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1917 Camp Grant football
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1917 military service football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Mare Island Marines     8 0 0
Mineola Aviation Station     3 0 0
Camp Dix     2 0 0
Camp Jackson     2 0 1
Allentown Ambulance Corps     5 1 0
Camp Custer     5 1 0
Camp Gordon     5 1 0
Charlestown Navy Yard     3 1 0
Camp Funston     7 3 0
Camp Lewis     5 2 1
Newport Naval Reserves     5 2 1
Camp Grant     3 1 0
Camp Taylor     2 1 0
Great Lakes Navy     4 3 0
Camp Devens     1 3 2
Camp Meade     1 2 0
League Island Marines     1 3 0
Camp Upton     0 1 0

The 1917 Camp Grant football team was an American football team that represented Camp Grant, located near Rockford, Illinois, during the 1917 fall football season. The team lost its game with Great Lakes Navy, but won its game against Camp Custer at Stagg Field in Chicago.

Amos Alonzo Stagg and Fred J. Murphy, the head coaches at Chicago and Northwestern, coached the Camp Grant team in the week leading up to their game with Camp Custer. Fielding H. Yost of Michigan helped coach the Camp Custer team. Stagg and Murphy were assisted by Lewis Omer and Major Gillesby. Ring Lardner attended Camp Grant's game with Camp Custer and wrote a column describing the spectacle.

Three Camp Grant players received recognition on the 1917 All-Service football team selected by Walter Camp for Collier's Weekly: end John Rasmussen, formerly of Nebraska, received first-team honors; halfback Fritz Shiverick, formerly of Cornell, received second-team honors; and tackle Zipper Lathrop, formerly of Notre Dame, received third-team honors from Camp. Other notable players on the Camp Grant team included halfback Nelson Norgren of Chicago and tackle Perry Smith of Harvard.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
Rockford Athletic ClubW 35–0
November 17Great Lakes NavyL 6–9
December 1vs. Camp CusterW 14–1315,000

References

  1. "Mentors Put Camp Grant Men In Shape". The Rock Island Argus. November 27, 1917. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. "Grant Eleven In Good Condition: Officers' Team Shows Improvement Under Direction of Coaches Stagg and Murphy". Rock Island Argus. November 29, 1917. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. Ring W. Lardner (December 2, 1917). "In the Wake of the News". Chicago Tribune. p. II-1 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "War and Football". Collier's Weekly. 60: 32. January 5, 1918.
  5. ^ "Grant Goes Over Top Against Custer". Chicago Tribune. December 2, 1917. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide 1918. American Sports Publishing Co. 1918. p. 109.
  7. Parke Brown (November 18, 1917). "Jackies Defeat Camp Grant Men on Gridiron, 9-6". Chicago Tribune. p. II-1 – via Newspapers.com.
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