1899 Brown Bears football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–3–1
Head coach
CaptainH. S. Pratt
1899 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University as an independent during the 1899 college football season.[1] Led by second-year head coach Edward N. Robinson, Brown compiled a record of 7–3–1. The team's captain was H. S. Pratt.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 30at Holy Cross
W 19–0[2]
October 4Tufts
W 6–0[3]
October 7PennProvidence, RIT 6–61,000–2,000[4][5]
October 14CampelloProvidence, RIW 25–0350[6]
October 213:00 p.m.at HarvardL 0–117,000–8,000[7][8][9]
October 28at Newton Athletic AssociationProvidence, RIW 35–0[10]
November 43:15 p.m.at PrincetonL 6–183,500[11][12]
November 11MIT
  • Brown Field
  • Providence, RI
W 38–0[13][14]
November 18Boston CollegeProvidence, RIW 18–0400[15]
November 252:00 p.m.DartmouthProvidence, RIW 16–5[16][17]
November 30at ChicagoL 6–1710,000[18][19]

References

  1. "Brown Bears Football Media Guide" (PDF). brownbears.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 25, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
  2. "Brown, 17; Holy Cross, 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn, N.Y. October 1, 1899. p. 44 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Brown 6, Tufts 0". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 5, 1899. p. 8. Retrieved March 13, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. "U. Of P. Tied". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 8, 1899. p. 22. Retrieved March 13, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. "Brown Played Quakers A Tie". The Philadelphia Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 8, 1899. p. 11. Retrieved March 13, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. "Brown 25, Campello 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 15, 1899. p. 20. Retrieved March 13, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. "Harvard---Brown". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 21, 1899. p. 2. Retrieved March 13, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  8. "Harvard's Game". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 22, 1899. p. 1. Retrieved March 13, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  9. "Harvard's Game (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 22, 1899. p. 2. Retrieved March 13, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  10. "Brown 35, Newton 0". The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 29, 1899. p. 14. Retrieved March 13, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  11. "Princeton Downed Brown". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. St. Louis, Missouri. November 5, 1899. p. 14. Retrieved March 13, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  12. "Princeton Wins". Sunday Leader. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. November 5, 1899. p. 1. Retrieved March 13, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  13. "Brown Vs Technology". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 11, 1899. p. 8. Retrieved March 13, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  14. "Brown 38, M. I. T. 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 12, 1899. p. 5. Retrieved March 13, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  15. "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.
  16. "Brown Vs Dartmouth". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 25, 1899. p. 5. Retrieved March 13, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  17. "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.
  18. "Stagg's Men Win". The Daily Inter Ocean. Chicago, Illinois. December 1, 1899. p. 1. Retrieved March 13, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  19. "Stagg's Men Win (continued)". The Daily Inter Ocean. Chicago, Illinois. December 1, 1899. p. 4. Retrieved March 13, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.


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