1899 Lake Forest Foresters football team

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1899 Lake Forest Foresters football
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1899 Midwestern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Kansas  – 10 –0 –0
North Dakota  – 6 –0 –0
Detroit College  – 5 –0 –0
Ohio State  – 9 –0 –1
Iowa  – 8 –0 –1
Washington University  – 5 –1 –0
Missouri  – 9 –2 –0
Chicago P&S  – 4 –1 –0
Mount Union  – 5 –1 –1
Indiana  – 6 –2 –0
Wabash  – 1 –0 –1
Cincinnati  – 5 –2 –0
Drake  – 5 –2 –0
Heidelberg  – 5 –2 –0
Buchtel  – 2 –1 –0
Doane  – 2 –1 –0
Northern Illinois State  – 1 –0 –2
Notre Dame  – 6 –3 –1
Central Michigan  – 3 –2 –0
Fairmount  – 2 –1 –2
Carthage  – 3 –2 –1
Western Reserve  – 5 –4 –0
Wittenberg  – 5 –4 –0
Iowa State  – 5 –4 –1
Rush Medical  – 3 –3 –1
Ohio  – 2 –2 –0
Ohio Wesleyan  – 5 –5 –0
Haskell  – 4 –5 –0
Lake Forest  – 4 –6 –2
Kansas State  – 2 –3 –0
Michigan Agricultural  – 2 –4 –1
Iowa State Normal  – 1 –3 –2
Washburn  – 2 –5 –2
Butler  – 1 –3 –0
Miami (OH)  – 1 –5 –0
Nebraska  – 1 –7 –1
North Dakota Agricultural  – 0 –1 –0
Baldwin–Wallace  – 0 –4 –0

The 1899 Lake Forest football team was an American football team that represented the Lake Forest University in the 1899 college football season. [1]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
September 23 Lake View High School Lake Forest, IL W 11–5 [2]
September 30at Wisconsin
L 0–45 [3] [4]
October 7Lake Forest AlumniLake Forest, IlT 0–0 [5]
October 14 Notre Dame
L 0–38 [6]
October 21South Side AcademyLake Forest, ILW 11–5
October 253:00 p.m.at Northwestern
L 0–16 [7] [8]
November 1 Waukegan High School Lake Forest, ILW 17–0
November 4at Beloit Beloit, WI L 0–28 [9]
November 11at Kalamazoo Kalamazoo, MI L 6–21 [10]
November 18at Rush Medical
L 0–38 [11]
November 25Bennett MedicalLake Forest, ILT 0–0
November 30at Pontiac High School Pontiac, IL W 21–6 [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "1899 Schedule/Results". Lake Forest College Athletics. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  2. ↑ "1899 Schedule/Results". Lake Forest College Athletics. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Wisconsin Badgers Football Record By Year". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  4. ↑ "HOLLARS JOINS FOOTBALL SQDUA". Wisconsin State Journal. October 2, 1899. p. 1. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Alumni Game at Lake Forest". Chicago Tribune. October 7, 1899. p. 6. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  6. ↑ "Notre Dame, 38; Lake Forest, 0". The Inter Ocean. October 15, 1899. p. 10. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  7. ↑ "1899 Northwestern Wildcats Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  8. ↑ "2017 Northwestern Football Media Guide" (PDF). Northwestern University. p. 106. Retrieved June 16, 2018.
  9. ↑ "BELOIT DEFEATS LAKE FOREST". The Inter Ocean. November 5, 1899. p. 10. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  10. ↑ "Kalamazoo, 21; Lake Forest, 6". The Inter Ocean. November 12, 1899. p. 10. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  11. ↑ "RUSH MEDICS BEAT LAKE FOREST". Chicago Tribune. November 19, 1899. p. 19. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  12. ↑ "Football at Pontiac". The Pantagraph. November 30, 1899. p. 2. Retrieved June 3, 2020.


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