1899 college football season
1899 college football season | |||||
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1899 Sewanee Tigers | |||||
Total # of teams | 41[1] | ||||
Number of bowls | 0 | ||||
Champions |
Harvard Crimson Princeton Tigers | ||||
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The 1899 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Harvard and Princeton as having been selected national champions.[2]
Chicago and Sewanee went undefeated. With just 13 players, the Sewanee team, known as the "Iron Men", had a six-day road trip with five shutout wins over Texas A&M; Texas; Tulane; LSU; and Ole Miss. Sportswriter Grantland Rice called the group "the most durable football team I ever saw."[3]
Conference and program changes
School | 1898 Conference | 1899 Conference |
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Arizona Varsity | Program Established | Independent |
Baylor football | Program Established | Independent |
Davidson Wildcats | Independent | SIAA |
Furman Hornets | Independent | SIAA |
Conference standings
The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:
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See also
References
- ↑ http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cf1899.htm
- ↑ Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
- ↑ "Grantland Rice". Reading Eagle. November 27, 1941.
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