1917 Kentucky Derby
The 1917 Kentucky Derby was the 43rd running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 12, 1917. Horses Penrod, Diamond, and Sol Gilsey  scratched before the race. Winner Omar Khayyam, foaled in England, was the first foreign bred horse to win the Derby.


1917 Kentucky Wildcats football team
The 1917 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the Kentucky Wildcats of the University of Kentucky during the 1917 college football season. The season ended on a high note with the 52–0 defeat of Florida.


1917 Kilkenny City by-election
The Kilkenny City by-election of 1917 was held on 10 August 1917. It followed the death of the incumbent Irish Parliamentary Party MP, Pat O'Brien. It was won by the Sinn Féin candidate W. T. Cosgrave, who defeated John Magennis, a three-time Mayor of Kilkenny. Cosgrave won while he was in prison for his role in the Easter Rising.


1917 Kilkenny City by-election
Magennis went on to be Mayor on three more occasions, while Cosgrave went on to serve for ten years as President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.


1917 LSU Tigers football team
The 1917 LSU Tigers football team represented the LSU Tigers of Louisiana State University during the 1917 college football season.


1917 Lafayette football team
The 1917 Lafayette football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1917 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Punk Berryman, the team compiled a 3–5 record. Henry Lehr and Grant Scott were the team captains. The team played its home games at March Field in Easton, Pennsylvania.


1917 League Island Marines football team
The 1917 League Island Marines football team, sometimes referred to as "Mahan's Marines", represented the United States Marine Corps stationed at the League Island Navy Yard in Philadelphia during the 1917 college football season. Former Harvard star Eddie Mahan, a three-time All-American from 1913 to 1915, led the team.


1917 League Island Marines football team
Four League Island players were named to the 1917 All-Service football team: fullback Eddie Mahan (Paul Purman, first team); halfback Johnny Scott (New York Times, 1st team); tackle Corbeau (NYT, first team); and center Lud Wray (NYT, first team).


1917 Lehigh Brown and White football team
The 1917 Lehigh Brown and White football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1917 college football season. In its sixth season under head coach Tom Keady, the team compiled a 7–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 228 to 78. The team played its home games at Taylor Stadium in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.


1917 Liga Peruana de Football
The 1917 Primera División was the sixth season of top-flight Peruvian football. A total of 13 teams competed in the league, The champion was Juan Bielovucic.


1917 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
The 1917 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 25th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887.


1917 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
Newcastle West won the championship after a 3-04 to 3-01 defeat of Young Irelands in the final. It was their first ever championship title.


1917 Liverpool Abercromby by-election
The Liverpool Abercromby by-election, 1917 was a parliamentary by-election held on 28 June 1917 for the British House of Commons constituency of Liverpool Abercromby. The seat had become vacant when the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Richard Chaloner had taken the post of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds on 18 June 1917, thus effectively resigning from the Commons. Five days later, Chaloner was created Baron Gisborough. He had been MP from Liverpool Abercromby since the January 1910 general election. The Conservative candidate, Lord Stanley held the seat for the party. He remained the constituency's MP until the seat was abolished for the 1918 general election.


1917 Liverpool Abercromby by-election
Neither the Labour Party or Liberal Party stood, and the Conservatives' only opponent was the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers.


1917 Los Angeles mayoral election
The 1917 election for Mayor of Los Angeles took place on May 1, 1917. Incumbent Frederick T. Woodman was re-elected.


1917 Louisiana Industrial football team
The 1917 Louisiana Industrial football team was an American football team that represented the Louisiana Industrial Institute—now known as Louisiana Tech University—as a member of the Louisiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association (LIAA) during the 1917 college football season. Led by Villis Stephen Pugh in his first and only season as head coach, Louisiana Industrial compiled an overall record of 2–3.


1917 Macquarie state by-election
The 1917 Macquarie state by-election was held for the New South Wales state electoral district of Macquarie on 28 July 1917. The by-election was triggered by the death of Australian Labor Party MP Thomas Thrower, who had died only three months after being re-elected at the 1917 state election.


1917 Macquarie state by-election
Labor preselected as their candidate Patrick McGirr, a member of the Parkes Land Board and the brother of Greg McGirr, the state member for Yass. McGirr was selected overwhelmingly from a broad field that included Iron Trades Federation secretary E. M. Davies, Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Association assistant secretary R. Corish, radical Sydney Wharf Laborers' Union president William McCristal and unsuccessful federal or state election candidates T. Lavelle, I. A. Vitnell, Tom Brown and W. J. Boston.


1917 Macquarie state by-election
The preselection process for the new conservative Nationalist Party was somewhat chaotic, with different meetings of local interests and organisations that had come together to form the new party recommending different candidates to the state executive. The eventual executive decision largely came down to two candidates: Wellington miller Murdoch McLeod and Dubbo businessman H. T. Blackett, but also saw some support for former federal MP Ernest Carr, who had lost his seat at that year's election, with McLeod ultimately endorsed as the candidate.


1917 Macquarie state by-election
A third candidate, former federal MP Frank Foster, is often recorded as having contested as an independent or "Independent Nationalist", but campaigned for his own new minor party, the Australian Producers Co-Operative Party. Foster had been a Labor MP until losing his seat in 1913 and had left the party in the 1916 Labor split, but had not joined the Nationalist Party and had instead sought to form his own party taking a middle position between the two parties.


1917 Macquarie state by-election
McGirr won the by-election, finishing 239 votes ahead of McLeod with Foster a distant third, an increase on the Labor majority from the general election. McGirr was reported to have polled well in the larger centres while McLeod had performed better in the rural booths.


1917 Macquarie state by-election
The pro-Labor National Advocate newspaper in Bathurst described the result as a "magnificent success" that showed that the party was recovering from "the defection of the renegades" in the 1916 party split; they also noted that the result in the usually marginal seat was "the greatest for over nine years" and suggested the margin would have been larger had it not been for Foster's candidacy.


1917 Macquarie state by-election
The more conservative Evening News in Sydney downplayed the result, stating "the two parties simply maintained their respective positions: no advantage has been gained by either side", but drew attention to the Nationalist failure to win the seat despite dedicating tremendous resources, stating "the eloquence of nearly every Minister in the New South Wales Government was released upon the electors of Macquarie, but it fell short of success. This needs some explanation."


1917 Maine Black Bears football team
The 1917 Maine Black Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of Maine during the 1917 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Thomas A. McCann, the team compiled a 1–3 record. Thomas Davis was the team captain.


1917 Major League Baseball season
The 1917 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 11 to October 15, 1917. The New York Giants and Chicago White Sox were the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The While Sox then defeated the Giants in the World Series, four games to two.


1917 Maltese general election
General elections were held in Malta on 20 and 21 October 1917. Two of the eight elected seats were left uncontested.


1917 Maltese general election, Background
The elections were held under the Chamberlain Constitution, with members elected from eight single-member constituencies.


1917 Mare Island Marines football team
The 1917 Mare Island Marines football team represented the United States Marine Corps stationed at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California, during the 1917 college football season. The team compiled an 8–0 record, won the 1918 Rose Bowl, shut out six opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 200 to 10.


1917 Marquette Hilltoppers football team
The 1917 Marquette Hilltoppers football team was an American football team that represented Marquette University as an independent during the 1917 college football season. In its first season under head coach John J. Ryan, the team compiled an 8–0–1 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 341 to 7.


1917 Marshall Thundering Herd football team
The 1917 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented Marshall College (now Marshall University) in the 1917 college football season. Marshall posted a 1–7–1 record, being outscored by its opposition 7–345. Home games were played on a campus field called "Central Field" which is presently Campus Commons.


1917 Maryland State Aggies football team
The 1917 Maryland State Aggies football team represented Maryland State College (which in 1920 became part of the University of Maryland) in the 1917 college football season. In their seventh season under head coach Curley Byrd, the Aggies compiled a 4–3–1 record, and were outscored by all opponents, 159 to 89. The team won games against Delaware (20–0), Wake Forest (29–13),  St. John's College (13–3), and Johns Hopkins (7–0), lost to Navy (0–62), North Carolina A&M (6–10), and Penn State (0–57), and played VMI to a tie (14–14).


1917 Massachusetts Aggies football team
The 1917 Massachusetts Aggies football team was to represent Massachusetts Agricultural College in the 1917 college football season. Mass Aggie did not field an official varsity football team during this season as most able-bodied men of college age were serving in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War I.


1917 Massachusetts legislature
The 138th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1917.


1917 Massillon Tigers season
The 1917 All-Massillons football season  was their eighth season in existence. It would be their last season until 1919, since the Tigers 1918 season was cancelled due to the outbreak of World War I and the Spanish flu pandemic.


1917 Mexican general election
General elections were held in Mexico on 11 March 1917. The result was an overwhelming victory for Venustiano Carranza of the Liberal Constitutionalist Party, who received 97% of the vote.


1917 Miami Redskins football team
The 1917 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University as a member of the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the 1917 college football season. In its first season under head coach George Rider, Miami compiled a 6–0–2 record (5–0–1 against conference opponents), held every opponent scoreless, and won the OAC championship.


1917 Miami Redskins football team
The season was part of a 27-game unbeaten streak that began in November 1915 and ended in October 1919.


1917 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team
The 1917 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team represented Michigan Agricultural College (MAC) in the 1917 college football season. In their ninth non-consecutive year under head coach Chester Brewer (Brewer previously coached the Aggies from 1903 to 1910), the Aggies compiled a 0–9 record and were outscored by their opponents 179 to 23.


1917 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team
This season marks the only time in team history in which they went winless on the field; in 1994, the Spartans finished with a 5-6 record, but this was changed to 0-11 after an academic scandal led to the forfeiture of their victories.


1917 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team, Game summaries, Michigan
On October 20, 1917, the Aggies played their annual game against Michigan at Ferry Field. It was the 12th game between the two schools dating back to 1898. Michigan had won eight of the prior 11 games. Michigan won the 1917 game by a score of 27 to 0. Michigan scored in the first quarter on a drive that featured a 30-yard run by Tad Wieman and was capped by a 15-yard touchdown run by Archie Weston. At halftime, the schools' combined bands led a detachment of troops onto the field and played the "Star Spangled Banner" and "The Victors".


1917 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team, Game summaries, Michigan
In the third quarter, the Wolverines scoring drive began with a 20-yard punt return by Weston with Wieman scoring on a seven-yard run. In the fourth quarter, Wieman ran through the middle of the M.A.C. line, "shook off five tacklers," and scored on a 35-yard touchdown run. Later in the fourth quarter, Weston ran 30 yards around the left end to the M.A.C. 12-yard line, and Wieman scored his third touchdown of the afternoon on a one-yard run.


1917 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team
The 1917 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team represented Michigan State Normal College (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1917 college football season. In their first season under head coach Elton Rynearson, the Normalites compiled a record of 3–4 and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 111 to 80. Andrus P. Wilson was the team captain.


1917 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team
In the summer of 1917, previous head coach Elmer Mitchell resigned to accept a coaching position with the University of Michigan. Elton Rynearson was hired as his replacement in July 1917. Rynearson was 24 years old at the time and had been coaching previously at the Polish seminary in Orchard Lake, Michigan. Rynearson served 26 years as the school's head football coach, compiling a record of 114–58–15 (.648), and his teams outscored their opponents, 2,574 to 1,415.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1917 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1917 college football season. In his 17th year as head coach, Fielding H. Yost led the Michigan Wolverines football team to an 8–2 record, as Michigan outscored its opponents by a combined score of 304 to 53. Michigan won its first eight games and outscored those opponents by a combined score of 292 to 16. The team then lost its final two games against Penn and Northwestern.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team
With the United States entry into World War I in April 1917, Michigan's male student body dropped by 30%, and Michigan lost many of its starters to military service. The players lost to the military included fullback Cedric "Pat" Smith, who had been elected to serve as captain of the 1917 team. With only one returning backfield player, coach Yost converted tackle Tad Wieman into a fullback. Wieman became the team's leading scorer in 1917 with 129 points on 14 touchdowns, 36 points after touchdown (PAT), and three field goals. After an injury to starting quarterback Cliff Sparks in the second game, Archie Weston took over and became the team's second leading scorer with 78 points on 13 touchdowns.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
On April 6, 1917, the United States declared war on the German Empire, marking its entry into World War I. In early August 1917, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) met with representatives of more than 125 colleges and universities to determine whether or not to proceed with intercollegiate athletics during the war. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker addressed the gathering, opined that intercollegiate athletics were an effective means of training for military service, and recommended that efforts be undertaken to expand the number of persons receiving this training. The gathering then passed a resolution providing for the continuation of intercollegiate athletics with an emphasis on carrying out the recommendations of the Secretary of War.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
As students enlisted in large numbers for military service, the enrollment of male students at the University of Michigan dropped by thirty percent (30%) in the fall of 1917. Several of Michigan veteran players (including Cedric "Pat" Smith, Philip Raymond, Willard Peach, John West, J. Vinton Hammels, and Frank Willard) were unavailable to the team due to military service. The losses left the team with only six players (Cliff Sparks, Tad Wieman, Richard Weske, Alan Boyd, Joseph Hanish, and John Orton Goodsell) who had ever played on the first team. With only one returning backfield player (Sparks), Yost converted tackle Tad Wieman into a fullback.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: Case
On October 6, 1917, Michigan played its annual game against the team from Case Scientific School in Cleveland. The game was the 21st meeting between the schools in a series dating back to 1894. In the 20 prior meetings, Michigan won 19 games and played to a tie once.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: Case
Michigan won the 1917 game by a 41–0 score. Tad Wieman, in his first game after being converted into a fullback, scored three touchdowns. Wieman also kicked five points after touchdown (PAT) for a total of 23 points in the game. Quarterback Cliff Sparks scored two touchdowns, and substitute right halfback Harold Rye also scored once. Case made only one first down.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: Case
The game was played in 12-1/2 minute quarters. Michigan's starting lineup against Case was Elmer Cress (left end), Frank Culver (left tackle), Alan Boyd (left guard), Charles Beath (center), John Orton Goodsell (right guard), Richard Weske (right tackle), Oscar Cartwright (right end), Cliff Sparks (quarterback), Joseph Hanish (left halfback), Abe Cohn (right halfback), and Tad Wieman (fullback). Substitutes appearing in the game for Michigan were Julius St. Clair (right end), Harold Rye (right halfback), Gerald Froemke (left halfback), Angus Goetz (right guard), Fred Hendershott (left end), Lowell Genebach (quarterback), William Fortune (right guard), and C. H. Graff (right tackle).


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Kalamazoo Normal
On Wednesday, October 10, 1917, Michigan played the football team from the Kalamazoo Normal School (later renamed Western Michigan University). The game was the first game between the two schools, and the two programs met only one other time in the 20th century.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Kalamazoo Normal
Michigan won the game by a score of 17 to 13. Michigan led 10-7 at the start of the fourth quarter, but Kalamazoo Normal scored a touchdown with four minutes remaining to take a 13-10 lead. On the following drive, halfback Harold Rye returned the kickoff 35 yards, and Abe Cohn then had a long run. Fullback Tad Wieman accounted for all of Michigan's points, scoring two touchdowns, kicking two points after touchdown, and one field goal from place kick. Michigan quarterback Cliff Sparks was injured in the game and did not start another game.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: Kalamazoo Normal
The game was played in quarters lasting 7-1/2, 7-1/2, 10 and 10 minutes. Michigan's starting lineup against Kalamazoo Normal was Angus Goetz (left end), Frank Culver (left tackle), Alan Boyd (left guard), John Orton Goodsell (center), William Fortune (right guard), Richard Weske (right tackle), Oscar Cartwright (right end), Cliff Sparks (quarterback), Abe Cohn (left halfback), Joseph Hanish (right halfback), and Tad Wieman (fullback). Substitutes appearing in the game for Michigan were Elmer Cress (left end), Rye (right halfback), St. Clair (right end), and Lowell Genebach (quarterback).


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Mount Union
On Saturday, October 13, 1917, Michigan played the football team Mount Union College of Alliance, Ohio. The game was the fifth game between the two schools since 1913, with Michigan winning the prior games by a combined score of 102 to 7.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Mount Union
Michigan won the 1917 game by a score of 69 to 0. Left halfback Abe Cohn started the scoring with a touchdown run in the first quarter. Archie Weston came into the game as a substitute at quarterback at the start of the second quarter and scored five touchdowns, including a 65-yard touchdown run around the right end. Additional touchdowns were scored by Gerald Froemke, Tad Wieman, Thomas Garrett, and William Cruse. Wieman also kicked for eight points after touchdown (PAT), and Frank Culver added one PAT.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Mount Union
The game was played in 12-minute quarters. Michigan's starting lineup against Case was Angus Goetz (left end), Alan Boyd (left tackle), Julius St. Clair (left guard), Charles Beath (center), John Orton Goodsell (right guard), Richard Weske (right tackle), Oscar Cartwright (right end), Lowell Genebach (quarterback), Cohn (left halfback), Harold Rye (right halfback), and Wieman (fullback).


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Mount Union
Substitutes appearing in the game for Michigan were Weston (quarterback), Froemke (right halfback), Fred Hendershott (left end), William Fortune (right guard), Frank Culver (right guard), Thomas Garrett (fullback), Chester Morrison (right end), Elmer Cress (left end), William Cruse (left halfback), Arthur Weadock (right halfback), L. O. Lindstrom (left guard), and Harold Barnard (left tackle).


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Detroit
On Wednesday, October 17, 1917, Michigan played the football team University of Detroit. The game was the first and only football game ever played between the two schools. The Detroit team came into the game with a reputation for its powerful offense, having scored 145 the week before against the University of Toledo.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Detroit
Michigan won the game by a score of 14 to 3. An interception led to a Michigan touchdown in the second quarter, and two forward passes led to another touchdown in the third quarter. Michigan's touchdowns were scored by Angus Goetz and Tad Wieman. Wieman also kicked two points after touchdown. Detroit scored on a dropkick field goal by halfback Allen. The game marked the Michigan debut of center Oscar Lambert who reportedly made fifty percent of Michigan's tackles.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Detroit
The game was played in 10-minute quarters. Michigan's starting lineup against Detroit was Angus Goetz (left end), John Orton Goodsell (left tackle), Alan Boyd (left guard), Oscar Lambert (center), Frank Culver (right guard), Richard Weske (right tackle), Hanish (right end), Archie Weston (quarterback), Abe Cohn (left halfback), Froemke (right halfback), and Tad Wieman (fullback). Substitutes appearing in the game for Michigan were William Fortune (right guard), Oscar Cartwright (right end), L. O. Lindstrom (left tackle), Lowell Geneback (quarterback).


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: Michigan Agricultural
Michigan played its annual game against Michigan Agricultural College at Ferry Field on October 20, 1917. It was the 12th game between the two schools dating back to 1898. Michigan had won eight of the prior 11 games.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: Michigan Agricultural
Michigan won the 1917 game by a score of 27 to 0. Michigan scored in the first quarter on a drive that featured a 30-yard run by Tad Wieman and was capped by a 15-yard touchdown run by Archie Weston. Wieman missed the kick for point after touchdown (PAT). At halftime, the schools' combined bands led a detachment of troops onto the field and played the "Star Spangled Banner" and "The Victors". In the third quarter, the Wolverines scoring drive began with a 20-yard punt return by Weston with Wieman scoring on a seven-yard run.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: Michigan Agricultural
Wieman then kicked the PAT to give the Wolverines a 13-0 lead. In the fourth quarter, Wieman ran through the middle of the M.A.C. line, "shook off five tacklers," and scored on a 35-yard touchdown run. Wieman added the PAT. Later in the fourth quarter, Weston ran 30 yards around the left end to the M.A.C. 12-yard line, and Wieman scored his third touchdown of the afternoon on a one-yard run. Wieman then kicked his third PAT for 21 points in the game.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: Michigan Agricultural
Michigan's starting lineup against M.A.C. included Goetz (left end), Goodsell (left tackle), Boyd (left guard), Oscar Lambert (center), Frank Culver (right guard), Weske (right tackle), Cartwright (right end), Archie Weston (quarterback), Abe Cohn (left halfback), Genebach (right halfback), and Tad Wieman (fullback). Substitutes appearing in the game for Michigan were Rye (right halfback), Cruse (left halfback), Hanish (left halfback), Froemke (left halfback), William Fortune (right guard), Barnard (right halfback), Cress, Hendershott, Weadock, Wellford, Garrett, and St. Clair.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Nebraska
On October 27, 1917, Michigan played the football team from the University of Nebraska. The game was the first between the two schools. The 1918 Michiganensian described the field conditions this way: "The heavy field, soaked by a week's rain, hampered the Nebraska boys while the Michiganders seemed to revel in the goo."


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Nebraska
Michigan won by a score of 20 to 0. Michigan's two touchdowns were scored by left halfback Gerald Froemke and fullback Tad Wieman. Wieman scored 14 of Michigan's 20 points, kicking two points after touchdown and two field goals in addition to his touchdown. Froemke's touchdown came in the first quarter when he recovered a fumble at Nebraska's 10-yard line and, behind the blocking of Wieman and Archie Weston, returned the ball 90 yards for a touchdown.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Nebraska
The game was played in 15-minute quarters. Michigan's starting lineup against Nebraska was Angus Goetz (left end), John Orton Goodsell (left tackle), Frank Culver (left guard), Oscar Lambert (center), William Fortune (right guard), Richard Weske (right tackle), Boyd (right end), Archie Weston (quarterback), Froemke (left halfback), Joseph Hanish (right halfback), and Wieman (fullback). Substitutes appearing in the game for Michigan were William Cruse (left halfback), Harold Rye (left halfback), Lowell Genebach (left halfback), Lee Bonar (left end) and Chester Morrison (right guard).


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Kalamazoo
On November 3, 1917, Michigan played the football team from Kalamazoo College. The game was the fifth between the two schools dating back to 1899. Michigan had won the four previous games by a combined score of 177 to 0.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Kalamazoo
Michigan won the 1917 game by a score of 62 to 0. Quarterback Archie Weston gained over 300 yards, including runs of 60 yards, 35 yards and two for 25 yards. Weston also scored four touchdowns in the game. Tad Wieman and William Cruse scored two touchdowns each, and a ninth touchdown was scored by Gerald Froemke. Wieman also kicked for eight points after touchdown.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: Kalamazoo
The game was played in 15-minute quarters. Michigan's starting lineup against Kalamazoo was Angus Goetz (left end), John Orton Goodsell (left tackle), Frank Culver (left guard), Oscar Lambert (center), William Fortune (right guard), Richard Weske (right tackle), Oscar Cartwright (right end), Archie Weston (quarterback), Gerald Froemke (left halfback), Joseph Hanish (right halfback), and Tad Wieman (fullback). Substitutes appearing in the game for Michigan were Lowell Genebach (right halback), Lee Bonar (left end), William Cruse (left halfback), Alan Boyd (right end), Chester Morrison (right tackle), and Thomas Garrett (center).


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Cornell
On November 3, 1917, Michigan played the football team from Cornell University. The game was the 15th meeting of the teams dating back to 1889. Michigan had won only three of the prior 14 meetings.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Cornell
Michigan won the 1917 game by a score of 42 to 0. Michigan quarterback Archie Weston scored three touchdowns. Additional touchdowns were scored by Cliff Sparks, Joseph Hanish, and Abe Cohn. Tad Wieman was successful on all six kicks for point after touchdown.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Cornell
The game was played in 15-minute quarters. Michigan's starting lineup against Cornell was Angus Goetz (left end), John Orton Goodsell (left tackle), Frank Culver (left guard), Oscar Lambert (center), William Fortune (right guard), Richard Weske (right tackle), Alan Boyd (right end), Archie Weston (quarterback), Cliff Sparks (left halfback), Joseph Hanish (right halfback), and TAd Wieman (fullback).


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: at Penn
On November 17, 1917, Michigan played its annual rivalry game against the Penn Quakers football team. The game was the 13th meeting between the teams dating back to 1899. After leaving the Big Ten Conference, Penn became Michigan's regular season-ending rivalry game. In the 12 prior meetings, Michigan had won only four times, with the two teams playing to a scoreless tie in 1915.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: at Penn
Michigan lost the 1917 game by a score of 16 to 0. Michigan and Penn played "almost even" in the first quarter with Penn gaining 53 yards from scrimmage to 45 for Michigan. However, at the start of the second quarter, Michigan's quarterback Archie Weston was ejected from the game after a fight with two Penn players, Miller and Strauss. After Weston was ejected, Penn dominated the game, limiting Michigan to only seven yards from scrimmage in the entire second half. Penn's scoring came on a touchdown by Cleary and three field goals and a point after touchdown by Howard Berry.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: at Penn
The game was played in 15-minute quarters. Michigan's starting lineup against Northwestern was Angus Goetz (left end), Goodsell (left tackle), Frank Culver (left guard), Oscar Lambert (center), William Fortune (right guard), Richard Weske (right tackle), Boyd (right end), Archie Weston (quarterback), Abe Cohn (left halfback), Joseph Hanish (right halfback), and Tad Wieman (fullback).


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 10: at Northwestern
On November 24, 1917, Michigan played the football team from Northwestern University. The game was the 15th meeting of the teams dating back to 1889. Michigan had won only three of the prior 14 meetings. The game represented Michigan's first game against a conference opponent after rejoining the Big Ten Conference. Before the game started, the Northwestern crowd greeted the Wolverines warmly, and Walter Eckersall in the Chicago Tribune wrote: "That Michigan is welcomed in its return to the conference goes without saying."


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 10: at Northwestern
Michigan played the game with three of its key starters, quarterback Archie Weston, center Oscar Lambert, and guard Frank Culver) sidelined by injury.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 10: at Northwestern
Michigan lost the 1917 game by a score of 21 to 12. Northwestern scored first on a forward pass from Ellingwood to Arrles. Michigan responded with a scoring drive capped by a three-year run by Gerald Froemke, but Tad Wieman missed the point after touchdown (PAT), and Northwestern remained in the lead, 7-6. Northwestern scored again, on a short run by Koehler, and extended its lead to 14-6 at halftime. Northwestern scored again in the third period and led 21-6. In the fourth quarter, Froemke returned a punt 50 yards. Michigan scored a touchdown to reduce Northwestern's lead to 21-12, though accounts differ as to whether the second Michigan touchdown was scored by Froemke or Wieman.


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 10: at Northwestern
The game was played in 15-minute quarters. Michigan's starting lineup against Northwestern was Angus Goetz (left end), Wieman (left tackle), Alan Boyd (left guard), Goodsell (center), Morrison (right guard), Richard Weske (right tackle), Cartwright (right end), Froemke (quarterback), Rye (left halfback), Joseph Hanish (right halfback), and Abe Cohn (fullback). Substitutions for Michigan were Cliff Sparks (left halfback), William Fortune (right guard), and Morrison (left tackle).


1917 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Varsity letter winners
For their participation on the 1917 football team, 18 players were awarded a varsity letter "M". Those 18 players are:


1917 Middle Tennessee State Normal football team
The 1917 Middle Tennessee State Normal football team represented the Middle Tennessee State Normal School (now known as Middle Tennessee State University) during the 1917 college football season. The team captain was Preston Vaughn Overall.


1917 Milan–San Remo
The 1917 Milan–San Remo was the 10th edition of the Milan–San Remo cycle race and was held on 15 April 1917. The race started in Milan and finished in San Remo. The race was won by Gaetano Belloni.


1917 Mineola Aviation Station football team
The 1917 Mineola Aviation Station football team represented the United States Army aviators stationed at Mineola Aviation Station on Long Island during the 1917 college football season.


1917 Mineola Aviation Station football team
Raymond "Razor" Watkins, formerly of Colgate, played quarterback for Mineola and was selected by Walter Camp as the first-team quarterback on the 1917 All-Service football team.


1917 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
The 1917 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1917 college football season. In their 18th year under head coach Henry L. Williams, the Golden Gophers compiled a 4–1 record (3–1 against Western Conference opponents) and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 164 to 25.


1917 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
The 1917 season was almost canceled due to the United States entering World War I, but over the summer, the decision was made to play a reduced football schedule. The team finished second in the Big Ten.


1917 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
Tackle George Hauser was named an All-American by the Associated Press. Hauser was also named All-Big Ten first team.


1917 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team
The 1917 Mississippi A&M Aggies football team represented the Mississippi A&M Aggies of Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi during the 1917 college football season.


1917 Missouri Tigers football team
The 1917 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1917 college football season. The team compiled a 3–5 record (2–4 against MVC opponents), finished in fifth place in the conference, and was outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 124 to 98. Henry Schulte was the head coach for the fourth of four seasons. The team played its home games at Rollins Field in Columbia, Missouri.


1917 Montana State Bobcats football team
The 1917 Montana State Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented the Montana State College (later renamed Montana State University) during the 1917 college football season. In its fourth and final season under head coach Fred Bennion, the team compiled a 0–2–2 record and was outscored by a total of 69 to 41.


1917 Montana State Bobcats football team
Montana State was admitted as a member of the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) in 1917. The football team's record against conference opponents was 0–1–2.


1917 Montana football team
The 1917 Montana football team represented the University of Montana in the 1917 college football season. They were led by third-year head coach Jerry Nissen, played their home games at Dornblaser Field, and finished the season with a record of one win and four losses (1–4).


1917 Montana football team
The Spokesman-Review (of Spokane, Washington) referred to the team as the "Grizzlies" in its November 18 edition.


1917 Morningside Maroons football team
The 1917 Morningside Maroons football team represented the Morningside College during the 1917 college football season. In Jason M. Saunderson's fifth season with the Maroons, Morningside compiled a 5–1 record, and outscored their opponents 207 to 27.


1917 Murray state by-election
A by-election was held in the New South Wales state electoral district of Murray on 22 September 1917. The by-election was triggered by the death  of Robert Scobie (Nationalist).


1917 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The 1917 College Basketball All-American team, as chosen retroactively by the Helms Athletic Foundation. The player highlighted in gold was chosen as the Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year retroactively in 1944.


1917 NCAA baseball season
The 1917 NCAA baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1917. Play largely consisted of regional matchups, some organized by conferences, and ended in June. No national championship event was held until 1947.


1917 NCAA baseball season, Conference winners
This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1917 season.


1917 NSWRFL season
The 1917 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the tenth season of Sydney's professional rugby league football club competition, Australia's first. Eight teams from across the city contested during the season and Balmain finished on top of the ladder to claim the premiership.


1917 NSWRFL season, Season summary
After nine seasons with only nineteen wins and two draws from 115 matches, Western Suburbs finally made a significant impact on the league, finishing a respectable third behind the traditionally strong sides of Balmain and South Sydney. Their advance was almost entirely due to centre Herb Gilbert, who moved from Easts, Hull F.C. and South Sydney to add skill and knowledge to team crying out for guidance, besides scoring nine of the team's thirty-four tries.


1917 NSWRFL season, Season summary
Balmain ultimately won their third consecutive premiership finishing eight points ahead of second placed South Sydney. The Balmain side only failed to win one of their games during the season against Newtown in round 8. In fourteen games Balmain’s secure defence allowed a mere 61 points and just nine tries to be scored against them, a statistic indicating their dominance and rivalled since only by St. George in 1963. Annandale managed to avoid bottom spot thanks to Glebe surrendering their two points to them following a 31–5 win for Glebe in round 8. The points were moved over to Annandale due to Glebe fielding Dan “Laddo” Davies – an ineligible player under the residential criteria of the time.


1917 NSWRFL season, Season summary
As well as losing Davies, fourteen of Glebe’s first grade players were suspended for a year after the players boycotted a match against Balmain. The NSWRFL changed the venue of the game from the Sydney Cricket Ground to Birchgrove Oval in Balmain, drastically reducing spectator numbers and, in doing so, cutting Glebe's share of the big gate takings expected at the SCG. A team consisting of lower grade players was fielded and Glebe lost heavily, 40–9. The NSWRFL suspended all the footballers who refused to play, including Frank, Laidley and Albert Burge.


1917 NSWRFL season, Season summary
Balmain also won the three round City Cup played in the late season. Members of the Balmain premiership winning side included Bob Craig, Bill Schultz and E. Burnicle.


1917 NYU Violets football team
The 1917 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1917 college football season. In their only year under head coach Francis P. Wall, the team compiled a 2–2–3 record.


1917 Napier mayoral election
The Napier mayoral election, 1917 was held to determine the next Mayor of Napier. At this time Napier held their local elections biennially. In 1915, elections were held for the Mayor of Napier plus other local government positions. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.


1917 Napier mayoral election, Background and candidates
Finances were the major talking point of the contest. The council had an overdraft of around £20,000 caused by huge public works expenditure.


1917 Napier mayoral election, Background and candidates, Henry Hill
Hill practiced law in Napier, but made his name as a school inspector and earning a good reputation for public service. He was elected as a Napier City Councillor in 1915. Hill was also a member of the Hawke's Bay Hospital Board, the Hawke's Bay Electric Power Board, the Napier High School board of governors.


1917 Napier mayoral election, Background and candidates, Vigor Brown
Vigor Brown was a prominent figure in Napier in the opening decades of the twentieth century. His career stretched back to 1898 when he was elected to both the Napier Harbour Board and the Napier Borough Council. He was the incumbent mayor, having held office for a decade when he was first elected in 1907.


1917 Napier mayoral election, Results
Brown was the first to declare his intention to stand in the next mayoral election in 1919, with Hill then acceding to a requisition by ratepayers. Brown defeated Hill by a very small margin; the initial count had him three votes ahead, but in the final declaration, this increased to a sixteen vote victory (1818 votes versus 1802).


1917 Navy Midshipmen football team
The 1917 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1917 college football season. In their first season under head coach Gil Dobie, the Midshipmen compiled a 7–1 record, shut out four opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined score of 442 to 23.


1917 Navy Midshipmen football team
The annual Army–Navy Game was not played this season or the next due to World War I.


1917 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
The 1917 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1917 college football season. The team was coached by second-year head coach E. J. Stewart and played its home games at Nebraska Field in Lincoln, Nebraska. They competed as members of the Missouri Valley Conference, which NU won for the eighth consecutive season.


1917 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
Stewart departed the football program after the season to assist in the war effort as the United States drew closer to involvement in World War I, spending time at the YMCA preparing young men to serve in the armed forces. Stewart remained NU's basketball coach and athletic director until 1919.


1917 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster
Cook, John QBDay, William CDobson, Paul HBDuTeau, Al EHenry, Stanley CHubka, Ernest FBKellogg, Sam TKositsky, Ed TKriemelmeyer, Walter TMcMahon, Harold HBMunn, Wayne GOtopalik, Hugo HBRhodes, Roscoe ERiddell, Ted ESchellenberg, Elmer HBShaw, Edson TShaw, Lawrence TTeter, John GWhite, Herbert PLAYERWhite, Roland PLAYERWilder, Harold TYoung, Farley G


1917 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Nebraska Wesleyan
This was the fourth and final time Nebraska scored 100 or more points.


1917 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame
The Irish's longest drive ended with an interception at the Nebraska 8-yard line. Among the Notre Dame players present was future College Football Hall of Fame inductee George Gipp, who was handed his first career loss at Notre Dame.


1917 Nevada Sagebrushers football team
The 1917 Nevada Sagebrushers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Nevada as an independent during the 1917 college football season. The Sagebrushers were led by third-year head coach Jack Glascock and played their home games at Mackay Field.


1917 New Brunswick general election
The 1917 New Brunswick general election was held on 24 February 1917, to elect 48 members to the 34th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada. Although political parties had no standing in law, the twenty-one MLAs that formed the government declared themselves to be Conservatives, while the twenty-seven opposition MLAs declared themselves to be Liberals.


1917 New Brunswick general election
The incumbent Conservative government, under newly appointed leader James Alexander Murray, the third Conservative Premier since the previous election, was defeated after having been embroiled in several years of financial scandals.


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1917 New Hampshire football team
The 1917 New Hampshire football team was an American football team that represented New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts during the 1917 college football season—the school became the University of New Hampshire in 1923. In its third season under head coach William "Butch" Cowell, the team compiled a 3–2–2 record, while outscoring their opponents by a total of 129 to 53.


1917 New Hampshire football team
The team initially selected Joseph W. Morrill of Grafton, New Hampshire, as team captain. Due to his enlistment in the United States Navy before the start of the season, Charles B. Broderick, who had played high school football in nearby Exeter, New Hampshire, was selected as the new team captain.


1917 New Hampshire football team, Schedule
The game against USS Des Moines is listed as a 13–13 tie by College Football Data Warehouse and the Wildcats' media guide. Two contemporary sources, The New Hampshire college newspaper and The Granite college yearbook, recorded it as a 13–6 win for New Hampshire.


1917 New Hampshire football team, Schedule
Team captain Charlie Broderick became a high school football coach in Massachusetts, winning 252 games in a 42-year career.


1917 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team
The 1917 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts (now known as New Mexico State University) during the 1917 college football season. In their first and only year under head coach John G. Griffith, the Aggies compiled a 4–2 record and outscored all opponents by a total of 231 to 75.


1917 New Mexico A&M Aggies football team
The team's scoring average of 38.5 points per game remains a school record. In the annual rivalry game with New Mexico, the Aggies scored 110 points, which remains the school's single-game scoring record. Robert Foster scored seven touchdowns and 42 points in the game which also remain school records.


1917 New South Wales state election
The 1917 New South Wales state election was held on 24 March 1917. This election was for all of the 90 seats in the 24th New South Wales Legislative Assembly and it was conducted in single-member constituencies with a second ballot if a majority was not achieved on the first. The 23rd parliament of New South Wales was dissolved on 21 February 1917 by the Governor, Sir Gerald Strickland, on the advice of the Premier William Holman.


1917 New South Wales state election
Since the previous election, Premier Holman had left the Labor Party with 17 of his supporters and entered into a coalition with the opposition Liberal Party, as a result of the 1916 conscription dispute that split the Labor Party nationally. In early 1917, Holman's supporters merged with the Liberals to form the New South Wales branch of the Nationalist Party. Although the merged party was dominated by former Liberals, Holman became its leader, and thus remained premier.


1917 New South Wales state election
The Nationalists won a sweeping victory, scoring a 13-seat swing which was magnified by the large number of former Labor MPs who followed Holman out of the party. It thus presaged the federal Nationalists' equally comprehensive victory in the federal election two months later.


1917 New South Wales state election, Results
1917 New South Wales state election Legislative Assembly << 1913–1920 >>


1917 New Year Honours
The 1917 New Year Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were published in several editions of The London Gazette in January and February.


1917 New Year Honours
The 1 January list contained only military honours earned during the ongoing war, particularly for the Battle of the Somme, while political honours were delayed. The announcement was celebrated by The Times in its New Year's Day reporting:


1917 New Year Honours
"It is a welcome change to publish a list of New Year's Honours which have been earned altogether in the honourable service of the State. What are sometimes called 'political honours' – the results too often of personal and party manoeuvres – seem indescribably repellent in these days of national strain. We cannot, unfortunately, congratulate ourselves that their omission to-day is anything more than a postponement; but for the moment at all events we have a list confined entirely to sailors and soldiers and to civilians whose claim to distinction rests wholly on public service. We rejoice especially in the well-timed promptness with which the official report of the greatest battle in English history is followed by a large recognition of the men responsible for its success."


1917 New Year Honours
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.


1917 New Year Honours, United Kingdom and British Empire, Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
In recognition of bravery and devotion to duty during mine-sweeping operations —


1917 New Year Honours, United Kingdom and British Empire, Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
For valuable services rendered in connection with the War —


1917 New Year Honours, United Kingdom and British Empire, Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
In recognition of services in the Battle of Jutland —


1917 New Year Honours, United Kingdom and British Empire, Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
In recognition of their gallantry and devotion to duty in the Field —


1917 New Year Honours, United Kingdom and British Empire, Distinguished Service Cross (DSC)
In recognition of bravery and devotion to duty during mine-sweeping operations


1917 New Year Honours, United Kingdom and British Empire, Military Cross (MC)
In recognition of their gallantry and devotion to duty in the Field


1917 New Year Honours, United Kingdom and British Empire, Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM)
For acts of gallantry and devotion to duty in the Field —


1917 New Year Honours, United Kingdom and British Empire, Conspicuous Gallantry Medal (CGM)
In recognition of services in the Battle of Jutland —


1917 New York City mayoral election
The 1917 New York City mayoral election replaced sitting mayor John P. Mitchel, a reform Democrat running on the Fusion Party ticket, with John F. Hylan, the regular Democrat supported by Tammany Hall and William Randolph Hearst.


1917 New York City mayoral election
The election was notable not only for the first partisan primary elections for City offices, but for the contentious debate over supporting U.S. entry into World War One, vigorously supported by Mitchel and opposed by the Socialist candidate, Morris Hillquit. Mitchel and Hillquit each won about a fifth of the total vote, while Hylan won office with less than half the vote.


1917 New York City mayoral election, The Campaign
The Fall 1917 election, which The New York Times called a "puzzle without parallel", would have been exciting even had it occurred in peacetime. In September, the  City held its first-ever primary elections for mayor. Incumbent Fusion Mayor John Purroy Mitchel (an insurgent Democrat) who had enjoyed Republican non-opposition in 1913, apparently won the Republican primary until a series of counting mistakes and frauds (followed by criminal indictments) forced recounts that gave a narrow victory to William M. Bennett. Attempts to find a compromise anti-Tammany candidate failed, Bennett declined to withdraw from the race, and Mitchel went on to wage an independent campaign for re-election.


1917 New York City mayoral election, The Campaign
But the mayoral election happened in the same year as the United States' entry into World War One on April 6. An emergency national convention and referendum of the Socialist Party of America overwhelmingly approved a resolution, co-authored by Morris Hillquit (the Party's candidate for Mayor of New York), which proclaimed,


1917 New York City mayoral election, The Campaign
The Socialist Party of the United States in the present grave crisis solemnly reaffirms its allegiance to the principle of internationalism and working-class solidarity the world over, and proclaims its unalterable opposition to the war just declared by the Government of the United States.


1917 New York City mayoral election, The Campaign
Hillquit's refusal to support the war by such acts as buying Liberty Bonds won the Socialists new support in many immigrant communities, but vitriolic denunciations from many quarters, including The New York Times, Mayor Mitchel, who hinted at Hillquit's foreign birth by saying that "any man who will not buy a Liberty bond when he can afford them is not fit to be a citizen of the United States", and ex-President Theodore Roosevelt (the Republicans' 1886 candidate for mayor), who declared that Hillquit "stands as an aid to the Prussianized autocracy of the Hohenzollerns."


1917 New York City mayoral election, The Campaign
The Fusion campaign decided to direct its last week against Hillquit (who would eclipse Mitchel in The Bronx while matching his vote in Queens and Brooklyn), rather than against Judge John F. Hylan, the candidate of Tammany Hall and William Randolph Hearst. (Hearst, the newspaper publisher who was the 1905 Mayoral candidate of the Municipal Ownership League, and Hylan, who had started life operating subway trains, were both strong opponents of the city's private transit companies.)


1917 New York City mayoral election, The Campaign
Hylan's position on the war was unclear, but not his sharp victory over all three of his major rivals on November 6 (exactly seven months after the U.S. Declaration of War and one day before the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia). Although a divided opposition let Hylan carry the City and three of her boroughs with less than 50% of the total vote, the numbers (as in 1897) suggest that Tammany Hall might very easily have won a two-candidate race.


1917 New York City mayoral election, The Campaign
The New York City Socialists won the highest percentage of the Mayoral vote they would ever receive, while electing ten State Assemblymen, seven city Aldermen, and a municipal court judge.


1917 New York City mayoral election, The Campaign
Running for president of the board of aldermen (the position from which acting mayors succeeded when elected mayors could not serve) on the same Democratic ticket as Hylan was Al Smith, then Sheriff of New York County (Manhattan), and previously Democratic Leader and Speaker of the New York State Assembly. (Smith had hoped to run for mayor himself, but Tammany Hall leader Charles F. Murphy chose Hylan instead, partly out of deference to Hearst and to John McCooey, the Democratic leader in Brooklyn.) Smith easily defeated the New York City Fire Commissioner, Robert Adamson, who was running for Board President on the Fusion ticket with Mitchel.


1917 New York City mayoral election, General election results
Mayor Mitchel ran second to Judge Hylan in every borough but the Bronx, where Hillquit pushed Mitchel into third place. (Hillquit came within 200 votes of doing the same in Queens.) Bennett (the Republican), who came in fourth everywhere else, came third  and pushed Hillquit into fourth place (and below 10%) on Staten Island. Hylan (who led everywhere) won pluralities, rather than absolute majorities, in the City as a whole and in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn, winning a slim overall majority in Queens and a decisive (4–3) majority on Staten Island.


1917 New York City mayoral election, General election results
[Others and Total from The Encyclopedia of New York City (Yale, 1995), which does not exactly match the other numbers, taken from The World Almanac  for 1929 & 1943.]


1917 New York Giants season
The 1917 New York Giants season was the franchise's 35th season. It involved the Giants winning the National League pennant for the first time in four years. The team went on to lose to the Chicago White Sox in the 1917 World Series, four games to two.


1917 New York Giants season, Regular season
New York had no real superstars, but they had a very balanced roster and led the league in both runs scored and fewest runs allowed.


1917 New York Giants season, Regular season
Third baseman Heinie Zimmerman had a fine offensive season, pacing the circuit in runs batted in, but suffered through an embarrassment in the World Series. A third baseman, Zimmerman had the unfortunate task of chasing White Sox star Eddie Collins across home plate when there was no one to throw to. The Giants lost in six games.


1917 New York Giants season, Regular season
Between July 31 and August 10, the Giants hit at least one triple in each of 11 consecutive games, the longest such streak in franchise history (considering records from 1914 onwards).


1917 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1917 New York Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1917 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1917 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1917 New York Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1917 New York Giants season, 1917 World Series, Game 3
October 10, 1917, at the Polo Grounds in New York City


1917 New York Giants season, 1917 World Series, Game 4
October 11, 1917, at the Polo Grounds in New York City


1917 New York Giants season, 1917 World Series, Game 6
October 15, 1917, at the Polo Grounds in New York City


1917 New York Yankees season
The 1917 New York Yankees season was the 15th season for the Yankees in New York, and the 17th season overall for the franchise. The team finished with a record of 71–82, finishing 28½ games behind the American League champion Chicago White Sox. New York was managed by Bill Donovan. Their home games were played at the Polo Grounds.


1917 New York Yankees season, Opening game
The opening game was against the Boston Red Sox on April 11, 1917, at the Polo Grounds in New York. 16,000 fans were in attendance. The Yankees lost 10-3. Major General Leonard Wood attended the game and threw out the first ball. Wood had drill sergeant Gibson, the recruiting officer from Macon, Georgia, where the team had their spring training, march the Yankees across the field in formation carrying rifles.


1917 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1917 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1917 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1917 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1917 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1917 New York state election
The 1917 New York state election was held on November 6, 1917, to elect the Attorney General and two judges of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly.


1917 New York state election, History
In 1917, there were only three officers to be elected statewide:


1917 New York state election, History
The primaries were held on September 19. All nominees were unopposed.


1917 New York state election, Result
The incumbents Lewis, Cardozo and McLaughlin were elected to succeed themselves.


1917 New York state election, Sources
Court of Appeals totals from New York Red Book 1918


1917 New Zealand rugby league season
The 1917 New Zealand rugby league season was the tenth season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.


1917 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Northern Union Cup
Auckland again held the Northern Union Cup at the end of the season.


1917 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
Ponsonby United won the Auckland Rugby League's competition and the Roope Rooster.


1917 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland
The Auckland Rugby Union champions, Railway (themselves a War time combination of the Marist and City clubs), split with a breakaway group led by Conrad McDevitt challenging Ponsonby United to a game of rugby league. Railway XIII, who included most of the club's leading players, defeated Ponsonby United 12-3 at the Auckland Domain. They then lost to the City Rovers 6-18. Railway XIII included Ces Dacre, who later represented New Zealand at cricket. In 1918 the club merged with Grafton Athletic. McDevitt was later involved in the formation of the Marist club in 1919.


1917 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury
Sydenham won the Canterbury Rugby League's competition, for which they were awarded the Thacker Shield.


1917 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury
Federal, Hornby, Linwood and Sydenham were the only senior teams.


1917 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury
During the year former Canterbury captain and New Zealand international Bill Bussell was killed in action.


1917 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions
The Wellington Rugby League's competition was suspended from 1916 until 1918.


1917 Newcastle state by-election
The Newcastle state by-election, 1917 was a by-election held on 12 May 1917 for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Newcastle.


1917 Newcastle state by-election
The by-election was triggered by the resignation of first-term Labor MP Thomas Butterfield on 21 March to contest a seat in the Australian Senate at the 1917 federal election. There were only two candidates Port Augusta labourer William Harvey for the Labor Party, and Quorn farmer and grazier Edward Twopeny for the Liberal Union. Twopeny, who had unsuccessfully contested the seat twice previously, won the seat.


1917 Newcastle state by-election
The largest booths were at Quorn (580 votes), Port Augusta (572 votes), Wilmington (177 votes) and Hawker (175 votes). There were also booths at Beltana, Belton, Blinman, Boolcunda East, Bruce, Carrieton, Cockburn, Cordillo Downs, Cradock, Ediowie, Eurelia, Farina, Gordon, Hammond, Hookina, Johnburg, Leigh Creek, Limestone Well, Lyndhurst Siding, Marree, Mount Lyndhurst, Mungeranie, Murnpeowie, Olary, Oodnadatta, Parachilna, Port Augusta West, Saltia, Stirling North, Warcowie, Waukaringa, William Creek, Willipa, Wilson, Wooltana, Wyacca and Yanyarrie.


1917 Newcastle state by-election
The election saw a drastic drop in turnout, which was down more than 25% from the 1915 state election. This was attributed by both candidates to major problems with the electoral roll. Twopeny criticised the "disgraceful state of the electoral roll", stating that the rolls "could not be in a worse condition" and expressing concern about voters being disenfranchised for being "too late" to be counted, while others who were present on the roll were dead or had left the state. He hoped there would soon be "clean rolls".


1917 Newcastle state by-election
Harvey stated that "had the rolls been in good order Labor would have won" and claimed that 200 Labor voters in Port Augusta had been refused a vote, but stated he was "pleased with the way Mr Twopeny had run the campaign". The Register in Adelaide reported that there had been "great indignation" about the state of the rolls, with voters who "had their cards and transfer notices" not being on the certified roll. The newspaper also noted that the time at which the polls closed and the location of the polling booth in Port Augusta differed from that at the Commonwealth elections one week prior.


1917 Newcastle state by-election
Butterworth lost the Senate race at the federal election, reclaimed his Newcastle seat at the 1918 state election and would go on to be a senior minister in state Labor governments during the 1920s.


1917 Newport Naval Reserves football team
The 1917 Newport Naval Reserves football team was an American football team that represented the United States Navy's Second District Naval Reserve stationed at the Newport Naval Reserve Training Station in Newport, Rhode Island, during the 1917 fall football season.


1917 Newport Naval Reserves football team
The team had more players named to the 1917 All-Service football team than any other service team. Newport's honorees were: center John T. Callahan (Walter Camp, 1st team); guard Clinton Black (Camp, 1st team); guard Chris Schlachter (New York Times and Paul Purman, 1st teams); halfback Charley Barrett (NYT and Purman, 1st teams, Camp 2nd team); halfback Bernard Gerrish (Purman, 1st team); end George B. L. Green (NYT, 1st team).


1917 North Armagh by-election
The North Armagh by-election of 1917 was held on 22 November 1917. The by-election was held due to the incumbent Conservative MP, Sir William Moore, becoming a Judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland. It was won by the Conservative candidate William Allen, who was unopposed.


1917 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team
The 1917 North Carolina A&M Aggies football team represented the North Carolina A&M Aggies of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts during the 1917 college football season. In Harry Hartsell's first season (and first stint, as he would leave and then return for the 1921–1923 seasons), the coach managed to garner a winning record for the Aggies for the first time since the 1913 SAIAA champion team, and tied the record for most wins in a season at 6 (other 6-win seasons as of 1917 were 1907–09, and 1913).


1917 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team
The 1917 North Dakota Agricultural Aggies football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) as an independent during the 1917 college football season. In their third year under head coach Paul J. Davis, the team compiled a 4–2 record.


1917 North Roscommon by-election
The North Roscommon by-election of 1917 was held on 3 February 1917. The by-election was held due to the death of the incumbent Irish Parliamentary MP, James Joseph O'Kelly. The election took place nine months after the 1916 Rising. The election was contested by Thomas Devine, standing for the Irish Parliamentary Party, who was expected to win comfortably, and Jasper Tully, a local newspaper owner who was running as an independent.


1917 North Roscommon by-election
An outsider candidate was proposed as an Independent candidate: Count George Noble Plunkett; the father of Joseph Plunkett, who had been executed for his role in the Easter Rising. Count Plunkett was proposed by John J. O'Kelly (Sceilg), P. T. Keohane and Fr. Michael O'Flanagan, the curate of Crossna in North Roscommon. Fr. O'Flanagan was main organiser of the election, assisted by Larry Ginnell, and many others who came down from Dublin to take on the Irish Parliamentary Party.


1917 North Roscommon by-election
Though often credited as Sinn Féin's first victory in a Parliamentary election, Plunkett was not a member of Sinn Féin.


1917 Northwestern Purple football team
The 1917 Northwestern Purple team represented Northwestern University during the 1917 college football season. In their fourth year under head coach Fred J. Murphy, the Purple compiled a 5–2 record (3–2 against Big Ten Conference opponents) and finished in a tie for third place in the Big Ten Conference.


1917 Norwegian Football Cup
The 1917 Norwegian Football Cup was the 16th season of the Norwegian annual knockout football tournament. For the first time, the tournament was open for all members of NFF. Sarpsborg won their first title, having beaten Brann in the final. This was the first final that was played on grass.


1917 Norwich by-election
The Norwich by-election of 1917 was held on 26 August 1917. The by-election was held due to the incumbent Labour MP, George Roberts, becoming Minister of Labour.


1917 Norwich by-election
The Norwich Labour Party and Trades Council repudiated Roberts because he accepted office in the Coalition Government. However, the National Executive of the Labour Party endorsed him, so he stood as an official Labour Party candidate. Due to the wartime electoral truce between the main parties, Roberts was returned unopposed.


1917 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team
The 1917 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1917 college football season, led by fifth-year head coach Jesse Harper. The Irish won six of their eight games, with a loss at Nebraska, and a tie at Wisconsin.


1917 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team
This was the final season for Harper, who stepped away from coaching and returned to his native Kansas to ranch. Fourth-year assistant (and former Irish player) Knute Rockne was promoted to head coach for the 1918 season.


1917 Nueva Gerona hurricane
The 1917 Nueva Gerona hurricane was the most intense tropical cyclone to strike the Florida Panhandle until Hurricane Opal in 1995. The eighth tropical cyclone and fourth tropical storm of the season, this system was identified as a tropical storm east of the Lesser Antilles on September 20. After crossing the Lesser Antilles, the system entered the Caribbean Sea and achieved hurricane intensity on September 21. After becoming a Category 2 hurricane, the storm struck the northern coast of Jamaica on September 23.


1917 Nueva Gerona hurricane
Early on September 25, the cyclone reached Category 4 status and attained maximum sustained winds of 150 mph (240 km/h) soon thereafter. Later that day, the hurricane made landfall in eastern Pinar del Río Province, Cuba. The system entered the Gulf of Mexico shortly thereafter and weakened slightly. Recurving to the northeast, the hurricane briefly threatened Louisiana before turning toward Florida. Early on September 29, the hurricane made landfall near Fort Walton Beach, Florida, with winds of 115 mph (185 km/h). Once over land, the cyclone rapidly weakened and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone before dissipating on September 30.


1917 Nueva Gerona hurricane
Some islands in the Lesser Antilles experienced strong winds and heavy rainfall, including Dominica, Guadeloupe, and Saint Lucia. In Jamaica, the hurricane caused significant damage to banana and coconut plantations. Communications from Holland Bay were disrupted when the station was demolished. The greatest damages were reported from the northern half of the island. Nine deaths occurred in the city of Port Antonio. In Nueva Gerona, Cuba, strong winds destroyed well-constructed buildings and all but 10 homes. The Isla de la Juventud overall experienced about $2 million (1917 USD) in damage and there were at least 20 fatalities.


1917 Nueva Gerona hurricane
Orchards and crops were destroyed on the Pinar del Río Province. In Louisiana and Mississippi, impact was generally limited to damaged crops and timber stands. Ten deaths from drowning were reported in Louisiana. Farther east in Mobile, Alabama, portions of roofs, trees, and other debris littered streets. Communications were severed in Pensacola, Florida. Several small watercraft washed ashore, and numerous wharves, docks, and boat storages suffered impact. Total damages were estimated near $170,000 in Pensacola area. Five deaths were reported in Florida, all of them in Crestview. The storm and its remnants also produced rainfall in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.


1917 Nueva Gerona hurricane, Meteorological history
An open trough of low pressure, possibly a tropical wave, developed into a tropical storm about 160 miles (260 km) east-northeast of Barbados at 00:00 UTC on September 20. Steadily intensifying, the storm moved west-northwestward and crossed the Lesser Antilles between the islands of Saint Lucia and Martinique several hours later. Upon entering the Caribbean Sea on September 21, the system intensified quicker, becoming a Category 1 hurricane on the modern-day Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale later that day. While passing south of the Tiburon Peninsula on the following day, the storm strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane.


1917 Nueva Gerona hurricane, Meteorological history
Later on September 23, the hurricane struck the northern coast of Jamaica, before re-emerging into the Caribbean Sea. Around 06:00 UTC on September 24, it intensified into a Category 3 hurricane while moving northwestward. Around that time, it struck Cayman Brac. Early on September 25, the storm achieved Category 4 status.


1917 Nueva Gerona hurricane, Meteorological history
At 12:00 UTC on September 25, the hurricane attained its minimum barometric pressure of 928 mbar (27.4 inHg), an estimate made by Ramón Perez of the Instituto de Meteorología de la República de Cuba. Using a pressure-wind relationship, researchers at the National Hurricane Center estimated peak maximum sustained winds at 150 mph (240 km/h). Shortly after peak intensity, the cyclone brushed Isla de la Juventud. By 18:00 UTC on September 25, the hurricane made landfall at the same intensity in the eastern part of Pinar del Río Province in Cuba.


1917 Nueva Gerona hurricane, Meteorological history
The system entered the Gulf of Mexico later on September 25. The storm fell to Category 3 intensity early on September 27. It briefly tracked generally northward and approached southeastern Louisiana before re-curving northeastward late the next day. At 02:00 UTC on September 29, the hurricane made landfall near Fort Walton Beach, Florida, with winds of 115 mph (185 km/h). Once over land, the system rapidly weakened to a tropical storm within 12 hours. Early on September 30, it transitioned into an extratropical cyclone over Georgia after merging with a frontal system. About six hours later, the remnants of the hurricane dissipated.


1917 Nueva Gerona hurricane, Meteorological history
The minimum atmospheric pressure of 928 mbar (27.42 inHg) established the cyclone as the third most intense landfalling Cuban hurricane. Deeper pressures of 921 mbar (27.23 inHg) and 915 mbar (27.02 inHg) were measured in the 1924 and 1932 hurricanes, respectively. The cyclone (949 mbar; 28.02 inHg) was also the most intense tropical cyclone in the Florida Panhandle until Hurricane Opal (942 mbar; 27.82 inHg). At the time, it was tied with an 1882 storm, which also had a central pressure of 949 mbar (28.02 inHg) at landfall in northwest Florida.


1917 Nueva Gerona hurricane, Preparations and impact, Caribbean
On September 21, the United States Weather Bureau issued advisories because of strong swells in the Leeward Islands, indicating the presence of a tropical disturbance.


1917 Nueva Gerona hurricane, Preparations and impact, Caribbean
The system produced heavy precipitation and strong winds in the eastern Caribbean islands. In Jamaica, the hurricane caused significant damages to banana and coconut plantations. Communications from Holland Bay were disrupted when the station was demolished. The greatest damages were reported from the northern half of the island. At Port Antonio, the custom house was destroyed, while a hotel was severely damaged. Nine deaths occurred in the city. In Nueva Gerona, Cuba, severe winds destroyed well constructed buildings, devastating the town. Only ten homes remained standing. At a large plantation, every building but the house was destroyed.


1917 Nueva Gerona hurricane, Preparations and impact, Caribbean
Nearly all of the chickens on the property were killed during the storm. Throughout Isla de la Juventud, damage reached approximately $2 million. The island's food supply was also ruined. Offshore, a number of ships capsized or went missing, resulting in "many" deaths. There were at least 20 fatalities on the island, while other accounts state that there were hundreds killed. Orchards and crops were destroyed on the Pinar del Río Province. A relief committed issued an appeal for aid to then-Cuban president Mario García Menocal and Americans. At the Burnside Hotel, among few buildings were demolished, a soup kitchen was opened to feed storm victims.


1917 Nueva Gerona hurricane, Preparations and impact, United States
On September 23, northeast storm warnings were issued for the Florida coast from West Palm Beach to Boca Grande. On September 25, the Weather Bureau advised marine traffic to remain alert in the Gulf of Mexico, noting that the intensity of the storm was unknown. Later, hurricane warnings were issued from Apalachicola, Florida, to Mobile, Alabama, on September 25. Warnings were also released from Pascagoula, Mississippi, to New Orleans, Louisiana, on September 26. The warnings were briefly discontinued because of track uncertainties, but they were re-issued when the cyclone began to curve northeast. On September 27 and September 28, scheduled vessel trips were cancelled in New Orleans, Louisiana. Marine traffic resumed after the storm passed east of the city. The storm struck the Gulf Coast later than anticipated because of slow forward motion.


1917 Nueva Gerona hurricane, Preparations and impact, United States
In Louisiana, rain bands produced 6.40 in (160 mm) of rain in Burrwood. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad sent trains on alternate routes because of eroded tracks near Lake Catherine. The effects of the cyclone also damaged crops and timber stands in Louisiana and Mississippi. The storm surge associated with the hurricane moved several structures from their foundations in Buras, Louisiana. There, the storm was blamed for the death of an 8-year-old boy. Nine additional fatalities occurred near Houma after the fishing bark Wanna was wrecked. In Biloxi, warnings prevented considerable loss of shrimp boats. Street cars and other traffic were practically suspended in Gulfport.


1917 Nueva Gerona hurricane, Preparations and impact, United States
In Alabama, more than 5 in (125 mm) of rain was measured in Montgomery, prompting flood advisories for the lower Alabama River watershed. At Camp Sheridan, a United States Army World War I training camp, the streets were inundated with at least a few inches of water. In Mobile, trees and telephone and telegraph wires were downed, cutting off communications. Roofs were detached and the galleries of houses were torn away. Police stopped the streets cars were operating and shut off the electricity. No boats from the area were lost, and waterfront damage was negligible.


1917 Nueva Gerona hurricane, Preparations and impact, United States
The hurricane severed communication from Pensacola, Florida, though reports eventually indicated that the wireless radio plant was not destroyed. Several small watercraft washed ashore, including the USS Quincy, and numerous wharves, docks, and boat storages received damage. Total damages reached about $170,000 in the vicinity of Pensacola. Near the city, a portion of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was 8 ft (2.4 m) underwater, while several of their bridges washed away. At Valparaiso, tides reached 7.5 ft (2.3 m) above normal. Significant destruction of timber occurred in Okaloosa and Santa Rosa counties, and crops, structures, and livestock were affected. Strong winds occurred along the southwest coast of Florida, and a wind gust of 44 mph (70 km/h) was reported in Jacksonville. A total of five people were killed in Crestview.


1917 Nueva Gerona hurricane, Preparations and impact, United States
The storm and its remnants also produced rainfall in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.


1917 Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels football team
The 1917 Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels football team represented Oglethorpe University in the sport of American football during the 1917 college football season. In October 1917, Coach Frank B. Anderson held a meeting at Oglethorpe concerning the possibility of football team. Approximately 70 boys were enrolled at the newly re-founded Oglethorpe—20 of which were ready to begin Oglethorpe's inaugural season.


1917 Ohio State Buckeyes football team
The 1917 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented Ohio State University in the 1917 college football season. The Buckeyes compiled an 8–0–1 record and became Big Ten Conference champion for the second straight year with a 4–0 record in conference play. Ohio State outscored opponents 292–6.


1917 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team
The 1917 Oklahoma A&M Aggies football team represented Oklahoma A&M College in the 1917 college football season. This was the 17th year of football at A&M and the first under Earl A. Pritchard. The Aggies played their home games at Lewis Field in Stillwater, Oklahoma. They finished the season 4–5 and 1–2 in the Southwest Conference.


1917 Oklahoma Sooners football team
The 1917 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1917 college football season. In their 13th year under head coach Bennie Owen, the Sooners compiled a 6–4–1 record (1–1–1 against conference opponents), and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 451 to 103.


1917 Oklahoma Sooners football team
Two Sooner received All-Southwest Conference honors: Walt Abbott and W.E. Durant.


1917 Ole Miss Rebels football team
The 1917 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1917 college football season. The season was the first under head coach Dudy Noble. The season closed with the team's only victory, over Mississippi College.


1917 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team
The 1917 Oregon Agricultural Aggies football team represented Oregon Agricultural College (now known as Oregon State University) in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1917 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach Joseph Pipal, the Aggies compiled a 4–2–1 record (1–2–1 against PCC opponents), finished in third place in the PCC, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 83 to 33. The team played its home games at Bell Field in Corvallis, Oregon. Lee Bissett was the team captain.


1917 Oregon Webfoots football team
The 1917 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1917 college football season. In their sixth and final season under head coach Hugo Bezdek, the Webfoots compiled a 4–3 record (1–2 against PCC opponents), finished in fourth place in the PCC, and were outscored by their opponents, 74 to 73. The team played its home games at Kincaid Field in Eugene, Oregon.


1917 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo)
1917 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo) was the 11th water polo championship in Hungary. There were two teams who played one match for the title.


1917 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo), Final list
* M: Matches W: Win D: Drawn L: Lost G+: Goals earned G-: Goals got P: Point


1917 Oxford by-election
The Oxford by-election of 1917 was held on 30 March 1917. The by-election was held due to the elevation to a UK peerage of the incumbent Conservative MP, Lord Valentia, who became Baron Annesley of Bletchington. It was won by the Conservative candidate John Marriott who was unopposed due to a War-time electoral pact.


1917 Paraguayan Primera División season
The 1917 season of the Paraguayan Primera División, the top category of Paraguayan football, was played by 8 teams. The national champions were Libertad.


1917 Paris–Tours
The 1917 Paris–Tours was the 12th edition of the Paris–Tours cycle race and was held on 6 May 1917. The race started in Paris and finished in Tours. The race was won by Philippe Thys.


1917 Penn Quakers football team
The 1917 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1917 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 9–2 record in their second year under head coach Bob Folwell. Significant games included victories over Michigan (16–0), Carlisle (26–0), and Cornell (37–0), and losses to undefeated national champion Georgia Tech (41–0) and Pittsburgh (14–6). The 1917 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 245 to 71.


1917 Penn Quakers football team
Five Penn players received honors on the 1917 College Football All-America Team. They are: end Heinie Miller (Jack Veiock and Dick Jemison 1st teams, Walter Eckersall, 2nd team); Joseph Strauss (Jemison 1st team); guard Herbert Dieter (Paul Purman 2nd team); center Lud Wray (New York Times All-Service team, Purman 2nd team); and fullback Joseph Howard Berry, Jr. (Eckersall and Purman 1st teams, Veiock 2nd team).


1917 Penn State Nittany Lions football team
The 1917 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State College in the 1917 college football season. The team was led by third-year head coach Dick Harlow and played its home games at New Beaver Field in State College, Pennsylvania.


1917 Penn State Nittany Lions men's soccer team
The 1917 Penn State Nittany Lions men's soccer team represented Pennsylvania State University during 1917. It was the program's 7th season fielding a men's varsity soccer team. The 1917 season was Jim Crowell's second year at the helm.


1917 Penn State Nittany Lions men's soccer team, Background
The 1917 season was the Nittany Lions' 7th season as a varsity soccer program. The Penn State soccer program and was coached by Jim Crowell. This was Jim Crowell's second season as head coach of the Nittany Lions.


1917 Penn State Nittany Lions men's soccer team, Background
The Nittany Lion's abandoned their fall season after one match was played due to the United States entering World War I.


1917 Penn State Nittany Lions men's soccer team, Squad, Roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


1917 Philadelphia Athletics season
The 1917 Philadelphia Athletics season involved the A's finishing eighth in the American League with a record of 55 wins and 98 losses.


1917 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1917 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1917 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1917 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1917 Philadelphia Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1917 Philadelphia Phillies season
The following lists the events of the 1917 Philadelphia Phillies season.


1917 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1917 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1917 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1917 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1917 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team
The 1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 1917 college football season. Led by coach Pop Warner, the Panthers won all ten games and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 260–31.


1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team
The Panthers were nicknamed "The Fighting Dentists" because during some rotations all eleven players on the field would be dentistry students. One of those players was Pitt Panthers legend Jock Sutherland.


1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason
The 1916 football championship was given to the unbeaten Pitt Panthers by the Eastern critics. Edward Bushnell noted: "Under the present system of haphazard schedule making in the east, the awarding of the football championship is largely a matter of opinion. It is quite impossible to dodge the conclusion that Pittsburgh deserved the honor."


1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason
The Pitt Weekly reported: "The 1916 football season was not only a remarkable one in point of games won, but was also attended with great financial success, according to the Graduate Manager of Athletics. With all accounts paid, at the end of the football season, the assets over liabilities amounted to $17,124.00. This will more than take care of the development of non-profit producing sports, such as baseball, basketball, track, tennis, swimming and wrestling, and the Athletic Council will go into the 1917 football season with a nice balance. Owing to the adoption of the One-Year Residence Rule and the fact that Freshman teams will be equipped and provided with coaches in all branches of athletics in future, these expenses will be materially increased."


1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason
At the postseason banquet, H. Clifford Carlson was elected Captain and T. Lee Trimble, class of 1919, a student in the School of Mines, was chosen Student Manager of the football team for the 1917 season.


1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason
Only four starters (Bob Peck, Claude Thornhill, James Herron and Randall Soppitt) and three substitutes (Sam Friedlander, O.C. Ammons and Harry Stahlman) were lost to graduation. With 15 returning lettermen and Coach Warner at the helm, the alumni, fans and students expected another good season. Then on April 6, 1917 The Pittsburgh Post headline read: "Congress has declared that the United States is at war with the Imperial German government."


1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason
In mid-May The Pittsburgh Post noted: "In the list of men who have signed up for the hospital corps of the university appear the names of Hastings, DeHart, Sies, McLaren, Seidel, Morrow and several other of the well-known athletes on the Pitt teams. These men are expecting to be called out at any time, and if they go it will leave a big gap in the ranks of the candidates for the grid team next fall."


1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason
The May 30, 1917 The Pittsburgh Post reported that: "Football will be played by the leading colleges of the country next fall." Where hysteria and chaos reigned in athletic circles at the outbreak of the war between the United States and Germany, Pitt Graduate Athletic Manager Karl E. Davis said all was calm now and nearly every institution represented at the Graduate Athletic Managers' Association meeting expressed itself heartily in favor of playing football.


1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason
On September 9, 1917 The Gazette Times noted: "The University of Pittsburgh football squad headed by Coach Glenn S. Warner and Captain Cliff Carlson, will leave tomorrow for Camp Hamilton, Windber, and the following day the first practice of the 1917 season will be held in the mountain retreat. The season promises to be an unusual one in many ways. Andy Hastings, Jimmy DeHart and Jim Morrow are now encamped at Allentown, PA, with the Pitt Base Hospital Unit.


1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason
Of the great backfield quartet, only George McLaren remains, he escaping the draft on account of being under 21 years of age. Of the 33 men who formed the 1916 varsity squad only 11 men will be available." The Pittsburgh Post added: "The party going to camp today will number about 40 men, including the coach, camp physician, Manager Trimble and his two assistants, Frank Finley and Tom Ware, the student camp helpers and players. About 30 players will be in the party, they being the eligibles from last year's varsity and freshman teams under the one-year residence rule."


1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason
The 1919 Owl Yearbook noted: "There was an uncertainty as to just how the game would be affected by the war. Several of the candidates who went to camp had enlisted and were expecting a call any time; and others had low numbers in the draft and were subject to call." On September 26, three days prior to the opening game with West Virginia, Gus Aschman, the projected starting quarterback was summoned to the Navy.


1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason
The Pitt Weekly summarized: "The University is going ahead with football this Fall although the clause "as usual" can hardly be added. The athletic authorities feel that football is needed at this time to help weld the students and alumni close to the University, to help train the boys physically for future war activities, to provide wholesome amusement for the undergraduates who are not in the service, and to help provide the proper "mental attitude" on the part of the public in general, which sports help bring about. Football, baseball, basketball and other forms of healthful amusement must go on.


1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason
This is the position taken by President Woodrow Wilson and the Secretaries of the Navy and Army. It is a source of gratification to the athletic authorities of the University that their policy as regards the continuation of athletics has been adopted by the intercollegiate athletic world as a whole. The Council is really taking a great chance from a financial standpoint in having a football team this year. They ask for the undivided support of the "grads" to make it a success. The one year residence rule will be in effect. There will be no training table. These moves are made in strict accordance with recommendations of the Intercollegiate Association"


1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Preseason
On Friday September 28, "the University of Pittsburgh football squad broke camp and entrained for Morgantown, where they will conduct a raid on the formidable West Virginia aggregation."


1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia
The defending champion Pitt eleven opened the 1917 season on the road at Morgantown, West Virginia against the West Virginia Mountaineers. The Mountaineers were led by second year coach Mont McIntire, who led them to a 5—2—2 record in 1916.


1917 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, at West Virginia
Richard Guy of The Pittsburgh Gazette Times reported: "Pittsburgh and West Virginia Universities resumed football relations this afternoon after a severance of several years, and the final result of the encounter, which marked the opening of the season for both teams, was in favor of Glenn Warner's pupils, 14 to 9."