1896 Furman Purple Hurricane football team

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1896 Furman Purple Hurricane football
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1896 record2–3
Head coach
  • Coach Sims (1st season)
Seasons
  1895
1900  
1896 Southern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Centre   6 0 1
Texas A&M   2 0 1
Oklahoma   2 0 0
North Carolina A&M   1 0 0
Virginia   7 2 2
VPI   5 2 1
Navy   5 3 0
Arkansas   2 1 0
Clemson   2 1 0
Columbian   2 1 0
Add-Ran   1 1 1
Centenary   1 1 0
VMI   3 4 0
North Carolina   3 4 1
Furman   2 3 0
West Virginia   3 7 2
South Carolina   1 3 0
Erskine   0 1 0
William & Mary   0 2 0
Davison   0 1 0
Delaware   0 6 0

The 1896 Furman Purple Hurricane football team represented the Furman Purple Hurricane of Furman University during the 1896 college football season. [1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 23at Bingham Military School
L 0–12 [2]
October 31 Clemson Greenville, SC L 6–14
November 6at Wofford Spartanburg, SC L 0–6
November 13Charleston YMCAW 10–0
November 26 South Carolina Greenville, SCW 12–0

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References

  1. "Welcome cfbdatawarehouse.com - BlueHost.com". Archived from the original on 2016-10-01. Retrieved 2016-09-29.
  2. "Bingham winners, Furman's football team loses by a score of 12 to 0". The Asheville Daily Citizen. October 24, 1896. Retrieved March 4, 2022 via Newspapers.com.