1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team

The 1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 1917 college football season. Led by coach Pop Warner, the Panthers won all ten games and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 260–31.

1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–0
Head coach
  • Pop Warner (3rd season)
Offensive schemeDouble wing
CaptainDoc Carlson
Home stadiumForbes Field
1917 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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 Panthers were nicknamed "The Fighting Dentists" because during some rotations all eleven players on the field would be dentistry students. One of those players was Pitt Panthers legend Jock Sutherland.

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