1917 Williams Ephs football team

1917 Williams Ephs football
Conference	Independent
Record	7–0–1
Head coach	Mysterious Walker (1st season)
Captain	Henry M. Halsted Jr.

1917 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Pittsburgh			–					10	–	0	–	0
Williams			–					7	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					3	–	0	–	0
Princeton			–					2	–	0	–	0
Syracuse			–					8	–	1	–	1
Army			–					7	–	1	–	0
Rutgers			–					7	–	1	–	1
Penn			–					9	–	2	–	0
Brown			–					8	–	2	–	0
Fordham			–					7	–	2	–	0
Lehigh			–					7	–	2	–	0
Boston College			–					6	–	2	–	0
Swarthmore			–					6	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					7	–	3	–	0
Colgate			–					4	–	2	–	0
Harvard			–					3	–	1	–	3
New Hampshire			–					3	–	2	–	2
Dartmouth			–					5	–	3	–	0
Geneva			–					5	–	3	–	1
Penn State			–					5	–	4	–	0
Buffalo			–					4	–	4	–	0
NYU			–					2	–	2	–	3
Tufts			–					3	–	3	–	0
Carnegie Tech			–					2	–	3	–	1
Bucknell			–					3	–	5	–	1
Lafayette			–					3	–	5	–	0
Holy Cross			–					3	–	4	–	0
Rhode Island State			–					2	–	4	–	2
Carlisle			–					3	–	6	–	0
Columbia			–					2	–	4	–	0
Delaware			–					2	–	5	–	0
Cornell			–					3	–	6	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					2	–	6	–	0
Villanova			–					0	–	3	–	2
Temple			–					0	–	6	–	1

The 1917 Williams Ephs football team represented Williams College during the 1917 college football season. Sophomore quarterback Benny Boynton led the squad to its first undefeated record. Boynton scored all the points in a 9–6 defeat of Columbia. The team's head coach was Mysterious Walker.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
	Rensselaer		W 20–0
	Union		W 13–6
October 6	at Cornell		W 14–10
	Hamilton		W 12–0
October 27	Columbia		W 9–6
	Wesleyan		T 0–0
	Middlebury		W 39–7
	Amherst		W 20–0