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1899 Western Conference football season Sport Football Number of teams 7 Champion
Chicago
The 1899 Western Conference football season was the fourth season of
college football played by the member schools of the
Western Conference (later known as the Big Ten Conference) and was a part of the
1899 college football season .
The
1899 Chicago Maroons football team , under head coach
Amos Alonzo Stagg , won the conference championship with a 16–0–2 overall record (4–0 against conference opponents), led the conference in both scoring offense (28.1 points per game) and scoring defense (1.6 points per game), shut out 13 of 18 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 505 to 28.
Season overview
Results and team statistics
Key
PPG = Average of points scored per game
[1]
PAG = Average of points allowed per game
[1]
Regular season
Only 12 conference games were played during the 1899 Western Conference season. The results were as follows:
October 14, 1899: Wisconsin defeated Northwestern, 38-0, at
Madison, Wisconsin
October 28, 1899: Michigan defeated Illinois, 5-0, at
Champaign, Illinois
November 4, 1899: Chicago defeated Purdue, 44-0, at
Chicago
[2]
November 4, 1899: Northwestern defeated Minnesota, 11-0, at
Minneapolis
November 11, 1899: Chicago defeated Northwestern, 76-0, at Chicago
November 11, 1899: Wisconsin defeated Illinois, 23-0, at
Milwaukee
November 18, 1899: Wisconsin defeated Minnesota, 19-0, at Minneapolis
November 22, 1899: Purdue defeated Illinois, 5-0, at
West Lafayette, Indiana
[3]
November 25, 1899: Chicago defeated Minnesota, 29-0, at Chicago
November 25, 1899: Northwestern defeated Purdue, 29-0, at
Evanston, Illinois
[4]
November 30, 1899: Wisconsin defeated Michigan, 17-5, at Chicago
December 9, 1899: Chicago defeated Wisconsin, 17-0, at Madison, Wisconsin
Notable non-conference games during the 1899 season included the following:
October 4, 1899: Chicago defeated
Notre Dame , 23–6, at Chicago
October 14, 1899: Illinois lost to
Indiana , 5–0, at Champaign, Illinois
October 18, 1899: Michigan defeated Notre Dame, 12–0, at Ann Arbor, Michigan
October 21, 1899: Minnesota defeated
Iowa State , 6–0, at Minneapolis
October 7, 1899: Chicago tied with
Iowa , 5–5, at Chicago
October 14, 1899: Chicago defeated
Cornell , 17–6, at Chicago
October 21, 1899: Wisconsin lost to
Yale , 6–0, at
New Haven, Connecticut
October 28, 1899: Chicago tied with
Penn , 5–5, at Chicago
October 28, 1899: Northwestern lost to Notre Dame, 12–0, at
South Bend, Indiana
November 4, 1899: Michigan defeated
Virginia , 38–0, at
Detroit
November 11, 1899: Michigan lost to Penn, 11–10, at
Philadelphia
November 18, 1899: Northwestern defeated Indiana, 11–6, at Evanston, Illinois
[5]
November 18, 1899: Purdue tied Notre Dame, 10–10, at West Lafayette, Indiana
November 25, 1899: Illinois defeated
Saint Louis , 29–0, at
St. Louis
November 30, 1899: Chicago defeated Brown, 17–6, at Chicago
November 30, 1899: Purdue lost to Indiana, 17–5, at West Lafayette, Indiana
[6]
November 30, 1899: Illinois lost to Iowa, 58–0, at Champaign, Illinois
Bowl games
No bowl games were played during the 1899 season.
Awards and honors
All-Western players
The Northwestern named a
1899 All-Western college football team that consisted of the following players:
[7]
Neil Snow , end, Michigan
James M. Sheldon , end, Chicago
Arthur Hale Curtis , tackle, Wisconsin
Jonathan E. Webb, tackle, Chicago
Richard France , guard, Michigan
C. Rogers, guard, Wisconsin
Roy Chamberlain, center, Wisconsin
Walter S. Kennedy , quarterback, Chicago
Ralph C. Hamill, halfback, Chicago
John McLean , halfback, Michigan
Pat O'Dea , fullback, Wisconsin
All-Americans
No Western Conference players were selected as first-team players on the
1899 College Football All-America Teams selected by
Walter Camp and
Caspar Whitney . However, the Philadelphhia Inquirer picked an All-American that named four Western Conference players to the first team: end
Neil Snow of Michigan; tackle
Richard France of Michigan; quarterback
Walter S. Kennedy of Chicago; and halfback
John McLean of Michigan.
[8]
References
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a
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"1899 Western Conference Year Summary" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 26, 2016 .
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"Maroons Score at Will" . Chicago Tribune . November 5, 1899. p. 17 – via
Newspapers.com .
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"Purdue Wins, 5 to 0" . The Indianapolis Journal . November 23, 1899. p. 5 – via
Newspapers.com .
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"Purple Defeats Purdue: Northwestern Plays Season's Last Game in Fine Form" . Chicago Tribune . November 26, 1899. p. 19 – via
Newspapers.com .
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"Notre Dame, 10; Purdue, 10" . The Indianapolis Journal . November 19, 1899. p. 4 – via
Newspapers.com .
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"Purdue Beaten by I. U." The Indianapolis News . December 1, 1899. p. 12 – via
Newspapers.com .
^
"All-Western, All-Eastern, All-American" . The Northwestern . December 14, 1899. p. 11.
^ "An All-American Football Team In Fact, Three of Them, and All Picked upon Different Lines". The Philadelphia Inquirer . December 11, 1899.
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