1906 Saint Louis Blue and White football team

The 1906 Saint Louis Blue and White football team was an American football team that represented Saint Louis University as an independent during the 1906 college football season. In its first season under head coach Eddie Cochems, the team compiled a perfect 11–0 record and outscored opponents by a total of 407 to 11.

1906 Saint Louis Blue and White football
ConferenceIndependent
Record11–0
Head coach
CaptainClarence Kenney
Home stadiumHandlan's Park, Sportsman's Park
1906 Midwestern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Saint Louis   –  11 –0 –0
North Dakota Agricultural   –  5 –0 –0
Butler   –  1 –0 –0
Michigan State Normal   –  5 –0 –1
Iowa State   –  9 –1 –0
Ohio   –  7 –1 –0
Notre Dame   –  6 –1 –0
St. Mary's (OH)   –  5 –1 –0
Fairmount   –  7 –1 –2
Wabash   –  5 –1 –1
Kansas   –  7 –2 –2
Michigan Agricultural   –  7 –2 –2
Kansas State   –  5 –2 –0
Missouri   –  5 –2 –1
Detroit College   –  4 –2 –1
Northern Illinois State   –  4 –2 –1
Carthage   –  3 –2 –0
Lake Forest   –  3 –2 –0
Nebraska   –  6 –4 –0
Wittenberg   –  5 –4 –1
Heidelberg   –  3 –3 –1
Washington University   –  2 –2 –2
Beloit   –  3 –4 –1
Franklin   –  3 –4 –0
Doane   –  2 –3 –0
Shurtleff   –  2 –4 –2
Western State Normal (MI)   –  1 –2 –0
Mount Union   –  2 –5 –1
Drake   –  2 –5 –0
Haskell   –  2 –5 –0
Marquette   –  1 –4 –2
Chicago P&S   –  0 –1 –1
Cincinnati   –  0 –7 –2

The forward pass became legal in 1906, and Saint Louis is credited by some with having thrown the first legal forward pass in a September 5, 1906, game against Carroll College.[1] Football authority and College Football Hall of Fame coach David M. Nelson wrote that "E. B. Cochems is to forward passing what the Wright brothers are to aviation and Thomas Edison is to the electric light."[2] Halfback Bradbury Robinson led the team's early passing attack.

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 26at Carroll (WI)Waukesha, WIW 22–0[3]
September 29at LawrenceAppleton, WIW 6–0[4]
October 4at St. John's Military AcademyDelafield, WIW 27–0[5]
October 6at MarquetteMilwaukee, WIW 30–0[6]
October 13St. Charles Military Academy
W 33–0[7]
October 20Cape Girardeau Normal
W 59–0[8]
October 273:00 p.m.Missouri Mines
  • Sportsman's Park
  • St. Louis, MO
W 71–0[9][10]
November 3Kansas
  • Sportsman's Park
  • St. Louis, MO
W 34–2[11]
November 10Kansas City Medics
  • Sportsman's Park
  • St. Louis, MO
W 54–0[12]
November 172:30 p.m.Drake
  • Sportsman's Park
  • St. Louis, MO
W 32–9[13][14]
November 29Iowa
  • Sportsman's Park
  • St. Louis, MO
W 39–013,000[15][16]

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References
  1. "Courtesy of the National Football Foundation, "This week in college football history", The Phanatic Magazine, August 31, 2007". Archived from the original on April 15, 2014. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
  2. Nelson, David M. (1994). The Anatomy of a Game: Football, the Rules, and the Men Who Made the Game. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 0-87413-455-2., p. 128
  3. "Cochems' Eleven in First Game". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. St. Louis, Missouri. September 25, 1906. p. 13. Retrieved January 18, 2023 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  4. "St. Louis U. Team Trims Lawrence". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. September 30, 1906. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Football Notes". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. October 5, 1906. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "St. Louis U. Runs Over Marquette". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. October 7, 1906. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "St. Louis University Plays Fine Football". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. October 14, 1906. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Cochems' Coaching Produces Results". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. October 21, 1905. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "New Formations to Be Tried by St. L. U. in Game To-Day". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. St. Louis, Missouri. October 27, 1906. p. 15. Retrieved January 18, 2023 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  10. "Miners Soft for St. Louis U." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. October 28, 1906. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "St. Louis University Displays Brilliant Style Rugby -- Defeats Kansas in Hollow Fashion". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. November 4, 1906. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Cochems' Bad Boys Loaf, But Triumph". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. November 11, 1906. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Four Rugby Games For St. Louis City". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. St. Louis, Missouri. November 17, 1906. p. 6. Retrieved January 4, 2023 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  14. "St. Louis Plays Brilliant Rugby: Cochems Chicks Outplay Iowa Drakes". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. November 18, 1906. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. "Cochems, Leader of the New Rugby". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. November 30, 1906. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. "Iowa Overwhelmed by St. Louis U." The Register and Leader (Des Moines). November 30, 1906. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. The Blue and White, 1907
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