1897 Wesleyan Methodists football team

1897 Wesleyan Methodists football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–7
Head coach
CaptainArcher E. Young
Home stadiumPameacha Park, Hanover Park
1897 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn     15 0 0
Princeton     10 1 0
Washington & Jefferson     10 1 0
Yale     9 0 2
Buffalo     9 1 0
Harvard     10 1 1
Army     6 1 1
Vermont     3 0 2
Lafayette     9 2 1
Drexel     6 2 1
Colgate     5 2 1
Dickinson     7 3 2
Swarthmore     7 3 2
Fordham     2 1 1
Cornell     5 3 1
Syracuse     5 3 1
Brown     7 4 0
Carlisle     6 4 0
Boston College     4 3 0
Holy Cross     4 3 1
Wesleyan     8 7 0
Bucknell     3 3 1
NYU     3 3 0
Temple     3 3 0
Trinity (CT)     4 4 1
Tufts     6 7 0
Geneva     3 4 1
Pittsburgh College     3 5 2
Villanova     3 5 1
Penn State     3 6 0
Amherst     2 6 2
Franklin & Marshall     2 6 2
Lehigh     3 7 0
New Hampshire     2 5 0
Rutgers     2 5 0
Western Univ. Penn.     1 3 0

The 1897 Wesleyan Methodists football team represented Wesleyan University as an independent during the 1897 college football season. Led by Neilson Poe in his first and only season as head coach, the Methodists compiled a record of 8–7. Wesleyan played two home games at Pameacha Park in Middletown, Connecticut and one home game at Hanover Park in Meriden, Connecticut.