1897 Buffalo football team

1897 Buffalo football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–1
Head coach
CaptainWilliam J. Bott
Home stadiumBuffalo Athletic Field
1897 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Penn    15 0 0
Princeton    10 1 0
Washington & Jefferson    10 1 0
Yale    9 0 2
Buffalo    9 1 0
Harvard    10 1 1
Army    6 1 1
Vermont    3 0 2
Lafayette    9 2 1
Drexel    6 2 1
Colgate    5 2 1
Dickinson    7 3 2
Swarthmore    7 3 2
Fordham    2 1 1
Cornell    5 3 1
Syracuse    5 3 1
Brown    7 4 0
Carlisle    6 4 0
Boston College    4 3 0
Holy Cross    4 3 1
Bucknell    3 3 1
NYU    3 3 0
Temple    3 3 0
Trinity (CT)    4 4 1
Wesleyan    6 6 0
Tufts    6 7 0
Geneva    3 4 1
Pittsburgh College    3 5 2
Villanova    3 5 1
Penn State    3 6 0
Amherst    2 6 2
Frankin & Marshall    2 6 2
Lehigh    3 7 0
New Hampshire    2 5 0
Rutgers    2 5 0
Western Univ. Penn.    1 3 0

The 1897 Buffalo football team represented the University of Buffalo as an independent during the 1897 college football season. Led by C. W. Dibble in his first and only season as head coach, the team compiled a record of 9–1. Buffalo beat the Syracuse Orangemen twice during the season.