1899 Brown Bears football team

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.

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

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 Harvard
L 0–117,000–8,000[7][8][9]
October 28at Newton Athletic AssociationProvidence, RIW 35–0[10]
November 43:15 p.m.at Princeton
L 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 Chicago
L 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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  7. "Harvard---Brown". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 21, 1899. p. 2. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  8. "Harvard's Game". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 22, 1899. p. 1. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  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.
  10. "Brown 35, Newton 0". The Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. October 29, 1899. p. 14. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  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.
  12. "Princeton Wins". Sunday Leader. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. November 5, 1899. p. 1. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  13. "Brown Vs Technology". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 11, 1899. p. 8. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  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.
  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.
  16. "Brown Vs Dartmouth". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 25, 1899. p. 5. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  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.
  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.
  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.


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