1898 college football season

The 1898 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Harvard and Princeton as having been selected national champions.[1]

1898 college football season
Yale vs. Princeton
Champion(s)	Harvard Princeton
football seasons

Conference standings

Major conference standings

1898 Colorado Football Association standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Colorado Mines $ 2 – 0 – 0     8 – 0 – 0 Colorado College 1 – 1 – 0     5 – 1 – 1 Colorado 0 – 2 – 0     4 – 4 – 0 $ – Conference champion	1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Sewanee $ 3 – 0 – 0     4 – 0 – 0 Auburn 2 – 0 – 0     2 – 1 – 0 LSU 1 – 0 – 0     1 – 0 – 0 Georgia 3 – 1 – 0     4 – 2 – 0 Clemson 1 – 1 – 0     3 – 1 – 0 Tulane 1 – 1 – 0     1 – 1 – 0 Kentucky State# 0 – 0 – 0     7 – 0 – 0 Vanderbilt 1 – 2 – 0     1 – 5 – 0 Texas 0 – 1 – 0     5 – 1 – 0 Ole Miss 0 – 1 – 0     1 – 1 – 0 Nashville 0 – 2 – 0     0 – 2 – 0 Georgia Tech 0 – 3 – 0     0 – 3 – 0 Cumberland (TN) 0 – 0 – 0     0 – 0 – 0 SW Presbyterian 0 – 0 – 0     0 – 0 – 0 $ – Conference champion # – State champion	1898 Triangular Football League standings 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
1898 Western Conference football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Michigan $ 3 – 0 – 0     10 – 0 – 0 Chicago 3 – 1 – 0     14 – 2 – 1 Wisconsin 2 – 1 – 0     9 – 1 – 0 Illinois 1 – 1 – 0     4 – 5 – 0 Minnesota 1 – 2 – 0     4 – 5 – 0 Purdue 0 – 1 – 0     3 – 3 – 0 Northwestern 0 – 4 – 0     9 – 4 – 1 $ – Conference champion

Independents

1898 Eastern college football independents records 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 Syracuse   –       8 – 2 – 1 Yale   –       9 – 2 – 0 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 Pittsburgh College   –       5 – 4 – 1 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 Geneva   –       1 – 4 – 1 NYU   –       1 – 3 – 0 Rutgers   –       1 – 6 – 1 Tufts   –       1 – 9 – 0	1898 Midwestern college football independents records Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Washington University   –       6 – 0 – 0 Detroit College   –       5 – 0 – 0 Iowa State Normal   –       4 – 0 – 1 Washburn   –       4 – 0 – 1 Kansas   –       7 – 1 – 0 Cincinnati   –       5 – 1 – 3 Indiana   –       4 – 1 – 2 Nebraska   –       8 – 3 – 0 Drake   –       4 – 2 – 0 Lake Forest   –       2 – 1 – 0 Notre Dame   –       4 – 2 – 0 Butler   –       2 – 1 – 1 Heidelberg   –       4 – 3 – 0 Michigan Agricultural   –       4 – 3 – 0 Iowa State   –       3 – 2 – 0 Kansas State   –       1 – 1 – 2 DePauw   –       3 – 4 – 2 Iowa   –       3 – 4 – 2 Ohio   –       1 – 2 – 1 Ohio State   –       3 – 5 – 0 Baldwin–Wallace   –       2 – 4 – 0 Indiana State   –       1 – 2 – 0 North Dakota Agricultural   –       1 – 2 – 0 Wabash   –       2 – 5 – 1 Ohio Wesleyan   –       2 – 5 – 0 Haskell   –       2 – 7 – 0 Missouri   –       1 – 4 – 1 Wittenberg   –       1 – 5 – 1 Fairmount   –       0 – 1 – 0	1898 Southern college football independents records Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T North Carolina   –       9 – 0 – 0 Central   –       3 – 0 – 1 Oklahoma   –       2 – 0 – 0 Navy   –       7 – 1 – 0 West Virginia   –       6 – 1 – 0 Marshall   –       4 – 1 – 0 Georgetown   –       7 – 3 – 0 Texas A&M   –       4 – 2 – 0 VMI   –       4 – 2 – 0 Arkansas Industrial   –       2 – 1 – 0 Centre   –       2 – 1 – 2 VPI   –       3 – 2 – 0 Virginia   –       6 – 5 – 0 Richmond   –       3 – 3 – 1 Davidson   –       1 – 1 – 0 William & Mary   –       1 – 1 – 0 South Carolina   –       1 – 2 – 0 Delaware   –       2 – 5 – 2 Maryland   –       2 – 6 – 1 Add-Ran   –       1 – 3 – 1
1898 Far West college football independents records Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T California   –       8 – 0 – 2 Nevada State   –       4 – 1 – 0 USC   –       5 – 1 – 1 Oregon   –       3 – 1 – 0 New Mexico A&M   –       2 – 1 – 0 Utah   –       2 – 1 – 0 Stanford   –       5 – 3 – 1 Montana   –       3 – 2 – 0 Denver   –       6 – 4 – 1 Washington   –       1 – 1 – 0 Oregon Agricultural   –       1 – 2 – 1 Washington Agricultural   –       0 – 0 – 1 Utah Agricultural   –       0 – 1 – 0 Montana Agricultural   –       0 – 2 – 0 Wyoming   –       0 – 4 – 0

Minor conferences

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

See also

• 1898 College Football All-America Team

References

1. Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved 2009-10-16.