1899 Dartmouth football team

The 1899 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College in 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; it was Dartmouth's first Triangular Football League (TFL) loss since 1892. Following another close loss, Army, Dartmouth was defeated by Wesleyan, their other conference opponent, to finish winless in TFL play.[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
ConferenceTriangular Football League
1899 record2–7 (0–2 TFL)
Head coach
CaptainJoseph Wentworth
1899 Triangular Football League standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Wesleyan $ 2 –0 –0  7 –2 –0
Dartmouth 0 –2 –0  2 –7 –0
  • $ – Conference champion

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 30Philips Exeter Academy*Hanover, NHW 16–5
October 7Bowdoin*Hanover, NHW 37–0
October 14vs. Yale*
L 0–16[2]
October 21WilliamsHanover, NHL 10–12
October 28at Army*
L 2–6
November 4at WesleyanMiddletown, CTL 0–11
November 11at Harvard*
L 0–21
November 18at Columbia*
L 0–22
November 25at Brown*Providence, RIL 5–16
  • *Non-conference game

References
  1. Staff (2013). "William Wurtenburg coaching record–1899". William C. "Bill" Wurtenburg Records by Year. College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on May 5, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2014.
  2. "Yale Defeats Dartmouth". The New York Times. October 15, 1899. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
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