1897 Ohio State Buckeyes football team

1897 Ohio State Buckeyes football
Conference	Independent
Record	1–7–1
Head coach	David Farragut Edwards (1st season)
Home stadium	Recreation Park

1897 Midwestern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Butler			–					3	–	0	–	0
Fairmount			–					1	–	0	–	0
Washburn			–					7	–	1	–	0
Cincinnati			–					9	–	1	–	1
Iowa State Normal			–					5	–	1	–	0
Ohio Wesleyan			–					7	–	1	–	1
Indiana			–					6	–	1	–	1
Ohio			–					7	–	2	–	0
Carthage			–					3	–	1	–	0
Iowa Agricultural			–					3	–	1	–	0
Notre Dame			–					4	–	1	–	1
Michigan Agricultural			–					4	–	2	–	1
Central Michigan			–					2	–	1	–	0
Baldwin–Wallace			–					2	–	1	–	1
Chicago Dental Infirmary			–					2	–	2	–	1
Missouri			–					5	–	6	–	0
Lake Forest			–					4	–	5	–	1
Drake			–					2	–	3	–	0
Heidelberg			–					2	–	3	–	0
Detroit College			–					1	–	2	–	0
Indiana Normal			–					1	–	4	–	0
Kansas State			–					1	–	2	–	1
Mount Union			–					2	–	4	–	1
Rush Medical College			–					1	–	4	–	1
DePauw			–					2	–	6	–	0
Wittenberg			–					2	–	6	–	0
Haskell			–					1	–	4	–	0
Indiana State Normal			–					1	–	4	–	0
Ohio State			–					1	–	7	–	1
South Dakota Agricultural			–					0	–	1	–	0
Washington University			–					0	–	2	–	0
North Dakota Agricultural			–					0	–	3	–	0

The 1897 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented Ohio State University in the 1897 college football season.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 6	Ohio Medical	Recreation Park Columbus, OH	W 6–0
October 9	Case	Recreation Park Columbus, OH	L 0–14
October 16	at Michigan	Regents Field Ann Arbor, MI (rivalry)	L 0–34
October 23	Otterbein	Recreation Park Columbus, OH	T 12–12
October 26	Columbus Barracks	Recreation Park Columbus, OH	L 0–6
October 30	Oberlin	Recreation Park Columbus, OH	L 0–44
November 6	at West Virginia	Parkersburg, WV	L 0–28
November 13	at Cincinnati	Cincinnati, OH	L 0–24
November 25	Ohio Wesleyan	Recreation Park Columbus, OH	L 0–6