1898 Buffalo football team

The 1898 Buffalo football team represented the University at Buffalo as an independent during the 1898 college football season. The team compiled an 8–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 214 to 42.[1] The team had no coach and played its home games at Olympic Park in Buffalo, New York.

1898 Buffalo football
ConferenceIndependent
1898 record8–1
Head coach
  • None
Home stadiumOlympic Park
1898 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW 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
Bucknell      4 4 3
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

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 1at Towanda A.A.Towanda, PAW 29–0
October 8Rensselaer Tech
  • Olympic Park
  • Buffalo, NY
W 12–5[2]
October 15at Cornell
L 0–27[3]
October 22at Company C, National GuardBradford, PAW 23–0[4]
October 29Case
  • Olympic Park
  • Buffalo, NY
W 29–0[5]
November 8Colgate
  • Olympic Park
  • Buffalo, NY
W 23–0[6][7]
November 12Company C, National Guard
  • Olympic Park
  • Buffalo, NY
W 28–0[8]
November 19Cornell B team
  • Olympic Park
  • Buffalo, NY
W 34–0[9]
November 24Bucknell
  • Olympic Park
  • Buffalo, NY
W 36–5[10]

References

  1. "Buffalo Yearly Results (1895-1899)". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved June 29, 2020.
  2. "'Varsity's Opening: First Home Game Resulted in a Victory". The Illustrated Buffalo Express. October 9, 1898. p. 19 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Could Not Score: Cornell Too Much for Buffalo 'Varsity". The Illustrated Buffalo Express. October 16, 1898. p. 21 via Newspapers.com.
  4. "'Varsity Did Well: Defeated Bradford by a Good Score". The Illustrated Buffalo Express. October 23, 1898. p. 21 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Great Is Cursons: He Was the Whole Thing in Yesterday's Game; Made a Great Run". Buffalo Sunday Morning Times. October 30, 1898. p. 12 via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Madisonensis: Buffalo 23, Colgate 0". Archived from the original on 2020-07-01. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
  7. "Mighty Cursons". The Buffalo Commercial. November 9, 1898. p. 8 via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Bradford Beaten Again By University of Buffalo". The Buffalo Courier. November 13, 1898. p. 22 via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Varsity Won Again: Cornell's Scrub Team Was Badly Beaten". The Buffalo Courier. November 20, 1898. p. 22 via Newspapers.com.
  10. "In a Walk Buffalo 'Varsity Is Easily the Peer of the Second Division; Bucknell Wasn't in It". Buffalo Evening Times. November 25, 1898 via Newspapers.com.
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