1899 Dartmouth football team

1899 Dartmouth football
Conference	Triangular Football League
1899 record	2–7 (0–2 TFL)
Head coach	William Wurtenburg (5th year)
Captain	Joseph Wentworth
Home stadium	Unknown

The 1899 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1899 college football season. This season was the least successful under Wurtenburg. Of the nine games played during the year, only two were won. The team finished with the worst win percentage (.286) since the 1883 squad went winless, albeit against one team. The season began with easy defeats of Phillips Exeter and Bowdoin College. That luck quickly changed and the team dropped seven straight games. After being shut out by Yale, they lost in a close match to Williams; it was Dartmouth's first Triangular Football League loss since 1892. Following another close loss, to West Point, Dartmouth was defeated by Wesleyan, their other conference opponent, to finish winless in TFL play.^[1] The following game was the low point of the season, a 21–0 loss to Harvard. It was the worst defeat by the Crimson in nearly a decade. The year concluded with lopsided defeats by Columbia and Brown.^[1]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 30	Philips Exeter Academy*	Unknown • Hanover, NH	W 16–5
October 7	Bowdoin College*	Unknown • Hanover, NH	W 37–0
October 14	vs. Yale*	Unknown • Newton, MA	L 0–16
October 21	Williams	Unknown • Hanover, NH	L 10–12
October 28	at West Point*	"The Plain" • West Point, NY	L 2–6
November 4	at Wesleyan	Unknown • Middletown, CT	L 0–11
November 11	at Harvard*	Soldier Field • Cambridge, MA	L 0–21
November 18	vs. Columbia*	Manhattan Field • New York, NY	L 0–22
November 25	at Brown*	Unknown • Providence, RI	L 5–16
*Non-conference game.

References

1 2 Staff (2013). "William Wurtenburg coaching record–1899". William C. "Bill" Wurtenburg Records by Year. College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on May 5, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2014.

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