1898 Brown Bears football team

1898 Brown Bears football
Conference	Independent
1898 record	6–4
Head coach	Eddie N. Robinson (1st season)
Captain	Fred W. Murphy
Seasons ← 1897 1899 →

1898 Eastern college football independents records
v t	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
Army		–		3	–	2	–	1
Vermont		–		3	–	2	–	1
Holy Cross		–		5	–	4	–	1
Pittsburgh College		–		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

The 1898 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In their first year under head coach Eddie N. Robinson, the team compiled a 6–4 record and outscored opponents by a total of 135 to 96.^[1] Fred W. Murphy was the team captain.

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 1	Holy Cross	Andrews Field Providence, RI	W 19–0
October 5	Tufts	Andrews Field Providence, RI	W 29–6
October 8	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–18
October 12	Colby	Andrews Field Providence, RI	W 41–5
October 19	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 6–22
October 26	Boston College	Andrews Field Providence, RI	W 6–0
October 29	at Princeton	University Field Princeton, NJ	L 0–23
November 5	Newton AA	Andrews Field Providence, RI	W 16–5
November 12	at Harvard	Cambridge, MA	L 6–17
November 19	Dartmouth	Andrews Field Providence, RI	W 12–0

References[]

^ "1898 Brown Bears Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 19, 2021.

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