1900 college football season

1900 college football season
Yale Bulldogs
Champion(s)	Yale
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The 1900 college football season ended with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Yale as having been selected national champions. ^[1]

Conference and program changes

• The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives , commonly known as the Western Conference and the precursor to the modern Big Ten Conference, added two new members, Indiana and Iowa, to increase its membership to nine. It was after this expansion that the conference first gained the unofficial moniker Big Nine Conference.

School	1899 Conference	1900 Conference
Indiana Hoosiers	Independent	Big Nine (Western)
Iowa Hawkeyes	Independent	Big Nine (Western)

Conference standings

Major conference standings

1900 Colorado Football Association standings v t e Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Colorado College $ 3 – 0 – 0     6 – 2 – 0 Colorado Mines 2 – 1 – 0     4 – 3 – 0 Colorado 1 – 2 – 0     6 – 4 – 0 Colorado Agricultural 0 – 3 – 0     1 – 3 – 0 $ – Conference champion	1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings v t e Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Clemson $ 2 – 0 – 0     6 – 0 – 0 Sewanee 5 – 0 – 1     6 – 1 – 1 Tulane 3 – 0 – 0     5 – 0 – 0 Auburn 4 – 0 – 0     4 – 0 – 0 Texas 1 – 0 – 0     6 – 0 – 0 North Carolina 3 – 0 – 1     4 – 1 – 3 Vanderbilt 2 – 3 – 1     4 – 4 – 1 Alabama 1 – 3 – 0     2 – 3 – 0 Nashville 1 – 3 – 0     1 – 3 – 0 Georgia 1 – 4 – 0     2 – 4 – 0 LSU 0 – 1 – 0     2 – 2 – 0 Cumberland (TN) 0 – 1 – 0     0 – 1 – 0 Tennessee 0 – 2 – 1     3 – 2 – 1 Kentucky State 0 – 2 – 0     4 – 6 – 0 Ole Miss 0 – 3 – 0     0 – 3 – 0 Georgia Tech 0 – 3 – 0     0 – 4 – 0 $ – Conference champion	1900 Triangular Football League standings v t e Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Wesleyan $ 2 – 0 – 0     5 – 4 – 0 $ – Conference champion
1900 Western Conference football standings v t e Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Minnesota + 3 – 0 – 1     10 – 0 – 2 Iowa + 2 – 0 – 1     7 – 0 – 1 Wisconsin 2 – 1 – 0     8 – 1 – 0 Michigan 3 – 2 – 0     7 – 2 – 1 Northwestern 2 – 1 – 2     7 – 2 – 3 Chicago 2 – 3 – 1     9 – 5 – 1 Indiana 1 – 2 – 1     4 – 2 – 2 Illinois 1 – 3 – 2     7 – 3 – 2 Purdue 0 – 4 – 0     4 – 4 – 0 + – Conference co-champions

Independents

1900 Eastern college football independents records v t e Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Yale   –       12 – 0 – 0 Penn   –       12 – 1 – 0 Harvard   –       10 – 1 – 0 Cornell   –       10 – 2 – 0 Geneva   –       5 – 1 – 1 Lafayette   –       9 – 2 – 0 Syracuse   –       7 – 2 – 1 Princeton   –       8 – 3 – 0 Fordham   –       3 – 1 – 1 Army   –       7 – 3 – 1 Brown   –       7 – 3 – 1 Columbia   –       7 – 3 – 1 Villanova   –       5 – 2 – 2 Carlisle   –       6 – 4 – 1 Dickinson   –       5 – 4 – 0 Western Univ. of Penn   –       5 – 4 – 0 Bucknell   –       4 – 4 – 1 Rutgers   –       4 – 4 – 0 Lehigh   –       5 – 6 – 0 Frankin & Marshall   –       4 – 5 – 0 Temple   –       3 – 4 – 1 Pittsburgh College   –       2 – 3 – 1 Penn State   –       4 – 6 – 1 Amherst   –       4 – 7 – 1 Dartmouth   –       2 – 4 – 2 NYU   –       3 – 6 – 1 Tufts   –       3 – 6 – 1 Wesleyan   –       3 – 6 – 1 New Hampshire   –       1 – 5 – 1 Colgate   –       2 – 8 – 0 CCNY   –       0 – 1 – 0	1900 Midwestern college football independents records v t e Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Lake Forest   –       1 – 0 – 0 Haskell   –       9 – 1 – 0 North Dakota Agricultural   –       8 – 1 – 1 Ohio State   –       8 – 1 – 1 Nebraska   –       7 – 1 – 2 Beloit   –       7 – 1 – 2 Washburn   –       6 – 2 – 0 Wittenberg   –       5 – 2 – 1 Drake   –       6 – 3 – 0 Doane   –       2 – 1 – 0 Notre Dame   –       6 – 3 – 1 Fairmount   –       5 – 3 – 0 Detroit College   –       3 – 2 – 0 Washington University   –       3 – 2 – 1 Carthage   –       4 – 3 – 0 Wabash   –       5 – 4 – 0 Missouri   –       4 – 4 – 1 Cincinnati   –       3 – 4 – 1 Iowa State Normal   –       3 – 4 – 1 Buchtel   –       2 – 3 – 1 Ohio   –       2 – 4 – 1 Kansas State   –       2 – 4 – 0 Kansas   –       2 – 5 – 2 Ohio Wesleyan   –       2 – 5 – 2 Iowa State   –       2 – 5 – 1 Butler   –       0 – 1 – 3 Heidelberg   –       0 – 2 – 2 Michigan Agricultural   –       1 – 3 – 0 Chicago P&S   –       1 – 3 – 0 Mount Union   –       1 – 4 – 1	1900 Southern college football independents records v t e Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Baylor   –       3 – 0 – 0 Davidson   –       4 – 1 – 0 Centre   –       4 – 1 – 1 Virginia   –       7 – 2 – 1 Georgetown   –       5 – 1 – 3 VMI   –       4 – 1 – 2 Oklahoma   –       3 – 1 – 1 Kendall   –       2 – 1 – 0 Marshall   –       1 – 0 – 2 Navy   –       6 – 3 – 0 Arkansas   –       2 – 1 – 1 South Carolina   –       4 – 3 – 0 West Virginia   –       4 – 3 – 0 VPI   –       3 – 3 – 1 Texas A&M   –       2 – 2 – 1 Richmond   –       3 – 4 – 0 Maryland   –       3 – 4 – 1 Delaware   –       2 – 3 – 1 William & Mary   –       1 – 2 – 0 Furman   –       0 – 2 – 1 North Carolina A&M   –       0 – 4 – 0
1900 Far West college football independents records v t e Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Washington Agricultural   –       4 – 0 – 1 Arizona   –       3 – 1 – 0 Stanford   –       7 – 2 – 1 Utah   –       2 – 1 – 0 California   –       4 – 2 – 1 Nevada State   –       4 – 2 – 1 Oregon   –       3 – 3 – 1 New Mexico A&M   –       3 – 3 – 1 San Jose State   –       3 – 3 – 1 Arizona Normal   –       1 – 1 – 0 USC   –       1 – 1 – 1 Wyoming   –       3 – 3 – 0 Washington   –       1 – 2 – 2 Montana   –       0 – 1 – 0 Utah Agricultural   –       0 – 2 – 0

Minor conferences

Conference	Champion(s)	Record
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association	Albion	5–0–1

See also

• 1900 College Football All-America Team

References

1. Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. pp. 76–77. Retrieved 2009-10-16.