1900 Brown Bears football team

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1900 Brown Bears football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–3–1
Head coach
CaptainL. Washburn
Home stadiumAndrews Field
Seasons
← 1899
1901 →
1900 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     12 0 0
Penn     12 1 0
Harvard     10 1 0
Cornell     10 2 0
Geneva     5 1 1
Lafayette     9 2 0
Syracuse     7 2 1
Princeton     8 3 0
Drexel     5 2 0
Fordham     3 1 1
Army     7 3 1
Brown     7 3 1
Columbia     7 3 1
Villanova     5 2 2
Washington & Jefferson     6 3 1
Swarthmore     6 3 2
Holy Cross     5 3 1
Carlisle     6 4 1
Buffalo     3 2 2
Dickinson     5 4 0
Western Univ. of Penn     5 4 0
Bucknell     4 4 1
Pittsburgh College     3 3 1
Rutgers     4 4 0
Vermont     4 4 1
Lehigh     5 6 0
Frankin & Marshall     4 5 0
Temple     3 4 1
Penn State     4 6 1
Amherst     4 7 1
Dartmouth     2 4 2
NYU     3 6 1
Tufts     3 6 1
Wesleyan     3 6 1
New Hampshire     1 5 1
Colgate     2 8 0
CCNY     0 1 0

The 1900 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University as an independent during the 1900 college football season.[1] Led by third-year head coach Edward N. Robinson, Brown compiled a record of 7–3–1. The team's captain was L. Washburn.

Schedule[edit]

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 29Colby
W 27–0[2]
October 6Holy Cross
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
W 18–0[3]
October 10MIT
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
W 22–0[4]
October 13at PennL 0–12[5]
October 20at ChicagoW 11–6[6][7]
October 273:10 p.m.Princeton
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
L 5–175,000[8]
November 3Needham Athletic Club
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
W 12–5[9]
November 6Tufts
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
W 26–5[10]
November 10at HarvardL 6–118,000[11]
November 17at Dartmouth
W 12–5[12]
November 24Syracuse
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
T 6–6[13]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "1900 Brown Bears Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
  2. ^ "Brown 27 - Colby 0". Sunday Leader. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. September 30, 1900. p. 1. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  3. ^ "Brown 18, Holy Cross 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 7, 1900. p. 2. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "Brown, 22, M. I. T., 0". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. October 11, 1900. p. 4. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "Pennsy Keeps Brown On The Defensive During Both Halves, Winning By 12 To 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 14, 1900. p. 14. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ^ "Wretched Play By The Maroons". The Chicago Sunday Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. October 21, 1900. p. 17. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "Wretched Play By The Maroons (continued)". The Chicago Sunday Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. October 21, 1900. p. 18. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  8. ^ "Princeton, 17; Brown, 5". New York Tribune. October 28, 1900. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Brown 12, Needham A. C. 5". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 4, 1900. p. 23. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  10. ^ "Brown 26, Tufts 5". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 7, 1900. p. 9. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  11. ^ "Harvard Beats Brown 11 to 6, But Barely Escapes Disaster". Boston Post. November 11, 1900. p. 9 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.
  12. ^ "Brown 12, Dartmouth 5". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 18, 1900. p. 2. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  13. ^ "Brown 6, Syracuse 6". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 25, 1900. p. 23. Retrieved March 13, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.