1899 Dartmouth football team

The 1899 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College as an independent during the 1899 college football season. This season was the least successful under head coach William Wurtenburg. Of the nine games played during the year, only two were won. The team finished with the worst win percentage (.286) since the 1883 squad went winless, albeit against one team. The season began with easy defeats of Phillips Exeter Academy and Bowdoine. That luck quickly changed and the team dropped seven straight games. After being shut out by Yale, they lost in a close match to Williams. Following another close loss, Army, Dartmouth was defeated by Wesleyan.^[1] The following game was the low point of the season, a 21–0 loss to Harvard. It was the worst defeat by the Crimson in nearly a decade. The year concluded with lopsided defeats by Columbia and Brown.^[1]

1899 Dartmouth football
Conference	Independent
Record	2–7
Head coach	William Wurtenburg (5th season)
Captain	Joseph Wentworth
Seasons ← 1898 1900 →

1899 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					10	–	0	–	1
Lafayette			–					12	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					12	–	1	–	0
Buffalo			–					7	–	1	–	0
Boston College			–					8	–	1	–	1
Carlisle			–					9	–	2	–	0
Swarthmore			–					8	–	1	–	2
Washington & Jefferson			–					9	–	2	–	1
Wesleyan			–					7	–	2	–	0
Pittsburgh College			–					2	–	0	–	2
Villanova			–					7	–	2	–	1
Yale			–					7	–	2	–	1
Western Univ. of Penn.			–					3	–	1	–	1
Columbia			–					9	–	3	–	0
Fordham			–					3	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					7	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					8	–	3	–	2
Brown			–					7	–	3	–	1
New Hampshire			–					4	–	2	–	0
Vermont			–					5	–	3	–	0
Tufts			–					7	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					6	–	4	–	0
Holy Cross			–					5	–	5	–	0
Syracuse			–					4	–	4	–	0
Drexel			–					3	–	3	–	0
Army			–					4	–	5	–	0
Colgate			–					4	–	5	–	0
Penn State			–					4	–	6	–	1
Frankin & Marshall			–					3	–	5	–	1
NYU			–					2	–	6	–	0
Temple			–					1	–	4	–	1
Dartmouth			–					2	–	7	–	0
Lehigh			–					2	–	9	–	0
Rutgers			–					2	–	9	–	0
Geneva			–					0	–	3	–	0

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 30		Philips Exeter Academy	Hanover, NH	W 16–5		^[2]
October 7		Bowdoin	Hanover, NH	W 37–0		^[3]
October 14		vs. Yale	Newton Athletic Association grounds Newton, MA	L 0–16		^[4]
October 21		Williams	Hanover, NH	L 10–12		^[5]
October 28		at Army	The Plain West Point, NY	L 2–6		^[6]
November 4		at Wesleyan	Andrus Field Middletown, CT	L 0–11		^[7]
November 11	3:00 p.m.	at Harvard	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA (rivalry)	L 0–21	3,000	^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]
November 18		at Columbia	Manhattan Field New York, NY	L 0–22	1,000–1,500	^[12]^[13]
November 25	2:00 p.m.	at Brown	Providence, RI	L 5–16		^[14]^[15]
All times are in Eastern time

References

1. Staff (2013). . William C. "Bill" Wurtenburg Records by Year. College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on May 5, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
2. "Dartmouth 16, Exeter 5". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 1, 1899. p. 16. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
3. "Dartmouth 37, Bowdoin 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 8, 1899. p. 22. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
4. "Yale Defeats Dartmouth". The New York Times. October 15, 1899. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Williams 12, Dartmouth 10". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 22, 1899. p. 2. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
6. "West Point Beats Dartmouth". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. October 29, 1899. p. 17. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
7. "Wesleyan 11, Dartmouth 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 5, 1899. p. 21. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
8. "Amusing Incident". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 11, 1899. p. 8. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
9. "By Small Score". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 12, 1899. p. 1. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
10. "By Small Score (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 12, 1899. p. 5. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
11. "Harvard Wins In Mud". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. November 12, 1899. p. 18. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
12. "Columbia Wins, 22 To 0". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 19, 1899. p. 9. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
13. "Columbia 22, Dartmouth 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 19, 1899. p. 23. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
14. "Brown Vs Dartmouth". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 25, 1899. p. 5. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .
15. "Brown Defeats Dartmouth". The New York Times. New York, New York. November 26, 1899. p. 12. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com  .