1917 Canton Bulldogs season
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The 1917 Canton Bulldogs
season was their eleventh season in the Ohio League
. The team finished with a 9-1 record and captured their third Ohio League championship.
Canton Bulldogs
The Canton Bulldogs were a professional American football team, based in Canton, Ohio. They played in the Ohio League from 1903 to 1906 and 1911 to 1919, and its successor, the National Football League, from 1920 to 1923 and again from 1925 to 1926. The Bulldogs would go on to win the 1917, 1918...
season was their eleventh season in the Ohio League
Ohio League
The Ohio League was an informal and loose association of American football clubs active between 1903 and 1919 that competed for the Ohio Independent Championship . As the name implied, its teams were based in Ohio...
. The team finished with a 9-1 record and captured their third Ohio League championship.
Schedule
| Game | Date | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 7, 1917 | Pitcairn Quakers Pitcairn Quakers The Pitcairn Quakers were a professional football team from Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. The team played as an independent from 1904 until 1920 and featured the best players in the community as well as some famous college-level players. A few of those players, were college All-Americans. At one time the... |
W 12-7 |
| 2 | October 14, 1917 | Altoona Indians | W 80-0 |
| 3 | October 21, 1917 | Columbus Panhandles | W 54-0 |
| 4 | October 28, 1917 | Rochester Jeffersons Rochester Jeffersons The Rochester Jeffersons from Rochester, New York played in the National Football League from 1920 to 1925.Formed as an amateur outfit by a rag-tag group of Rochester-area teenagers after the turn of the century , the team became known as the Jeffersons in reference to the locale of their playing... |
W 41-0 |
| 5 | November 4, 1917 | at Youngstown Patricians Youngstown Patricians The Youngstown Patricians were a semi-professional football team based in Youngstown, Ohio. In the 1910s, the team briefly held the professional football championship and established itself as a fierce rival of more experienced clubs around the country, some of which later formed the core of the... |
W 3-0 |
| 6 | November 11, 1917 | at Akron Indians | W 14-0 |
| 7 | November 18, 1917 | Youngstown Patricians Youngstown Patricians The Youngstown Patricians were a semi-professional football team based in Youngstown, Ohio. In the 1910s, the team briefly held the professional football championship and established itself as a fierce rival of more experienced clubs around the country, some of which later formed the core of the... |
W 13-0 |
| 8 | November 25, 1917 | Massillon Tigers Massillon Tigers The Massillon Tigers were an early professional football team from Massillon, Ohio. Playing in the "Ohio League", the team was a rival to the pre-National Football League version of the Canton Bulldogs. The Tigers won Ohio League championships in 1903, 1904, 1905, and 1906, then merged to become... |
W 14-3 |
| 9 | November 29, 1917 | at Detroit Heralds | W 7-0 |
| 10 | December 2, 1917 | Massillon Tigers Massillon Tigers The Massillon Tigers were an early professional football team from Massillon, Ohio. Playing in the "Ohio League", the team was a rival to the pre-National Football League version of the Canton Bulldogs. The Tigers won Ohio League championships in 1903, 1904, 1905, and 1906, then merged to become... |
L 6-0 |