The 1917 Howard Baptists 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 Howard College (now known as the Samford University) as a member of the

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(SIAA) during the 1917 college football season. The team compiled an 3–3–1 record, with John B. Longwell going 2–2–1 through the first five games and C. W. Streit going 1–1 for the final two games of the season.

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Howard Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old French Huard (or Houard) from a Germanic source similar to Old High German ''*Hugihard'' "heart-brave", or ''*Hoh-ward'', literally "high defender; chief guardian". It is also probabl ...

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