1899 Western Conference football season

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1899 Western Conference football season

Sport| Football
Number of teams| 7
Champion| Chicago
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1899 Western Conference football standings

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Team | W |  | 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

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Portrait of 1899 Purdue football team

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.

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

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### Results and team statistics

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Conf. Rank  | Team  | Head coach  | Overall record  | Conf. record  | PPG  | PAG

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1 | Chicago | Amos A. Stagg | 16–0–2 | 4–0 | 28.1 | 1.6
2 | Wisconsin | Philip King | 9–2 | 4–1 | 24.5 | 3.0
3 (tie) | Michigan | Gustave Ferbert | 7–2–1 | 1–1 | 17.6 | 4.3
3 (tie) | Northwestern | Charles Hollister | 7–6 | 2–2 | 11.1 | 13.6
5 | Purdue | Alpha Jamison | 4–4–1 | 1–2 | 11.1 | 13.6
6 (tie) | Minnesota | William C. Leary
Jack Harrison | 6–3–2 | 0-3 | 13.7 | 7.2
6 (tie) | Illinois | George Huff | 3–5–1 | 0–3 | 4.4 | 10.7

Key

PPG = Average of points scored per game[1]
PAG = Average of points allowed per game[1]

### Regular season

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Only 12 conference games were played during the 1899 Western Conference season. The results were as follows:

* October 14, 1899: Wisconsin defeated Northwestern, 38-0, at Madison, Wisconsin
* October 28, 1899: Michigan defeated Illinois, 5-0, at Champaign, Illinois
* November 4, 1899: Chicago defeated Purdue, 44-0, at Chicago[2]
* November 4, 1899: Northwestern defeated Minnesota, 11-0, at Minneapolis
* November 11, 1899: Chicago defeated Northwestern, 76-0, at Chicago
* November 11, 1899: Wisconsin defeated Illinois, 23-0, at Milwaukee
* November 18, 1899: Wisconsin defeated Minnesota, 19-0, at Minneapolis
* November 22, 1899: Purdue defeated Illinois, 5-0, at West Lafayette, Indiana[3]
* November 25, 1899: Chicago defeated Minnesota, 29-0, at Chicago
* November 25, 1899: Northwestern defeated Purdue, 29-0, at Evanston, Illinois[4]
* November 30, 1899: Wisconsin defeated Michigan, 17-5, at Chicago
* December 9, 1899: Chicago defeated Wisconsin, 17-0, at Madison, Wisconsin

Notable non-conference games during the 1899 season included the following:

* October 4, 1899: Chicago defeated Notre Dame, 23–6, at Chicago
* October 14, 1899: Illinois lost to Indiana, 5–0, at Champaign, Illinois
* October 18, 1899: Michigan defeated Notre Dame, 12–0, at Ann Arbor, Michigan
* October 21, 1899: Minnesota defeated Iowa State, 6–0, at Minneapolis
* October 7, 1899: Chicago tied with Iowa, 5–5, at Chicago
* October 14, 1899: Chicago defeated Cornell, 17–6, at Chicago
* October 21, 1899: Wisconsin lost to Yale, 6–0, at New Haven, Connecticut
* October 28, 1899: Chicago tied with Penn, 5–5, at Chicago
* October 28, 1899: Northwestern lost to Notre Dame, 12–0, at South Bend, Indiana
* November 4, 1899: Michigan defeated Virginia, 38–0, at Detroit
* November 11, 1899: Michigan lost to Penn, 11–10, at Philadelphia
* November 18, 1899: Northwestern defeated Indiana, 11–6, at Evanston, Illinois[5]
* November 18, 1899: Purdue tied Notre Dame, 10–10, at West Lafayette, Indiana
* November 25, 1899: Illinois defeated Saint Louis, 29–0, at St. Louis
* November 30, 1899: Chicago defeated Brown, 17–6, at Chicago
* November 30, 1899: Purdue lost to Indiana, 17–5, at West Lafayette, Indiana[6]
* November 30, 1899: Illinois lost to Iowa, 58–0, at Champaign, Illinois

### Bowl games

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No bowl games were played during the 1899 season.

## Awards and honors

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### All-Western players

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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:[7]

* Neil Snow, end, Michigan
* James M. Sheldon, end, Chicago
* Arthur Hale Curtis, tackle, Wisconsin
* Jonathan E. Webb, tackle, Chicago
* Richard France, guard, Michigan
* C. Rogers, guard, Wisconsin
* Roy Chamberlain, center, Wisconsin
* Walter S. Kennedy, quarterback, Chicago
* Ralph C. Hamill, halfback, Chicago
* John McLean, halfback, Michigan
* Pat O'Dea, fullback, Wisconsin

### All-Americans

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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 Philadelphia 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.[8]

## References

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1. ^ a b "1899 Western Conference Year Summary". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 26, 2016.
2. ^ "Maroons Score at Will". Chicago Tribune. November 5, 1899. p. 17 - via Newspapers.com.
3. ^ "Purdue Wins, 5 to 0". The Indianapolis Journal. November 23, 1899. p. 5 - via Newspapers.com.
4. ^ "Purple Defeats Purdue: Northwestern Plays Season's Last Game in Fine Form". Chicago Tribune. November 26, 1899. p. 19 - via Newspapers.com.
5. ^ "Notre Dame, 10; Purdue, 10". The Indianapolis Journal. November 19, 1899. p. 4 - via Newspapers.com.
6. ^ "Purdue Beaten by I. U." The Indianapolis News. December 1, 1899. p. 12 - via Newspapers.com.
7. ^ "All-Western, All-Eastern, All-American". The Northwestern. December 14, 1899. p. 11.
8. ^ "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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