The 1901 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

team that represented the

University of Colorado The University of Colorado (CU) is a system of public universities in Colorado. It consists of four institutions: University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, and the University of Co ...

as a member of the

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(CFA) during the 1901 college football season.

Fred Folsom Fred Gorham Folsom (November 9, 1873 – November 11, 1944) was an American football player, coach of football and baseball, lawyer, and law professor. He served as the head football coach at the University of Colorado Boulder (1895–1899, 1901 ...

returned from a one-year absence for his sixth season as head coach and led Colorado to an overall record of 5–1–1 with a mark of 2–0 in conference play, winning the CFA championship.

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