The 1908 Wabash Little Giants football team represented
Wabash College
Wabash College is a private liberal arts men's college in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Founded in 1832 by several Dartmouth College graduates and Midwestern leaders, it enrolls nearly 900 students. The college offers an undergraduate liberal arts cur ...
during the
1908 college football season
The 1908 college football season ran from Saturday, September 19, to November 28. The Penn Quakers and the Harvard Crimson each finished the season unbeaten but with one tied. The LSU Tigers went unbeaten and untied against a weaker opposition. ...
.
In
Ralph Jones
Ralph Robert "Curley" Jones (September 22, 1880 – July 26, 1951) was an American high school and college American football, football and college basketball, basketball coach. He also served as the head coach for the Chicago Bears of the Na ...
's first season as head coach, the Little Giants compiled a 2–6 record, but still managed to outscore their opponents 95 to 65, thanks to a 62–0 blowout of
Franklin
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in the season opener, and a plethora of close losses against ,
St. Louis
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,
Michigan Agricultural,
Miami (OH), and
Notre Dame, all of which were one score games.
Wabash's most notable and impressive contest was against Notre Dame, when the Little Giant's held the 8–1 Fighting Irish to 8 points and scored 4 of their own, the best showing put up against the team besides
Michigan
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. The Little Giant's also held an undefeated Michigan Agricultural and Miami of Ohio to 6 points.
Schedule
References
Wabash
Wabash Little Giants football seasons
Wabash Little Giants football
The Wabash Little Giants football team represents Wabash College in the sport of college football at the NCAA Division III level.
History
In 1884, Wabash played its first game of intercollegiate football when it defeated a team from Butler Univ ...
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