The 1917 Fordham Maroon 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

Fordham University Fordham University () is a Private university, private Jesuit universities, Jesuit research university in New York City. Established in 1841 and named after the Fordham, Bronx, Fordham neighborhood of the The Bronx, Bronx in which its origina ...

as an independent during the

1917 college football season The 1917 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Georgia Tech as national champions, the South's first. Pittsburgh, Ohio State, Texas A&M, Williams, and Washington Sta ...

. Fordham claims a 22–3 record.

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(CFDW) lists the team's record at 7–2. Opponents recognized by CFDW are displayed in bold in the schedule chart below.

Frank Gargan John Francis Gargan (July 1, 1888 – August 18, 1960) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Georgetown University (1912–1913), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1914), Fordham University (1916–1 ...

and

Frank McCaffrey Francis "Bull" McCaffrey (December 26, 1888 – December 26, 1952) was an American football player and coach.

were the team's coaches. Left halfback

Frankie Frisch Frank Francis Frisch (September 9, 1898—March 12, 1973), nicknamed "The Fordham Flash" or "The Old Flash", was an American Major League Baseball player and manager of the first half of the twentieth century. Frisch was a switch-hitting secon ...

, known as "The Fordham Flash", led the team on offense. He later played for 19 years in

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from 1919 to 1937 and was inducted into the

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. Bulger Lowe played his only season with the University as a tackle and was one of the team captains, becoming the first player from the school to play pro-football when in 1920, he was drafted.

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