Carlisle Indians
Carlisle has played football since at least 1894 and is 165–80–10 in the 255 games on record. The College Football Hall of Fame holds 6 players and 2 coaches from Carlisle. Pop Warner (1899–1914) won more games here than any other coach: 113. The most-played rival is Pennsylvania: 21 meetings, Pennsylvania leads 13–6–2. This season, they’re 3–6.
On this date in 1912Carlisle beat Pittsburgh 45–8 on the road.
Résumé
- Record on file
- 165–80–10 .667; how we count
- Postseason
- 0–0 bowls, title games, playoff
- AP No. 1 finishes
- 0
- Weeks at No. 1
- 0 of 0 ranked
- Elo now
- 1349
- Seasons
- 23 since 1894, 255 games
1917 season 3–6
RosterFull 1917 season| Date | Opponent | Result | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29 | vsAlbright | W 59–0 | 86% |
| Oct 6 | vsFranklin & Marshall | W 63–0 | 83% |
| Oct 13 | at West Virginia | L 0–21 | 27% |
| Oct 20 | at Navy | L 0–61 | 23% |
| Oct 27 | vsJohns Hopkins | W 15–7 | 83% |
| Nov 3 | at Bucknell | L 0–10 | 51% |
| Nov 10 | at Army | L 0–28 | 15% |
| Nov 17 | at Georgia Tech | L 0–98 | 7% |
| Nov 24 | at Pennsylvania | L 0–26 | 17% |
Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.
This season, game by game
Players
The 1917 rosterProgram greats See all
Heisman finalists, College Football Hall of Famers, consensus All-Americans, national award winners and first-round picks, for what they did at Carlisle.
Jim ThorpeHall of Fame, 1951
James JohnsonHall of Fame, 1969
Albert ExendineHall of Fame, 1970
Gus WelchHall of Fame, 1975
Joe GuyonHall of Fame, 1971- Eddie RogersHall of Fame, 1968
- Isaac SenecaConsensus All-American, 1899
- Peter HauserConsensus All-American, 1907
Photos: Wikimedia Commons, free licenses; credits on each player’s page.
Program strength since 1894
Best seasons everHead coaches
| Coach | Years | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Choc Kelly | 1915 | 3–6–2 |
 Pop Warner | 1899–1914 | 113–43–8 |
| George Woodruff | 1905 | 10–4 |
Most-played series
All rivalries- Pennsylvania
6–13–2 in 21
- 1906 W 24–6
- 1907 W 26–6
- 1908 T 6–6
- 1909 L 6–29
- 1910 L 5–17
- 1911 W 16–0
- 1912 L 26–34
- 1913 T 7–7
- 1914 L 0–7
- 1917 L 0–26
Lost the last two.
- Lebanon Valley
13–0–1 in 14
- 1904 W 28–0
- 1907 W 40–0
- 1908 W 39–0
- 1909 W 36–0
- 1910 W 53–0
- 1911 W 53–0
- 1912 W 45–0
- 1913 W 26–0
- 1914 W 7–0
- 1915 T 0–0
Tied the last meeting.
- Harvard
2–12 in 14
- 1901 L 0–29
- 1902 L 0–23
- 1903 L 11–12
- 1904 L 0–12
- 1905 L 11–23
- 1906 L 0–5
- 1907 W 23–15
- 1908 L 0–17
- 1911 W 18–15
- 1915 L 7–29
Lost the last one.
| Opponent | Games | Carlisle record |
|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 21 | 6–13–2 |
| Lebanon Valley | 14 | 13–0–1 |
| Harvard | 14 | 2–12 |
| Dickinson | 12 | 12–0 |
| Bucknell | 9 | 6–2–1 |
| Syracuse | 9 | 6–3 |
| Susquehanna | 9 | 9–0 |
| Brown | 9 | 3–6 |
Every opponent (78)
Every program Carlisle has played, A to Z, with Carlisle’s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.
- Alabama 1–0
- Albright 7–0
- Army 2–1
- Auburn 0–1
- Bloomsburg 3–0
- Brown 3–6
- Bucknell 6–2–1
- California 1–0
- Canton A.C. 0–1
- Chicago 1–0
- Cincinnati 4–0
- Columbia 1–2
- Conway Hall 1–0
- Cornell 2–3
- Dartmouth 2–0
- Delaware 0–1
- Denver 1–0
- Dickinson 12–0
- Duquesne A.C. 1–0
- Fordham 0–1
- Franklin & Marshall 2–0
- Gallaudet 1–0
- George Washington 1–0
- Georgetown 6–0
- Georgia Tech 0–1
- Gettysburg 7–1
- Hamilton 1–0
- Harvard 2–12
- Harvard Law 0–1
- Haskell 1–0
- Haverford 1–0
- Holy Cross 1–0–1
- Illinois 2–0
- Johns Hopkins 4–0
- Lafayette 1–0
- Lebanon Valley 13–0–1
- Lehigh 2–3
- Massilon A.C. 0–1
- Medico-Chirurgical 1–0
- Michigan 0–1
- Minnesota 2–1
- Mount St. Mary’s 1–0
- Muhlenberg 2–0
- Navy 1–3
- Nebraska 1–0
- New England All-Stars 0–1
- Northwestern 1–0
- Notre Dame 0–1
- Oberlin 1–0
- Ohio Medical 1–0
- Ohio State 1–0
- Penn State 4–1–1
- Pennsylvania 6–13–2
- Pennsylvania College 1–0
- Pennsylvania Railroad YMCA 1–0
- Phoenix Indians 1–0
- Pittsburgh 4–4
- Princeton 0–6
- Reliance A.C. 1–0
- Saint Louis 2–0
- Sherman 1–0
- Springfield 1–0
- Steelton YMCA 1–0
- Susquehanna 9–0
- Swarthmore 1–0
- Syracuse 6–3
- Toronto All-Stars 1–0
- Ursinus 1–0
- Utah 2–0
- Vanderbilt 0–1
- Villanova 7–0
- Virginia 5–1–1
- Washington & Jefferson 1–0–3
- West Virginia 0–1
- West Virginia Wesleyan 2–1
- Williams 1–0
- Wisconsin 1–0
- Yale 0–5
Consensus All-Americans 6
| 1912 | Jim Thorpe RB |
| 1911 | Jim Thorpe RB |
| 1907 | Albert Exendine E |
| 1907 | Peter Hauser FB |
| 1903 | James Johnson QB |
| 1899 | Isaac Seneca RB |
In the Hall of Fame
Every inductee- Players
- 6
- Coaches
- 2
| 1975 | Gus Welch QB |
| 1971 | Joe Guyon RB |
| 1970 | Albert Exendine E |
| 1969 | James Johnson QB |
| 1968 | Eddie Rogers E |
| 1963 | George Washington Woodruff coach here, 1905 |
| 1951 | Jim Thorpe RB |
| 1951 | Pop Warner coach here, 1899–1914 |
Old photographs
Carlisle v. SyracusePhoto: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Bain News Service photograph collection, no known restrictions on publication 
Carlisle v. SyracusePhoto: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Bain News Service photograph collection, no known restrictions on publication 
Carlisle v. SyracusePhoto: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Bain News Service photograph collection, no known restrictions on publication 
Carlisle v. SyracusePhoto: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Bain News Service photograph collection, no known restrictions on publication 
Welch, CarlislePhoto: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Bain News Service photograph collection, no known restrictions on publication 
Gus Lookaround -- Carlisle – footballPhoto: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Bain News Service photograph collection, no known restrictions on publication
From the Library of Congress’s Prints & Photographs Division, with no known restrictions on publication. The records don’t give these a season; those they date are on their seasons’ pages.
On the newsreel
- TEXAS 28 NAVY 6
- TEXAS KEEPS ROLLING ALONG
Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.
Season by season
National champions| Season | Record | Conf. | AP pre | AP final | Coach | Elo | SP+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 3–6 | 1349 | |||||
| 1915 | 3–6–2 | Choc Kelly | 1353 | ||||
| 1914 | 5–10–1 | Pop Warner | 1412 | ||||
| 1913 | 10–1–1 | Pop Warner | 1733 | ||||
| 1912 | 12–1–1 | Pop Warner | 1748 | ||||
| 1911 | 11–1 | Pop Warner | 1708 | ||||
| 1910 | 8–6 | Pop Warner | 1539 | ||||
| 1909 | 8–3–1 | Pop Warner | 1628 | ||||
| 1908 | 10–2–1 | Pop Warner | 1742 | ||||
| 1907 | 10–1 | Pop Warner | 1758 | ||||
| 1906 | 9–3 | 1692 | |||||
| 1905 | 10–4 | George Woodruff | 1608 | ||||
| 1904 | 10–2 | 1680 | |||||
| 1903 | 11–2–1 | Pop Warner | 1679 | ||||
| 1902 | 8–3 | Pop Warner | 1558 | ||||
| 1901 | 5–7–1 | Pop Warner | 1457 | ||||
| 1900 | 6–4–1 | Pop Warner | 1577 | ||||
| 1899 | 9–2 | Pop Warner | 1625 | ||||
| 1898 | 6–4 | 1521 | |||||
| 1897 | 6–4 | 1445 | |||||
| 1896 | 5–5 | 1374 | |||||
| 1895few games on file | 0–2 | 1190 | |||||
| 1894few games on file | 0–1 | 1191 |
No season on file for 1916: the program may not have played, or our source may be missing it.
All 23 seasons on file are complete, game by game: every win and loss in the record has its game here.
Records are computed from every game on file at CollegeFootballData.com, whose coverage of the earliest seasons can be incomplete. Elo is this site’s own rating; see how it works on the records page.