1899 Boston College football team

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1899 Boston College football
Conference Independent
Record 8?1?1
Head coach
Captain John Kelley, Charlie Kiley
Home stadium South End Grounds
Seasons
←  1898
1901  →
1899 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   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
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 Boston College football team was an American football team that represented Boston College as an independent during the 1899 college football season . Led by third-year head coach John Dunlop , Boston College compiled a record of 8?1?1.

Schedule [ edit ]

Date Opponent Site Result Attendance Source
September 27 Exeter Academy W 2?0
September 30 at Bates
T 0?0
October 11 at MIT W 24?0
October 14 Newton Athletic Club W 6?0
October 21 at New Hampshire Durham, NH W 6?0
October 26 at Andover Academy Andover, MA W 6?0
October 28 at Amherst Amherst, MA W 18?0 [1]
November 4 All-College
W 6?0
November 18 at Brown Providence, RI L 0?18 400 [2]
November 30 Holy Cross
  • South End Grounds
  • Boston MA ( rivalry )
W 17?0 6,000 [3]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "Amherst Team Outplayed" . Brooklyn Eagle . Brooklyn, New York . October 29, 1899. p. 7 . Retrieved April 2, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  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 icon.
  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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