| Year: | 1917 |
| Team: | Idaho |
| Sport: | football |
| Conference: | Independent |
| Record: | 2–3 |
| Head Coach: | Wilfred C. Bleamaster |
| Hc Year: | 2nd |
| Captain: | Tom Jackson |
| Stadium: | MacLean Field |
| Next: | 1919 |
The 1917 Idaho football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1917 college football season. Idaho was led by second-year head coach Wilfred C. Bleamaster and played as an independent; they joined the Pacific Coast Conference five years later Idaho had two home games in Moscow on campus at MacLean Field, with none in Boise.
Idaho dropped a fourth consecutive shutout to Washington State in the Battle of the Palouse, falling Six years later, the Vandals won the first of three consecutive, their only three-peat in the rivalry series.
Idaho opened with three losses, then won twice for a record; they did not play Gonzaga this season.
The following year in 1918, Idaho's football team was non-varsity, composed of Student Army Training Corps (SATC) After the Armistice ending World War I, they played a limited schedule and defeated Washington State's SATC team 7–6 in Moscow in December.[1] [2]
Idaho's first two games were against Gonzaga; the opener in Moscow on November 16 was a 13–7 Idaho win,[3] and they tied the next week in Spokane at seven points each.[4] Idaho played another in Spokane on November 30, a 0–68 loss to a team of U.S. Marines from Mare Island Naval Shipyard in