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1898 Dartmouth football team

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1898 Dartmouth football
TFL champion
ConferenceTriangular Football League
Record5–6 (2–0 TFL)
Head coach
CaptainFred Crolius
Home stadiumAlumni Oval
Seasons
← 1897
1899 →
1898 Triangular Football League standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Dartmouth $ 2 0 0 5 6 0
Amherst 1 1 0 4 5 1
Williams 0 2 0 3 8 0
  • $ – Conference champion

The 1898 Dartmouth football team represented Dartmouth College in the 1898 college football season.[1]

Despite finishing with a losing record, the 1898 Dartmouth team was regarded by some eastern sportswriters, most notably Outing, to be the best fielded by head coach William Wurtenburg.[2] Against an expanded schedule, the squad went only 5–6, but managed to outscore their opponents by a total of 205–137. The year began with a defeat of regular opponent Phillips Exeter Academy, and was followed by a shutout loss to Harvard. After two consecutive wins over nearby schools, Dartmouth lost to former Triangular Football League opponent Wesleyan, 23–5.[3] The following two contests were against Triangular Football League opponents Amherst and Williams. The latter game was regarded as Dartmouth's most significant game of the season by eastern sportswriters, since Williams had hired two new coaches and expanded practices in order to win the conference in 1898. Dartmouth outdid Williams, however, and defeated them 10–6 to claim a sixth straight conference championship.[2] The season ended on a sour note with four straight losses on the road, two of them coming against Midwestern teams.[3]

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1Phillips Exeter Academy*Hanover, NHW 23–5[4]
October 83:00 p.m.at Harvard*L 0–21[5][6]
October 15Bowdoin*Hanover, NHW 35–6[7]
October 22at Vermont*
W 45–6[8]
October 29Wesleyan*
  • Alumni Oval
  • Hanover, NH
L 5–23700[9]
November 5at AmherstW 64–61,000[10]
November 12at WilliamsWilliamstown, MAW 10–61,000[11]
November 21at Brown*
L 0–122,000[12][13]
November 24at Chicago Athletic Association*
L 5–18[14]
November 26at Cincinnati*L 12–171,500[15][16]
Unknownat Carlisle*Carlisle, PAL 6–17
  • *Non-conference game

References

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  1. ^ 1898 Dartmouth College football scores and results Archived December 8, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 4, 2013.
  2. ^ a b Camp, Walter (November 1898). "Football of 1898: Prospects of the Season". Outing, an Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Recreation. XXXIII (2). Sampson Low, Marston & Company: 189–196. OCLC 228719114.
  3. ^ a b Staff (2013). "William Wurtenburg coaching record–1898". William C. "Bill" Wurtenburg Records by Year. College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on May 5, 2014. Retrieved December 6, 2014.
  4. ^ "Exeter Scores Five Points". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 2, 1898. p. 2. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "Day of Football: Harvard vs Dartmouth on Soldiers Field". The Boston Globe. October 8, 1898. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Hard, Fast Game". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 9, 1898. p. 2. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ^ "Dartmouth, 35; Bowdoin, 6". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. October 16, 1898. p. 7. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  8. ^ "Dartmouth 45, Uni. of VT. 6". The Boston Globe. October 23, 1898. Retrieved September 6, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Wesleyan 23, Dartmouth 5". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 30, 1898. p. 2. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  10. ^ "Dartmouth, 64; Amherst, 6". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. October 16, 1898. p. 7. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  11. ^ "Tricollege Champions". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 13, 1898. p. 2. Retrieved March 23, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  12. ^ "Brown, 12; Dartmouth, 0". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. November 22, 1898. p. 4. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  13. ^ "Brown's Victory". The Fall River Daily Herald. Fall River, Massachusetts. November 22, 1898. p. 6. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  14. ^ "C. A. A. Defeats Dartmouth Boys". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. November 25, 1898. p. 4. Retrieved September 6, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  15. ^ "Cincinnati, 17; Dartmouth, 12". Brooklyn Citizen. Brooklyn, New York. November 27, 1898. p. 4. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  16. ^ "Cincinnati, 17; Dartmouth, 12". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. November 27, 1898. p. 14. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.