1900 college football season

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The 1900 college football season ended with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Yale as having been selected national champions.[1]

Conference and program changes[]

  • The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives, commonly known as the Western Conference and the precursor to the modern Big Ten Conference, added two new members, Indiana and Iowa, to increase its membership to nine. It was after this expansion that the conference first gained the unofficial moniker Big Nine Conference.
School 1899 Conference 1900 Conference
Indiana Hoosiers Independent Big Nine (Western)
Iowa Hawkeyes Independent Big Nine (Western)

Conference standings[]

Major conference standings[]

1900 Colorado Football Association standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Colorado College $ 3 0 0 6 2 0
Colorado Mines 2 1 0 4 3 0
Colorado 1 2 0 6 4 0
Colorado Agricultural 0 3 0 1 3 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1900 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Clemson + 2 0 0 6 0 0
Sewanee + 5 0 1 6 1 1
Texas 1 0 0 6 0 0
Tulane 3 0 0 5 0 0
Auburn 4 0 0 4 0 0
North Carolina 3 0 1 4 1 3
Vanderbilt 2 3 1 4 4 1
Alabama 1 3 0 2 3 0
Nashville 1 3 0 2 3 0
Georgia 1 4 0 2 4 0
LSU 0 1 0 2 2 0
Cumberland (TN) 0 1 0 0 1 0
Tennessee 0 2 1 3 2 1
Kentucky 0 0 0 4 6 0
Ole Miss 0 3 0 0 3 0
Georgia Tech 0 3 0 0 4 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1900 Triangular Football League standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Wesleyan $ 2 0 0 5 4 0
Williams 1 1 0 6 4 1
Amherst 0 2 0 4 7 1
  • $ – Conference champion
1900 Western Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Minnesota + 3 0 1 10 0 2
Iowa + 2 0 1 7 0 1
Wisconsin 2 1 0 8 1 0
Michigan 3 2 0 7 2 1
Northwestern 2 1 2 7 2 3
Chicago 2 3 1 9 5 1
Indiana 1 2 1 4 2 2
Illinois 1 3 2 7 3 2
Purdue 0 4 0 4 4 0
  • + – Conference co-champions

Independents[]

1900 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     12 0 0
Penn     12 1 0
Harvard     10 1 0
Cornell     10 2 0
Geneva     5 1 1
Lafayette     9 2 0
Syracuse     7 2 1
Princeton     8 3 0
Drexel     5 2 0
Fordham     3 1 1
Army     7 3 1
Brown     7 3 1
Columbia     7 3 1
Villanova     5 2 2
Washington & Jefferson     6 3 1
Swarthmore     6 3 2
Holy Cross     5 3 1
Carlisle     6 4 1
Dickinson     5 4 0
Western Univ. of Penn     5 4 0
Bucknell     4 4 1
Pittsburgh College     3 3 1
Rutgers     4 4 0
Vermont     4 4 1
Lehigh     5 6 0
Frankin & Marshall     4 5 0
Temple     3 4 1
Penn State     4 6 1
Amherst     4 7 1
Dartmouth     2 4 2
NYU     3 6 1
Tufts     3 6 1
Wesleyan     3 6 1
New Hampshire     1 5 1
Colgate     2 8 0
CCNY     0 1 0
1900 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Central Michigan     1 0 0
Lake Forest     1 0 0
Haskell     9 1 0
North Dakota Agricultural     8 1 1
Ohio State     8 1 1
Nebraska     7 1 2
Beloit     7 1 2
Washburn     6 2 0
Wittenberg     5 2 1
Drake     6 3 0
Doane     2 1 0
Notre Dame     6 3 1
Fairmount     5 3 0
Detroit College     3 2 0
Washington University     3 2 1
Carthage     4 3 0
Wabash     5 4 0
Missouri     4 4 1
Northern Illinois State     2 2 2
Iowa State Normal     3 4 1
Buchtel     2 3 1
Cincinnati     3 5 1
Ohio     2 4 1
Kansas State     2 4 0
Kansas     2 5 2
Ohio Wesleyan     2 5 2
Iowa State     2 5 1
Butler     0 1 3
Heidelberg     0 2 2
Michigan Agricultural     1 3 0
Chicago P&S     1 3 0
Mount Union     1 4 1
Miami (OH)     0 4 0
1900 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Baylor     3 0 0
Davidson     4 1 0
Centre     4 1 1
Virginia     7 2 1
Georgetown     5 1 3
VMI     4 1 2
Oklahoma     3 1 1
Kendall     2 1 0
Marshall     1 0 2
Navy     6 3 0
Arkansas     2 1 1
South Carolina     4 3 0
West Virginia     4 3 0
VPI     3 3 1
Texas A&M     2 2 1
Richmond     3 4 0
Maryland     3 4 1
Delaware     2 3 1
William & Mary     1 2 0
Furman     0 2 1
North Carolina A&M     0 4 0
1900 Far West college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Washington Agricultural     4 0 1
Arizona     3 1 0
Stanford     7 2 1
Utah     2 1 0
California     4 2 1
Nevada State     4 2 1
Oregon     3 3 1
New Mexico A&M     3 3 1
San Jose State     3 3 1
Arizona Normal     1 1 0
USC     1 1 1
Wyoming     3 3 0
Washington     1 2 2
Montana     0 1 0
Utah Agricultural     0 2 0

Minor conferences[]

Conference Champion(s) Record
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Albion 5–0–1

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. pp. 76–77. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
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