1929 Colgate football team

{{short description|American college football season}}

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{{Infobox college sports team season

| year = 1929

| team = Colgate

| sport = football

| image =

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| conference = Independent

| record = 8–1

| head_coach = Andrew Kerr

| hc_year = 1st

| captain = John Cox

| stadium = Whitnall Field

}}

{{1929 Eastern college football independents records}}

The 1929 Colgate football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1929 college football season. In its first season under head coach Andrew Kerr, the team compiled an 8–1 record, shut out seven of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 315 to 19. The team played a national schedule, including victories over Michigan State (31-0), Indiana (21-6), Columbia (33-0), and Syracuse (21-0), and suffered its only loss on the road at Wisconsin (6-13).{{cite news|title=1929 Colgate Raiders Schedule and Results|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=SR/College Football|access-date=June 6, 2020|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/colgate/1929-schedule.html}}

Kerr was hired as Colgate's head coach in April 1929, after three seasons as head coach at Washington & Jefferson.{{cite news|title=Kerr Begins New Colgate Duties|newspaper=The Post-Star|date=April 26, 1929|page=9|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-post-star-kerr-begins-new-colgate-du/166412084/|via=Newspapers.com}} He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951.{{cite web|title=Andy Kerr|publisher=National Football Foundation|accessdate=February 22, 2025|url=https://footballfoundation.org/hof_search.aspx?hof=1529}}

Three Colgate players received significant postseason awards:

• Guard Bob Gillson was selected by the New York Post as a second-team player on the 1929 All-America team.{{cite news|title=New York Post Names All American Eleven|newspaper=The North Adams Transcript|date=December 2, 1929|page=10|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-north-adams-transcript-ny-post-all-a/166408504/|via=Newspapers.com}} He also received second-team honors from the Associated Press (AP) on the 1929 All-Eastern football team.{{cite news|title=All-Eastern 1929|newspaper=Rochester Democrat and Chronicle|date=December 4, 1929|page=25|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106020951/ap-all-eastern-1929/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• Tackle Bud Huntington received second-team All-America honors from the New York Sun.{{cite news|title=New York Sun Picks Glassgow As Outstanding Back of Year: Huntington, Tackle, Given Place On Newspaper's All-American Second Team|newspaper=Daily Sentinel (Rome, NY)|date=November 30, 1929|page=8|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-sentinel-new-york-sun-all-america/166409294/|via=Newspapers.com}}
• Halfback Leslie Hart received second-team All-Eastern honors from the AP.
• Center John Cox received second-team All-Eastern honors from the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA).{{cite news|title=Three Pittsburgh Players Named on the NEA All-Eastern Club; Booth, Masters, Cagel and Uansa in the Backfield|newspaper=Mount Carmel Item|date=December 5, 1929|page=4|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106022819/three-pittsburgh-players-named-on-the/|via=Newspapers.com}} Cox was also the team captain.{{cite web|title=2008 Colgate Football Media Guide|publisher=Colgate University|page=127|year=2008|access-date=June 6, 2020|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/gocolgateraiders.com/documents/2008/8/1/HISTORY.pdf}}{{cite news|title=John Cox Captain of Colgate Eleven|newspaper=The Post-Star|date=December 1, 1928|page=9|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-post-star-john-cox-captain-of-colgat/166409621/|via=Newspapers.com}}

The team played its home games on Whitnall Field in Hamilton, New York.