1898 Buffalo football team

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1898 Buffalo football
ConferenceIndependent
1898 record8–1
Head coach
  • None
Home stadiumOlympic Park
Seasons
← 1897
1899 →
1898 Eastern college football independents records
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 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 Buffalo football team represented the University at Buffalo as an independent during the 1898 college football season. The team compiled an 8–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 214 to 42.[1] The team had no coach and played its home games at Olympic Park in Buffalo, New York.

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 1at Towanda A.A.Towanda, PAW 29–0
October 8Rensselaer Tech
  • Olympic Park
  • Buffalo, NY
W 12–5[2]
October 15at Cornell
L 0–27[3]
October 22at Company C, National GuardBradford, PAW 23–0[4]
October 29Case
  • Olympic Park
  • Buffalo, NY
W 29–0[5]
November 8Colgate
  • Olympic Park
  • Buffalo, NY
W 23–0[6][7]
November 12Company C, National Guard
  • Olympic Park
  • Buffalo, NY
W 28–0[8]
November 19Cornell B team
  • Olympic Park
  • Buffalo, NY
W 34–0[9]
November 24Bucknell
  • Olympic Park
  • Buffalo, NY
W 36–5[10]

References[]

  1. ^ "Buffalo Yearly Results (1895-1899)". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on 2015-09-05. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
  2. ^ "'Varsity's Opening: First Home Game Resulted in a Victory". The Illustrated Buffalo Express. October 9, 1898. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Could Not Score: Cornell Too Much for Buffalo 'Varsity". The Illustrated Buffalo Express. October 16, 1898. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "'Varsity Did Well: Defeated Bradford by a Good Score". The Illustrated Buffalo Express. October 23, 1898. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Great Is Cursons: He Was the Whole Thing in Yesterday's Game; Made a Great Run". Buffalo Sunday Morning Times. October 30, 1898. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Madisonensis: Buffalo 23, Colgate 0". Archived from the original on 2020-07-01. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  7. ^ "Mighty Cursons". The Buffalo Commercial. November 9, 1898. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Bradford Beaten Again By University of Buffalo". The Buffalo Courier. November 13, 1898. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Varsity Won Again: Cornell's Scrub Team Was Badly Beaten". The Buffalo Courier. November 20, 1898. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "In a Walk Buffalo 'Varsity Is Easily the Peer of the Second Division; Bucknell Wasn't in It". Buffalo Evening Times. November 25, 1898 – via Newspapers.com.
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