1899 Lafayette football team
American college football season
1899 Lafayette football Conference Independent Record 12–1 Head coach Captain Edward Bray Home stadium March Field Seasons
The 1899 Lafayette football team represented Lafayette College in the 1899 college football season . Lafayette shut out 10 opponents and finished with a 12–1 record in their first year under head coach Samuel B. Newton . Significant games included victories over Penn (6–0), Lehigh (17–0 and 35–0), and Cornell (6–5), and its sole loss coming against co-national champion Princeton (0–12). The 1899 Lafayette team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 253 to 23.[ 1] [ 2]
Two Lafayette players received recognition on the 1899 College Football All-America Team . They are: fullback Edward G. Bray (Outing magazine, 2nd team;[ 3] Charles E. Patterson , 1st team);[ 4] and guard H. E. Trout (Walter Camp , 3rd team).[ 5]
Schedule
Date Opponent Site Result Attendance Source September 30 Ursinus W 34–0[ 6]
October 4 Villanova Lafayette Field Easton, PA W 13–0
October 7 at Swarthmore Swarthmore, PA W 16–6[ 7]
October 11 at Princeton L 0–121,500 [ 8]
October 14 Rutgers Lafayette Field Easton, PA W 57–0[ 9]
October 21 at Penn W 6–012,000 [ 10]
October 28 at Navy W 5–0
November 4 Lehigh Lafayette Field Easton, PA (rivalry ) W 17–04,000 [ 11]
November 7 at Newark A.C. Newark, NJ W 16–03,000 [ 12]
November 11 at Cornell W 6–5500 [ 13]
November 18 Bucknell Lafayette Field Easton, PA W 12–0[ 14]
November 25 at Lehigh Bethlehem, PA W 35–04,000 [ 15]
November 30 Dickinson Lafayette Field Easton, PA W 36–03,500 [ 16]
Players
The following players were regulars on the 1899 Lafayette football team.[ 17]
Backs
Edward G. "Ned" Bray - fullback, 5 feet, 11 inches, 174 pounds
Walter Hubley - quarterback, 5 feet, 8 inches, 155 pounds
Ross G. Knight - left halfback, 5 feet, 11 inches, 160 pounds
J. E. Platt - right halfback, 5 feet, 9 inches, 167 pounds
Linemen
Charles Schmidt - right guard, 5 feet, 10 inches, 182 pounds
Ned Ely - left end, 6 feet, 170 pounds
John Chalmers - left tackle and captain, 5 feet, 11 inches, 170 pounds
W. E. Bachman - center, 6 feet, 191 pounds
D. R. Brown - right end, 6 feet, 172 pounds
Joe Wiedenmayer - right tackle, 6 feet, 177 pounds
H. E. Trout - left guard, 5 feet, 11 inches, 190 pounds
L. P. Butler - guard
R. A. Freed - tackle
References
^ "1899 Lafayette Leopards Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015 .
^ "Lafayette Yearly Results (1895-1899)" . College Football Data Warehouse . David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015 .
^ "Football" (PDF) . The Outing Magazine . January 1900.
^ "All-America Addendum -- Part 2" (PDF) . College Football Historical Society Newsletter. November 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 12, 2012. Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
^ "Sport of the Amateur on Field and Water" . Collier's Weekly . 24 (15): 20. January 13, 1900 – via Google books .
^ "Lafayette Wins: Scores 34-0 in a Game with Ursinus Yesterday" . Sunday News (Wilkes-Barre, PA) . October 1, 1899. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Quakers in a Fray: Lafayette College Downs Swarthmore in a Fiercely Played Contest" . The Philadelphia Inquirer . October 8, 1899. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Princeton Beats Lafayette" . The New York Times . October 12, 1899. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Rutgers Failed to Score: Lafayette Made Touchdowns Almost at Will and Ran Up 57 Points" . The Times (Philadelphia) . October 15, 1899. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Penn Is Defeated by the Lafayette Team" . The Times (Philadelphia) . October 22, 1899. pp. 1, 10 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Old Rivals on the Gridiron: Lafayette Downed Lehigh in Their Annual Game Yesterday" . The Times (Philadelphia) . November 5, 1899. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Lafayette Hard Pressed" . The Philadelphia Inquirer . November 8, 1899. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Cornell Taken In: New York's Crack College Team Beaten by Lafayette by a Score of 6 to 5" . The Times (Philadelphia) . November 12, 1899. p. 15.
^ "Bucknell Downed: Lafayette Scores First Touchdown After Twenty Minutes Play" . The Philadelphia Inquirer . November 19, 1899. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Lafayette Laughs: Meets and Defeats Her Old Rival, Lehigh, on the Latter's Own Field" . The Philadelphia Inquirer . November 26, 1899. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Lafayette, 36; Dickinson, 0" . The Times (Philadelphia) . December 1, 1899. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Football" . The Lafayette . January 12, 1900. pp. 103–105.
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