1898 Dartmouth football team

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1898 Dartmouth football
1898 Dartmouth football team.jpg
TFL champion
ConferenceTriangular Football League
1898 record5–6 (2–0 TFL)
Head coach
CaptainFred Crolius
Seasons
← 1897
1899 →
1898 Triangular Football League standings
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 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

The 1898 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1898 college football season.[1]

Despite finishing with a losing record, the 1898 Dartmouth team was regarded by some eastern sportswriters, most notably Outing, to be the best fielded by head coach William Wurtenburg.[2] Against an expanded schedule, the squad went only 5–6, but managed to outscore their opponents by a total of 205–137. The year began with a defeat of regular opponent Phillips Exeter Academy, and was followed by a shutout loss to Harvard. After two consecutive wins over nearby schools, Dartmouth lost to former Triangular Football League opponentWesleyan, 23–5.[3] The following two contests were against Triangular Football League opponents Amherst and Williams. The latter game was regarded as Dartmouth's most significant game of the season by eastern sportswriters, since Williams had hired two new coaches and expanded practices in order to win the conference in 1898. Dartmouth outdid Williams, however, and defeated them 10–6 to claim a sixth straight conference championship.[2] The season ended on a sour note with four straight losses on the road, two of them coming against Midwestern teams.[3]

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 30Phillips Exeter Academy*Hanover, NHW 23–5
October 8at Harvard*
L 0–21
October 15Bowdoin*Hanover, NHW 35–6
October 22at Vermont*
W 45–6[4]
October 29Wesleyan*Hanover, NHL 5–23
November 5at AmherstAmherst, MAW 64–6
November 12at WilliamsWilliamstown, MAW 10–6
November 21at Brown*Providence, RIL 0–12
November 24at Chicago Athletic Association*
L 5–18[5]
November 26at Cincinnati*
L 12–17
Unknownat Carlisle*Carlisle, PAL 6–17
  • *Non-conference game

References[]

  1. ^ 1898 Dartmouth College football scores and results Archived December 8, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 4, 2013.
  2. ^ a b Camp, Walter (November 1898). "Football of 1898: Prospects of the Season". Outing, an Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Recreation. Sampson Low, Marston & Company. XXXIII (2): 189–196. OCLC 228719114.
  3. ^ a b Staff (2013). "William Wurtenburg coaching record–1898". William C. "Bill" Wurtenburg Records by Year. College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on May 5, 2014. Retrieved December 6, 2014.
  4. ^ "Dartmouth 45, Uni. of VT. 6". The Boston Globe. October 23, 1898. Retrieved September 6, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "C. A. A. Defeats Dartmouth Boys". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. November 25, 1898. p. 4. Retrieved September 6, 2021 – via Newspapers.com open access.


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