1897 NCAA Football Rankings

  # Team                        W      L     Rating 
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  1 Pennsylvania               12   -  0     2.3954 
  2 Yale                        9   -  1     1.4008 
  3 Princeton                   8   -  1     1.3802 
  4 Harvard                     8.5 -  1.5   1.1060 
  5 Wisconsin                   3   -  0     1.0572 
  6 Army                        5.5 -  1.5   0.8260 
  7 Lafayette                   7.5 -  2.5   0.7721 
  8 Chicago                     3   -  1     0.5832 
  9 Brown                       5   -  4     0.5205 
 10 Cornell                     3.5 -  3.5   0.4551 

 11 Dartmouth                   3   -  3     0.4384 
 12 Carlisle                    3   -  4     0.3881 
 13 Navy                        2   -  1     0.3854 
 14 Michigan                    2   -  1     0.3807 
 15 Wesleyan                    5   -  7     0.3258 
 16 Bucknell                    2   -  3     0.2858 
 17 Dickinson                   2   -  3     0.2403 
 18 Purdue                      1   -  2     0.2148 
 19 Illinois                    1   -  2     0.2131 
 20 Penn State                  2   -  6     0.2101 

 21 Northwestern                0   -  2     0.2001 
 22 Tufts                       1   -  4     0.1934 
 23 Lehigh                      2   -  7     0.1652 
 24 Trinity (Connecticut)       1   -  4     0.1590 
 25 Franklin & Marshall         0   -  4     0.1529 
 26 Minnesota                   0   -  3     0.1357 
 27 Newton A.C.                 0   -  4     0.1221 
 28 Bloomsburg                  0   -  4     0.1189 
 29 Williams                    0.5 -  6.5   0.0965 
 30 Amherst                     0.5 -  6.5   0.0773 

Home Field Coefficient: 1.6788