1951 Bucknell Bison football team

The 1951 Bucknell Bison football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University as an independent during the 1951 college football season.

1951 Bucknell Bison football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–0
Head coach
Captains
  • Robert R. Albert Jr.
  • George B. Young
Home stadiumMemorial Stadium
Seasons
← 1950
1952 →
1951 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Bucknell  900
No. 6 Princeton  900
Susquehanna  600
Trenton State  600
Northeastern  601
No. 19 Holy Cross  820
Carnegie Tech  620
Hofstra  621
Cornell  630
No. 16 Boston University  640
Temple  640
Columbia  530
Villanova  530
Fordham  540
Franklin & Marshall  540
Penn  540
Penn State  540
Syracuse  540
Buffalo  440
Colgate  450
Dartmouth  450
Drexel  340
Harvard  351
Boston College  360
Yale  252
Pittsburgh  370
Geneva  250
Army  270
Brown  270
NYU  170
Tufts  072
Rankings from AP Poll

In its fifth season under head coach Harry Lawrence, the team compiled a 9–0 record.[1] Robert R. Albert Jr. and George B. Young were the team captains.[2] The team was ranked at No. 64 in the 1951 Litkenhous Ratings.[3]

The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium on the university campus in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 22vs. GettysburgW 41–7 12,000 [4]
September 29 MuhlenbergW 54–19 6,500 [5]
October 6at LehighW 47–7 8,000 [6]
October 13at Kent StateW 13–7[7]
October 20 Buffalo
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lewisburg, PA
W 62–32 6,500 [8]
October 27at LafayetteW 40–21 5,000 [9]
November 3 Temple
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lewisburg, PA
W 28–7 10,000 [10]
November 10at ColgateW 21–20[1]
November 17 Delaware
  • Memorial Stadium
  • Lewisburg, PA
W 33–6 7,000 [11]
  • Homecoming

References