1899 Boston College football team

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1899 Boston College football
ConferenceIndependent
1899 record8–1–1
Head coach
CaptainJohn Kelley, Charlie Kiley
Home stadium South End Grounds
Seasons
←  1898
1901  →
1899 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Harvard  – 10 –0 –1
Buffalo  – 6 –0 –0
Lafayette  – 12 –1 –0
Princeton  – 12 –1 –0
Boston College  – 8 –1 –1
Carlisle  – 9 –2 –0
Swarthmore  – 8 –1 –2
Washington & Jefferson  – 9 –2 –1
Wesleyan  – 7 –2 –0
Pittsburgh College  – 2 –0 –2
Villanova  – 7 –2 –1
Yale  – 7 –2 –1
Western Univ. of Penn.  – 3 –1 –1
Columbia  – 9 –3 –0
Fordham  – 3 –1 –0
Cornell  – 7 –3 –0
Penn  – 8 –3 –2
Brown  – 7 –3 –1
New Hampshire  – 4 –2 –0
Vermont  – 5 –3 –0
Tufts  – 7 –4 –0
Bucknell  – 6 –4 –0
Holy Cross  – 5 –5 –0
Syracuse  – 4 –4 –0
Army  – 4 –5 –0
Colgate  – 4 –5 –0
Penn State  – 4 –6 –1
Frankin & Marshall  – 3 –5 –1
NYU  – 2 –6 –0
Temple  – 1 –4 –1
Dartmouth  – 2 –7 –0
Lehigh  – 2 –9 –0
Rutgers  – 2 –9 –0
Geneva  – 0 –3 –0

The 1899 Boston College football team was an American football team that represented Boston College during the 1899 college football season.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 27 Exeter Academy W 2–0
September 30at Bates
T 0–0
October 11at MIT W 24–0
October 14Newton Athletic ClubW 6–0
October 21at New Hampshire Durham, NH W 6–0
October 26at Andover Academy Andover, MA W 6–0
October 28at Amherst Amherst, MA W 18–0 [1]
November 4All-College
W 6–0
November 18at Brown Providence, RI L 0–18400 [2]
November 30 Holy Cross
  • South End Grounds
  • Boston MA (rivalry)
W 17–06,000 [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Amherst Team Outplayed". Brooklyn Eagle . Brooklyn, New York. October 29, 1899. p. 7. Retrieved April 2, 2021– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  2. ↑ "Brown 18, Boston College 0". The Boston Sunday Globe . Boston, Massachusetts. November 19, 1899. p. 5. Retrieved March 13, 2022– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  3. ↑ "B.C.'s Grand Victory; Holy Cross Only Once Came Near Goal Line". The Boston Daily Globe . Boston, Mass. December 1, 1899. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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