1898 college football season

1898 college football season
Yale vs. Princeton in 1898
Total No. of teams31
Regular seasonSeptember 10 to December 3
Champion(s)Harvard
Princeton
football seasons

The 1898 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Harvard and Princeton as having been selected national champions.[1]

Conference standings

1898 Colorado Football Association standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Colorado Mines $ 2 – 0 – 0 8 – 0 – 0
Colorado College 1 – 1 – 0 5 – 1 – 1
Colorado 0 – 2 – 0 4 – 4 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1898 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Kalamazoo $ 5 – 0 – 0 7 – 0 – 0
Hillsdale 2 – 0 – 0 4 – 1 – 0
Michigan Agricultural 4 – 1 – 0 4 – 3 – 0
Michigan State Normal 0 – 3 – 0 1 – 5 – 2
Olivet 0 – 3 – 0 0 – 5 – 0
Albion 0 – 4 – 0 1 – 6 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Sewanee 3 – 0 – 0 4 – 0 – 0
Auburn 2 – 0 – 0 2 – 1 – 0
LSU 1 – 0 – 0 1 – 0 – 0
Georgia 3 – 1 – 0 4 – 2 – 0
Clemson 1 – 1 – 0 3 – 1 – 0
Tulane 1 – 1 – 0 1 – 1 – 0
Vanderbilt 1 – 2 – 0 1 – 5 – 0
Mississippi 0 – 1 – 0 1 – 1 – 0
Texas 0 – 1 – 0 5 – 1 – 0
Nashville 0 – 2 – 0 0 – 2 – 0
Georgia Tech 0 – 3 – 0 0 – 4 – 0
Kentucky State# 0 – 0 – 0 7 – 0 – 0
Cumberland (TN) 0 – 0 – 0 0 – 0 – 0
SW Presbyterian 0 – 0 – 0 0 – 0 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • # – State champion
1898 Triangular Football League standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Dartmouth $ 2 – 0 – 0 5 – 6 – 0
Amherst 1 – 1 – 0 4 – 5 – 1
Williams 0 – 2 – 0 3 – 8 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1898 Western Conference football standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Michigan $ 3 – 0 – 0 10 – 0 – 0
Chicago 3 – 1 – 0 14 – 2 – 1
Wisconsin 2 – 1 – 0 9 – 1 – 0
Illinois 1 – 1 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
Minnesota 1 – 2 – 0 4 – 5 – 0
Purdue 0 – 1 – 0 3 – 3 – 0
Northwestern 0 – 4 – 0 9 – 4 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion

Independents

1898 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   11 – 0 – 0
Drexel   –   7 – 0 – 0
Princeton   –   11 – 0 – 1
Penn   –   12 – 1 – 0
Buffalo   –   8 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   10 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   9 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   9 – 2 – 0
Yale   –   9 – 2 – 0
Dickinson   –   8 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   8 – 2 – 1
Wesleyan   –   7 – 3 – 0
Western Penn.   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   6 – 4 – 0
Carlisle   –   6 – 4 – 0
Penn State   –   6 – 4 – 0
Pittsburgh College   –   6 – 4 – 1
Army   –   3 – 2 – 1
Vermont   –   3 – 2 – 1
Holy Cross   –   5 – 4 – 1
Bucknell   –   4 – 4 – 3
Fordham   –   1 – 1 – 2
Frankin & Marshall   –   4 – 4 – 2
New Hampshire   –   4 – 4 – 0
Amherst   –   4 – 5 – 1
Villanova   –   2 – 4 – 1
Lehigh   –   3 – 6 – 1
Boston College   –   2 – 5 – 1
Colgate   –   2 – 5 – 1
Temple   –   2 – 5 – 0
Lafayette   –   3 – 8 – 0
NYU   –   1 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 6 – 1
Tufts   –   1 – 9 – 0
Geneva   –   0 – 6 – 1
1898 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Washington University   –   6 – 0 – 0
Detroit College   –   5 – 0 – 0
Carthage   –   3 – 0 – 0
Lincoln (MO)   –   1 – 0 – 0
Iowa State Normal   –   4 – 0 – 1
Washburn   –   4 – 0 – 1
Kansas   –   7 – 1 – 0
Cincinnati   –   6 – 1 – 2
Indiana   –   4 – 1 – 2
Nebraska   –   8 – 3 – 0
Drake   –   4 – 2 – 0
Lake Forest   –   2 – 1 – 0
Notre Dame   –   4 – 2 – 0
Western Reserve   –   5 – 3 – 0
Butler   –   2 – 1 – 1
Heidelberg   –   4 – 3 – 0
Michigan Agricultural   –   4 – 3 – 0
Iowa State   –   3 – 2 – 0
Kansas State   –   1 – 1 – 2
Miami (OH)   –   1 – 1 – 0
South Dakota Agricultural   –   1 – 1 – 1
DePauw   –   3 – 4 – 2
Iowa   –   3 – 4 – 2
Ohio State   –   3 – 5 – 0
Baldwin–Wallace   –   2 – 4 – 0
Central Michigan   –   1 – 2 – 0
Indiana State Normal   –   1 – 2 – 0
North Dakota Agricultural   –   1 – 2 – 0
Wabash   –   2 – 5 – 1
Ohio Wesleyan   –   2 – 5 – 0
Ohio   –   1 – 3 – 0
Haskell   –   2 – 7 – 0
Missouri   –   1 – 4 – 1
Wittenberg   –   1 – 5 – 1
Fairmount   –   0 – 1 – 0
College of Emporia   –   0 – 2 – 0
1898 Southern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
North Carolina   –   9 – 0 – 0
Central (KY)   –   3 – 0 – 1
Oklahoma   –   2 – 0 – 0
Navy   –   7 – 1 – 0
West Virginia   –   6 – 1 – 0
Marshall   –   4 – 1 – 0
Georgetown   –   7 – 3 – 0
Texas A&M   –   4 – 2 – 0
VMI   –   4 – 2 – 0
Arkansas Industrial   –   2 – 1 – 0
Centre   –   2 – 1 – 2
VPI   –   3 – 2 – 0
Virginia   –   6 – 5 – 0
Richmond   –   3 – 3 – 1
Davidson   –   1 – 1 – 0
William & Mary   –   1 – 1 – 0
South Carolina   –   1 – 2 – 0
Delaware   –   2 – 5 – 2
Columbian   –   3 – 6 – 0
North Carolina A&M   –   1 – 2 – 0
Add-Ran   –   1 – 3 – 1
Maryland   –   2 – 6 – 1
Guilford   –   0 – 3 – 0
1898 Far West college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
San Jose Normal   –   5 – 0 – 1
California   –   8 – 0 – 2
Nevada State   –   4 – 1 – 0
USC   –   5 – 1 – 1
Gonzaga   –   1 – 0 – 1
Oregon   –   3 – 1 – 0
New Mexico A&M   –   2 – 1 – 0
Utah   –   2 – 1 – 0
Stanford   –   5 – 3 – 1
Montana   –   3 – 2 – 0
Saint Mary's   –   3 – 2 – 0
Denver   –   6 – 4 – 1
Washington   –   1 – 1 – 0
Oregon Agricultural   –   1 – 2 – 1
Washington Agricultural   –   0 – 0 – 1
Utah Agricultural   –   0 – 1 – 0
Montana Agricultural   –   0 – 2 – 0
Pacific (CA)   –   0 – 0 – 2
Wyoming   –   0 – 4 – 0

See also

References

  1. ^ Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved October 16, 2009.
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