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1899 Dickinson football team

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1899 Dickinson football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–6–1
Head coach
Seasons
← 1898
1900 →
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 Dickinson football team was an American football team that represented Dickinson College as an independent during the 1899 college football season. The team compiled a 6–6–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 184 to 108. Nathan Stauffer was the head coach.[1]

Andrew Kerr, later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, was a student at Dickinson at the time but did not play for the varsity football team.

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 20Lebanon ValleyCarlisle, PAW 36–0
September 30at Baltimore MedicalBaltimore, MDW 11–0
October 7at HaverfordHaverford, PAT 0–0
October 11VillanovaCarlisle, PAcancelled[2]
October 14at Franklin & MarshallLancaster, PAW 51–0
October 21vs. CarlisleCarlisle, PAL 7–16
October 28at Penn State
L 0–15
November 4SwarthmoreCarlisle, PAL 5–6[3]
November 8Mount St. Mary'sCarlisle, PAW 41–0
November 11at GettysburgGettysburg, PAL 5–11
November 15at Georgetown
W 5–0
November 22SyracuseCarlisle, PAL 7–18
November 25at SusquehannaSelinsgrove, PAW 16–6
November 30at Lafayette
L 0–363,500[4]

References

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  1. ^ "1899 Dickinson Red Devils Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  2. ^ "Kick Over Officials". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 12, 1899. p. 6. Retrieved November 11, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  3. ^ "Swarthmore's Close Call: Dickinson Was Beaten in a Hard Game by One Point". The Philadelphia Times. November 5, 1899. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Lafayette, 36; Dickinson, 0". The Times (Philadelphia). December 1, 1899. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.