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                                                                  STRENGTH OF
                                     AVERAGE   OVERALL     CONF     SCHEDULE 
RANK TEAM                       CONF   SCORE    W- L-T   W- L-T     AVG  RANK

   1 Pennsylvania                IND   95.90   15- 0-0   0- 0-0   43.40    14
   2 Princeton                   IND   95.73   10- 1-0   0- 0-0   47.24     8
   3 Army                        IND   86.07    6- 1-1   0- 0-0   45.48    11
   4 Harvard                     IND   85.56   10- 1-1   0- 0-0   46.45    10
   5 Yale                        IND   83.97    9- 0-2   0- 0-0   47.13     9
   6 Lafayette                   IND   77.94    9- 2-1   0- 0-0   38.93    17
   7 Carlisle                    IND   76.42    6- 4-0   0- 0-0   47.78     6
   8 Cornell                     IND   70.44    5- 3-1   0- 0-0   48.25     5
   9 Chicago                     WES   69.86   11- 1-0   3- 1-0   23.15    26
  10 Dartmouth                   IND   68.67    4- 3-0   0- 0-0   44.24    13
  11 Wisconsin                   WES   68.18    9- 1-0   3- 0-0   17.83    29
  12 Brown                       IND   66.93    7- 4-0   0- 0-0   51.19     3
  13 Michigan                    WES   55.84    6- 1-1   2- 1-0   19.57    28
  14 Navy                        IND   55.71    7- 1-0   0- 0-0   24.97    22
  15 Illinois                    WES   55.27    6- 2-0   1- 1-0   26.73    21
  16 Wesleyan                    IND   43.65    6- 7-0   0- 0-0   49.78     4
  17 Dickinson                   IND   43.04    7- 3-2   0- 0-0   23.92    25
  18 Penn State                  IND   35.20    3- 6-0   0- 0-0   54.45     2
  19 Bucknell                    IND   32.84    3- 3-1   0- 0-0   39.62    15
  20 Trinity (Connecticut)       IND   31.60    4- 4-1   0- 0-0   31.06    19
  21 Northwestern                WES   24.67    5- 3-0   0- 2-0   24.18    23
  22 Lehigh                      IND   22.67    3- 7-0   0- 0-0   57.97     1
  23 Purdue                      WES   21.37    5- 3-1   1- 2-0   20.63    27
  24 Tufts                       IND   20.19    6- 7-0   0- 0-0   28.66    20
  25 Minnesota                   WES   19.15    4- 4-0   0- 3-0   23.94    24
  26 Franklin & Marshall         IND   10.14    2- 6-2   0- 0-0   36.80    18
  27 Minor Teams                        9.23   10-90-9   0- 0-0   47.46     7
  28 Amherst                     IND    8.74    2- 6-2   0- 0-0   39.01    16
  29 Williams                    IND    5.29    1- 7-1   0- 0-0   44.69    12

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                        # OF AVERAGE AVERAGE      OVERALL     NON-CONF                                   
CONFERENCE      ABBREV TEAMS   SCORE    RANK     W-  L- T     W-  L- T  BEST TEAM            RANK   SCORE

Independent        IND    21   53.18   13.86   125- 76-15   125- 76-15  Pennsylvania            1   95.90
Western            WES     7   44.91   16.71    46- 15- 2    36-  5- 2  Chicago                 9   69.86

The database used to produce the above rankings was constructed from data listed on James Howell's website.
Click here for criteria used for determining what scores to use and which team was the home team.

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