1896 Rhode Island football team

1896 Rhode Island football
ConferenceIndependent
Record0–4
Head coach
  • None
CaptainWilliam C. Clarke
1896 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Fordham   –   1 – 0 – 0
Lafayette   –   11 – 0 – 1
Princeton   –   10 – 0 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   8 – 0 – 1
Penn   –   14 – 1 – 0
Yale   –   13 – 1 – 0
Pittsburgh College   –   11 – 2 – 0
Buffalo   –   9 – 1 – 2
Villanova   –   10 – 4 – 0
Bucknell   –   5 – 2 – 1
Harvard   –   7 – 4 – 0
Boston College   –   5 – 3 – 0
Storrs   –   5 – 3 – 0
Cornell   –   5 – 3 – 1
Syracuse   –   5 – 3 – 2
Temple   –   3 – 2 – 0
Army   –   3 – 2 – 1
Rutgers   –   6 – 6 – 0
Carlisle   –   5 – 5 – 0
Holy Cross   –   2 – 2 – 2
Brown   –   4 – 5 – 1
Wesleyan   –   4 – 5 – 1
Dickinson   –   4 – 5 – 0
Frankin & Marshall   –   3 – 4 – 2
Geneva   –   3 – 4 – 0
Penn State   –   3 – 4 – 0
Colgate   –   3 – 4 – 1
Amherst   –   3 – 6 – 1
Western Univ. Penn.   –   3 – 6 – 0
Lehigh   –   2 – 5 – 0
Tufts   –   2 – 6 – 1
Swarthmore   –   2 – 6 – 0
New Hampshire   –   1 – 4 – 0
Drexel   –   1 – 5 – 0
Massachusetts   –   0 – 4 – 0
  –   0 – 4 – 0

The 1896 Rhode Island football team represented Rhode Island College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, now known as the University of Rhode Island, as an independent during the 1896 college football season. The team had no coach. The team compiled an overall record of 0–4 and were outscored by a total of 36 to 6. It was the team's second season of intercollegiate football.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 11Friends SchoolKingston, RIL 0–8
October 18Camp Street AthleticsKingston, RIL 0–8
October 25Providence High SchoolKingston, RIL 0–2[1]
November 15at Friends SchoolL 6–18

[2]

Roster

Rhode Island 1896 roster

Guards

  • William F. Harley
  • James R. Emmett

Tackles

  • Welcome Carmichael
  • Harry Page Wilson
 Center
  • Irving Thomas

Ends

  • Benjamin Carpenter
  • Harold W. Case
 Backs
  • Edmund D. Cullen
  • William C. P. Merrill
  • Robert S. Doughty
  • William C. Clarke (C)

Reserves were A. Pearson Jr. and Clarence E. Nash.[3]

References

  1. ^ "High School Football". Boston Herald. Fall River, Massachusetts. November 30, 1896. p. 6. Retrieved May 6, 2025 – via Newspapers.com .
  2. ^ DeLassus, David. "Rhode Island Yearly Results: 1895–1899". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on July 28, 2014. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
  3. ^ Clarke, William C., ed. (June 1897). "The Grist 1897". The Grist. 1. Kingston, Rhode Island: Junior Class of the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts: 79. Retrieved May 7, 2025.
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