1897 College Football EWP Ratings
Through games of 01/01/1970
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| Team | W | L | T | PF | PA | EWP | # | PWP | # | WWP | # | Power | # | SDev | # | Schedule | # |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | 0 | 0 | 346 | 16 | 0.939 | 1 | 0.901 | 2 | 0.977 | 1 | 39.23 | 2 | 13.53 | 6 | 0.556 | 18 |
| Princeton | 8 | 1 | 0 | 274 | 6 | 0.922 | 2 | 0.931 | 1 | 0.913 | 4 | 43.41 | 1 | 13.15 | 9 | 0.599 | 13 |
| Harvard | 8 | 1 | 1 | 187 | 20 | 0.885 | 3 | 0.853 | 3 | 0.917 | 3 | 32.09 | 4 | 10.29 | 16 | 0.619 | 11 |
| Yale | 7 | 0 | 2 | 144 | 29 | 0.875 | 4 | 0.804 | 6 | 0.946 | 2 | 28.31 | 6 | 12.13 | 11 | 0.624 | 10 |
| Army | 5 | 1 | 1 | 176 | 37 | 0.836 | 5 | 0.839 | 4 | 0.833 | 5 | 32.17 | 3 | 13.45 | 8 | 0.561 | 17 |
| Cornell | 3 | 3 | 1 | 111 | 42 | 0.747 | 6 | 0.807 | 5 | 0.686 | 10 | 28.49 | 5 | 11.92 | 12 | 0.673 | 7 |
| Wisconsin | 3 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 8 | 0.734 | 7 | 0.751 | 8 | 0.717 | 9 | 21.85 | 9 | 2.75 | 27 | 0.255 | 29 |
| Lafayette | 6 | 2 | 1 | 152 | 113 | 0.705 | 8 | 0.608 | 11 | 0.801 | 6 | 15.76 | 10 | 17.72 | 2 | 0.522 | 21 |
| Brown | 4 | 4 | 0 | 92 | 148 | 0.668 | 9 | 0.609 | 10 | 0.727 | 7 | 14.82 | 11 | 12.89 | 10 | 0.727 | 3 |
| Navy | 2 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 34 | 0.663 | 10 | 0.607 | 12 | 0.719 | 8 | 12.96 | 12 | 3.13 | 26 | 0.542 | 19 |
| Carlisle | 2 | 4 | 0 | 92 | 86 | 0.662 | 11 | 0.756 | 7 | 0.569 | 13 | 23.59 | 8 | 9.55 | 17 | 0.734 | 2 |
| Dartmouth | 2 | 3 | 0 | 106 | 77 | 0.658 | 12 | 0.743 | 9 | 0.572 | 12 | 24.92 | 7 | 15.76 | 4 | 0.715 | 4 |
| Chicago | 3 | 1 | 0 | 68 | 53 | 0.622 | 13 | 0.564 | 13 | 0.681 | 11 | 10.74 | 13 | 2.39 | 28 | 0.463 | 23 |
| Wesleyan | 5 | 7 | 0 | 103 | 179 | 0.475 | 14 | 0.475 | 14 | 0.475 | 15 | 6.98 | 14 | 11.43 | 13 | 0.579 | 15 |
| Tufts | 4 | 4 | 0 | 62 | 99 | 0.471 | 15 | 0.441 | 17 | 0.501 | 14 | 5.20 | 17 | 7.54 | 19 | 0.501 | 22 |
| Bucknell | 1 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 97 | 0.389 | 16 | 0.402 | 20 | 0.375 | 17 | 2.73 | 20 | 14.53 | 5 | 0.680 | 6 |
| Dickinson | 2 | 3 | 0 | 48 | 60 | 0.382 | 17 | 0.414 | 19 | 0.349 | 18 | 3.20 | 19 | 17.14 | 3 | 0.442 | 24 |
| Penn St. | 1 | 6 | 0 | 27 | 141 | 0.365 | 18 | 0.432 | 18 | 0.298 | 20 | 4.54 | 18 | 13.45 | 7 | 0.707 | 5 |
| Illinois | 1 | 2 | 0 | 52 | 45 | 0.357 | 19 | 0.468 | 15 | 0.247 | 22 | 6.59 | 15 | 1.51 | 30 | 0.429 | 25 |
| Trinity (CT) | 1 | 4 | 0 | 38 | 72 | 0.355 | 20 | 0.455 | 16 | 0.255 | 21 | 5.86 | 16 | 7.36 | 20 | 0.567 | 16 |
| Northwestern | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 43 | 0.335 | 21 | 0.284 | 23 | 0.386 | 16 | -2.20 | 23 | 2.05 | 29 | 0.664 | 8 |
| Michigan | 2 | 1 | 0 | 60 | 25 | 0.295 | 22 | 0.368 | 21 | 0.222 | 24 | 1.73 | 21 | 5.49 | 24 | 0.123 | 30 |
| Lehigh | 2 | 7 | 0 | 42 | 261 | 0.263 | 23 | 0.215 | 26 | 0.310 | 19 | -7.06 | 25 | 7.97 | 18 | 0.646 | 9 |
| Bowdoin | 0 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 62 | 0.246 | 24 | 0.302 | 22 | 0.191 | 26 | -1.84 | 22 | 7.02 | 21 | 0.594 | 14 |
| Franklin & Marshall | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 137 | 0.236 | 25 | 0.248 | 24 | 0.225 | 23 | -8.85 | 26 | 18.73 | 1 | 0.776 | 1 |
| Amherst | 1 | 6 | 1 | 14 | 178 | 0.201 | 26 | 0.195 | 27 | 0.207 | 25 | -9.34 | 27 | 10.53 | 15 | 0.535 | 20 |
| M.I.T. | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 0.169 | 27 | 0.220 | 25 | 0.118 | 29 | -6.07 | 24 | 5.27 | 25 | 0.304 | 27 |
| Williams | 0 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 179 | 0.159 | 28 | 0.192 | 28 | 0.127 | 28 | -9.80 | 28 | 11.10 | 14 | 0.617 | 12 |
| Purdue | 1 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 68 | 0.106 | 29 | 0.047 | 30 | 0.164 | 27 | -21.56 | 30 | 6.37 | 23 | 0.263 | 28 |
| Minnesota | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 0.051 | 30 | 0.067 | 29 | 0.036 | 30 | -18.99 | 29 | 6.38 | 22 | 0.326 | 26 |