1899 Lafayette football team

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1899 Lafayette football
ConferenceIndependent
Record12–1
Head coach
CaptainEdward Bray
Home stadiumMarch Field
Seasons
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1899 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Harvard  – 10 –0 –1
Lafayette  – 12 –1 –0
Princeton  – 12 –1 –0
Buffalo  – 7 –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
Dickinson  – 6 –6 –1
Holy Cross  – 5 –5 –0
Syracuse  – 4 –4 –0
Drexel  – 3 –3 –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 Lafayette football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1899 college football season. In its first year under head coach Samuel B. Newton, Lafayette compiled a 12–1 record, shut out 10 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 253 to 23. Significant games included victories over Penn (6–0), Lehigh (17–0 and 35–0), and Cornell (6–5), and its sole loss coming against co-national champion Princeton (0–12). [1] [2]

Contents

Two Lafayette players received recognition on the 1899 All-America football team. They are: fullback Edward G. Bray (Outing magazine, 2nd team; [3] Charles E. Patterson, 1st team); [4] and guard H. E. Trout (Walter Camp, 3rd team). [5]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30 Ursinus
W 34–0 [6]
October 4 Villanova
  • Lafayette Field
  • Easton, PA
W 13–0 [7]
October 7at Swarthmore Swarthmore, PA W 16–6 [8]
October 11at Princeton
L 0–121,500 [9]
October 14 Rutgers
  • Lafayette Field
  • Easton, PA
W 57–0 [10]
October 21at Penn
W 6–012,000 [11]
October 28at Navy
W 5–0
November 4 Lehigh
  • Lafayette Field
  • Easton, PA (rivalry)
W 17–04,000 [12]
November 7at Newark A.C. Newark, NJ W 16–03,000 [13]
November 11at Cornell
W 6–5500 [14]
November 18 Bucknell
  • Lafayette Field
  • Easton, PA
W 12–0 [15]
November 25at Lehigh Bethlehem, PA W 35–04,000 [16]
November 30 Dickinson
  • Lafayette Field
  • Easton, PA
W 36–03,500 [17]

Players

The following players were regulars on the 1899 Lafayette football team. [18]

Backs

Linemen

References

  1. ↑ "1899 Lafayette Leopards Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Lafayette Yearly Results (1895-1899)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Football" (PDF). The Outing Magazine. January 1900.
  4. ↑ "All-America Addendum -- Part 2" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. November 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 12, 2012. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Sport of the Amateur on Field and Water". Collier's Weekly. 24 (15): 20. January 13, 1900 – via Google books. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  6. ↑ "Lafayette Wins: Scores 34-0 in a Game with Ursinus Yesterday". Sunday News (Wilkes-Barre, PA). October 1, 1899. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Lafayette's Game Was Poor". The Times . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 5, 1899. p. 10. Retrieved June 29, 2025– via Newspapers.com Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg .
  8. ↑ "Quakers in a Fray: Lafayette College Downs Swarthmore in a Fiercely Played Contest". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 8, 1899. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Princeton Beats Lafayette". The New York Times. October 12, 1899. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "Rutgers Failed to Score: Lafayette Made Touchdowns Almost at Will and Ran Up 57 Points". The Times (Philadelphia). October 15, 1899. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Penn Is Defeated by the Lafayette Team". The Times (Philadelphia). October 22, 1899. pp. 1, 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Old Rivals on the Gridiron: Lafayette Downed Lehigh in Their Annual Game Yesterday". The Times (Philadelphia). November 5, 1899. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ "Lafayette Hard Pressed". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 8, 1899. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Cornell Taken In: New York's Crack College Team Beaten by Lafayette by a Score of 6 to 5". The Times (Philadelphia). November 12, 1899. p. 15.
  15. ↑ "Bucknell Downed: Lafayette Scores First Touchdown After Twenty Minutes Play". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 19, 1899. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ↑ "Lafayette Laughs: Meets and Defeats Her Old Rival, Lehigh, on the Latter's Own Field". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 26, 1899. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ↑ "Lafayette, 36; Dickinson, 0". The Times (Philadelphia). December 1, 1899. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ↑ "Football". The Lafayette. January 12, 1900. pp. 103–105.
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