1903 Iowa State Cyclones football team

1903 Iowa State Cyclones football
1903 Iowa State Cyclones football
Conference	Independent
Record	8–1
Head coach	A. W. Ristine (2nd season);
Captain	Preston Daniels
Home stadium	State Field
	Seasons ← 1902 1904 →

1903 Midwestern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Nebraska		–		11	–	0	–	0
North Dakota		–		7	–	0	–	0
Central Michigan		–		6	–	0	–	0
Notre Dame		–		8	–	0	–	1
Iowa State		–		8	–	1	–	0
Marquette		–		7	–	1	–	0
Lake Forest		–		6	–	1	–	0
North Dakota Agricultural		–		5	–	1	–	0
Haskell		–		7	–	2	–	0
St. Xavier		–		7	–	2	–	0
Fairmount		–		6	–	2	–	0
Wabash		–		9	–	3	–	0
Wittenberg		–		5	–	2	–	1
Doane		–		2	–	1	–	0
Northern Illinois State		–		4	–	2	–	0
American Medical		–		6	–	3	–	0
Kansas		–		6	–	3	–	0
Drake		–		5	–	3	–	0
Kirksville Osteopaths		–		5	–	3	–	0
Iowa State Normal		–		4	–	3	–	1
Ohio Medical		–		5	–	4	–	0
Lincoln (MO)		–		1	–	1	–	0
Michigan State Normal		–		4	–	4	–	0
Washington University		–		4	–	4	–	2
Heidelberg		–		3	–	4	–	2
Kansas State		–		3	–	4	–	1
Detroit College		–		3	–	4	–	0
Shurtleff		–		2	–	4	–	1
Ohio		–		2	–	4	–	0
South Dakota Agricultural		–		1	–	2	–	0
Mount Union		–		2	–	5	–	1
DePauw		–		2	–	6	–	1
Miami (OH)		–		1	–	4	–	0
Missouri		–		1	–	7	–	1
Western Illinois		–		0	–	3	–	1
Cincinnati		–		1	–	8	–	0
Baldwin–Wallace		–		0	–	1	–	0
Buchtel		–		0	–	2	–	0
Butler		–		0	–	3	–	0
Chicago P&S		–		0	–	4	–	0

The 1903 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1903 college football season. In their second season under head coach A. W. Ristine, the Cyclones compiled an 8–1 record, shut out five of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 202 to 59.^[1]^[2] Preston Daniels was the team captain.^[2] The only loss of the year was to eventual National Champions Minnesota.

Between 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library.^[3] The field was known as State Field; when the new field opened in 1914, it became known as "New State Field".^[4] season results table

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 25		Highland Park	State Field Ames, IA	W 16–0
October 3	3:00 p.m.	at Omaha Light Guards	Manawa Field Council Bluffs, IA	W 18–0	1,000	^[5]
October 10		at Minnesota	Northrop Field Minneapolis, MN	L 0–46
October 17		Coe	State Field Ames, IA	W 36–5
October 31		South Dakota	State Field Ames, IA	W 23–0
November 7	2:35 p.m.	at Grinnell	Grinnell, IA	W 41–6
November 14		at Simpson	Indianola, IA	W 11–2
November 20		at Cornell (IA)	Mount Vernon, IA	W 41–0
November 26		at Drake	Des Moines, IA	W 16–0		^[6]

References

^ "1903 Iowa State Cyclones Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
^ ^a ^b "2017 Iowa State Football Fact Book" (PDF). Iowa State University. 2017. p. 129. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
^ "Iowa State Football History: The 1890s". cyclones.com. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
^ "Football Game". The Iowa Heritage Collection. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
^ "1903 Iowa State Football @ Omaha Light Guards - Recap". The des Moines Register. October 4, 1903. p. 8.
^ "Cyclones From Ames Swept Field". The Register and Leader (Des Moines, Iowa). November 27, 1903. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.