Poe in his first and only season as head coach, the Methodists compiled a record of 8–7. Wesleyan played two home games at Pameacha Park in Middletown, Connecticut and one home game at Hanover Park in Meriden, Connecticut.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 22		at Waterbury YMCA	YMCA grounds Waterbury, CT	W 20–0
September 25		at New Britain YMCA	Electric Field New Britain, CT	W 28–0
October 2		at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 0–30	2,000–3,000
October 6	4:00 p.m.	Massachusetts	Pameacha Park Middletown, CT	W 18–5
October 9	4:10 p.m.	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	L 9–12	2,000
October 13	4:00 p.m.	Tufts	Pameacha Park Middletown, CT	W 16–0
October 16		at Brown	Adelaide Park Providence, RI	L 12–24
October 20	3:30 p.m.	Amherst	Hanover Park Meriden, CT	W 24–0	1,000
October 23		at Williams	Weston Field Williamstown, MA	W 22–0
October 27		at Amherst	Pratt Field Amherst, MA	W 14–0	600
November 3		at Harvard	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA	L 0–34	1,200–3,000
November 6	3:00 p.m.	at Trinity (CT)	Hartford, CT (rivalry)	W 6–4	2,000
November 13		at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–22	3,000
November 20		at Lafayette	March Field Easton, PA	L 6–41
November 25		at Brown	Adelaide Park Providence, RI	L 4–12	2,000