1897: Week 5
27 games. Winners are listed first; numbers before names are AP ranks going in.
FBS vs. FBS
| Oct 6, 1897 | Brown 24, Wesleyan (CT) 12 | Box score |
| Oct 6, 1897 | Lafayette 8, Franklin & Marshall 0 | Box score |
| Oct 6, 1897 | Princeton 53, Rutgers 0 | Box score |
| Oct 6, 1897 | Tufts 12, Boston College 0upset | Box score |
| Oct 6, 1897 | Yale 18, Amherst 0 | Box score |
| Oct 9, 1897 | Army 12, Wesleyan (CT) 9 | Box score |
| Oct 9, 1897 | Cornell 15, Tufts 0 | Box score |
| Oct 9, 1897 | Harvard 38, Amherst 0 | Box score |
| Oct 9, 1897 | Princeton 28, Navy 0 | Box score |
| Oct 9, 1897 | Yale 32, Williams 0 | Box score |
Everyone else
| Oct 6, 1897 | Lehigh 5, Williams 0 | Box score |
| Oct 6, 1897 | Pennsylvania 57, Gettysburg 0 | Box score |
| Oct 6, 1897 | Wisconsin 8, Madison High 0 | Box score |
| Oct 9, 1897 | Brown 44, Boston University 0 | Box score |
| Oct 9, 1897 | Carlisle 26, Bloomsburg 0 | Box score |
| Oct 9, 1897 | Chicago 71, Lake Forest 0 | Box score |
| Oct 9, 1897 | Dickinson 20, Swarthmore 4 | Box score |
| Oct 9, 1897 | Illinois 6, Physicians & Surgeons 0 | Box score |
| Oct 9, 1897 | Lafayette 64, Temperance A.C. 0 | Box score |
| Oct 9, 1897 | Minnesota 48, Carleton 6 | Box score |
| Oct 9, 1897 | Northwestern 6, Beloit 0 | Box score |
| Oct 9, 1897 | Oberlin 22, Purdue 6upset | Box score |
| Oct 9, 1897 | Michigan 0, Ohio Wesleyan 0 | Box score |
| Oct 9, 1897 | Pennsylvania 58, Lehigh 0 | Box score |
| Oct 9, 1897 | Bucknell 6, Pennsylvania Reserves 6 | Box score |
| Oct 9, 1897 | Trinity (CT) 26, Massachusetts 5 | Box score |
| Oct 9, 1897 | Wisconsin 28, Rush Medical 0 | Box score |