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1899 Dartmouth football team

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1899 Dartmouth football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–7
Head coach
CaptainJoseph Wentworth
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 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1899 college football season. This season was the least successful under head coach William Wurtenburg. Of the nine games played during the year, only two were won. The team finished with the worst win percentage (.286) since the 1883 squad went winless, albeit against one team. The season began with easy defeats of Phillips Exeter Academy and Bowdoine. That luck quickly changed and the team dropped seven straight games. After being shut out by Yale, they lost in a close match to Williams. Following another close loss, Army, Dartmouth was defeated by Wesleyan.[1] The following game was the low point of the season, a 21–0 loss to Harvard. It was the worst defeat by the Crimson in nearly a decade. The year concluded with lopsided defeats by Columbia and Brown.[1]

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30Philips Exeter AcademyHanover, NHW 16–5[2]
October 7BowdoinHanover, NHW 37–0[3]
October 14vs. Yale
L 0–16[4]
October 21WilliamsHanover, NHL 10–12[5]
October 28at ArmyL 2–6[6]
November 4at Wesleyan
L 0–11[7]
November 113:00 p.m.at HarvardL 0–213,000[8][9][10][11]
November 18at ColumbiaL 0–221,000–1,500[12][13]
November 252:00 p.m.at BrownProvidence, RIL 5–16[14][15]

References

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  1. ^ a b Staff (2013). "William Wurtenburg coaching record–1899". William C. "Bill" Wurtenburg Records by Year. College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on May 5, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  2. ^ "Dartmouth 16, Exeter 5". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 1, 1899. p. 16. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  3. ^ "Dartmouth 37, Bowdoin 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 8, 1899. p. 22. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "Yale Defeats Dartmouth". The New York Times. October 15, 1899. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Williams 12, Dartmouth 10". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 22, 1899. p. 2. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "West Point Beats Dartmouth". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. October 29, 1899. p. 17. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "Wesleyan 11, Dartmouth 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 5, 1899. p. 21. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  8. ^ "Amusing Incident". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 11, 1899. p. 8. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  9. ^ "By Small Score". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 12, 1899. p. 1. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  10. ^ "By Small Score (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 12, 1899. p. 5. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  11. ^ "Harvard Wins In Mud". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. November 12, 1899. p. 18. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  12. ^ "Columbia Wins, 22 To 0". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 19, 1899. p. 9. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  13. ^ "Columbia 22, Dartmouth 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 19, 1899. p. 23. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  14. ^ "Brown Vs Dartmouth". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 25, 1899. p. 5. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  15. ^ "Brown Defeats Dartmouth". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 26, 1899. p. 12. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.