1899 Western Conference football season

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.

1899 Western Conference football season
SportFootball
Number of teams7
ChampionChicago
1899 Western Conference football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Chicago $ 4 –0 –0  16 –0 –2
Wisconsin 4 –1 –0  9 –2 –0
Northwestern 2 –2 –0  7 –6 –0
Michigan 1 –1 –0  8 –2 –0
Purdue 1 –2 –0  4 –4 –1
Minnesota 0 –3 –0  6 –3 –2
Illinois 0 –3 –0  3 –5 –1
  • $ – Conference champion

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
Conf. Rank Team Head coach Overall record Conf. record PPG PAG
1ChicagoAmos A. Stagg16–0–24–028.11.6
2WisconsinPhilip King9–24–124.53.0
3 (tie)MichiganGustave Ferbert7–2–11–117.64.3
3 (tie)NorthwesternCharles Hollister7–62–211.113.6
5PurdueAlpha Jamison4–4–11–211.113.6
6 (tie)MinnesotaWilliam C. Leary
Jack Harrison		6–3–20-313.77.2
6 (tie)IllinoisGeorge Huff3–5–10–34.410.7

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:

  1. October 14, 1899: Wisconsin defeated Northwestern, 38-0
  2. October 28, 1899: Michigan defeated Illinois, 5-0
  3. November 4, 1899: Chicago defeated Purdue, 44-0
  4. November 4, 1899: Northwestern defeated Minnesota, 11-0
  5. November 11, 1899: Chicago defeated Northwestern, 76-0
  6. November 11, 1899: Wisconsin defeated Illinois, 23-0
  7. November 18, 1899: Wisconsin defeated Minnesota, 19-0
  8. November 22, 1899: Purdue defeated Illinois, 5-0
  9. November 25, 1899: Chicago defeated Minnesota, 29-0
  10. November 25, 1899: Northwestern defeated Purdue, 29-0
  11. November 30, 1899: Wisconsin defeated Michigan, 17-5
  12. December 9, 1899: Chicago defeated Wisconsin, 17-0

Bowl games

No Western Conference teams appeared in any bowl games during the 1899 season.

Awards and honors

All-Western players
For the complete All-Western selections, see 1899 All-Western college football team.

The Northwestern named a 1899 All-Western college football team that consisted of the following players:[2]

All-Americans
For the complete All-America selections, see 1899 College Football All-America Team.

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.[3]

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References
  1. "1899 Western Conference Year Summary". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 26, 2016.
  2. "All-Western, All-Eastern, All-American". The Northwestern. December 14, 1899. p. 11.
  3. "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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