1908 Colgate football team

1908 Colgate football
Conference	Independent
Record	4–3
Head coach	Edwin Sweetland (1st season)
Captain	Robert Whelan
Home stadium	Whitnall Field

1908 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Penn			–					11	–	0	–	1
Harvard			–					9	–	0	–	1
Cornell			–					7	–	1	–	1
Fordham			–					5	–	1	–	0
Yale			–					7	–	1	–	1
Dartmouth			–					6	–	1	–	1
Carlisle			–					10	–	2	–	1
Washington & Jefferson			–					10	–	2	–	1
Army			–					6	–	1	–	2
Pittsburgh			–					8	–	3	–	0
Lafayette			–					6	–	2	–	2
Princeton			–					5	–	2	–	3
Syracuse			–					6	–	3	–	1
Brown			–					5	–	3	–	1
Temple			–					3	–	2	–	1
Colgate			–					4	–	3	–	0
Lehigh			–					4	–	3	–	0
Dickinson			–					5	–	4	–	0
Amherst			–					3	–	3	–	2
Holy Cross			–					4	–	4	–	0
Penn State			–					5	–	5	–	0
Vermont			–					3	–	3	–	3
Wesleyan			–					3	–	4	–	2
Springfield Training School			–					3	–	4	–	1
NYU			–					2	–	3	–	2
Frankin & Marshall			–					4	–	6	–	1
Bucknell			–					3	–	5	–	2
Rutgers			–					3	–	5	–	1
Boston College			–					2	–	4	–	2
Carnegie Tech			–					3	–	7	–	0
Geneva			–					1	–	6	–	2
Tufts			–					1	–	6	–	1
Villanova			–					1	–	6	–	0
New Hampshire			–					1	–	7	–	0
Drexel			–					0	–	7	–	0

The 1908 Colgate football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1908 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Edwin Sweetland, the team compiled a 4–3 record. Robert Whelan was the team captain. The team played its home games on Whitnall Field in Hamilton, New York.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 3	at Brown	Andrews Field Providence, RI	L 0–6
October 10	Hobart	Whitnall Field Hamilton, NY	W 26–0
October 17	at Cornell	Percy Field Ithaca, NY (rivalry)	L 0–9
October 24	at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	L 0–6
October 31	Union (NY)	Whitnall Field Hamilton, NY	W 24–4
November 7	at Syracuse	Archbold Stadium Syracuse, NY	W 6–0
November 14	at Hamilton	Clinton, NY	W 22–0