1899 college football season

1899 college football season
Total # of teams	41
Number of bowls	0
Champions	Harvard Crimson Princeton Tigers
College football seasons « 1898 1900 »

The 1899 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Harvard and Princeton as having been selected national champions.

Conference and program changes

School	1898 Conference	1899 Conference
Arizona Varsity	Program Established	Independent
Baylor football	Program Established	Independent
Davidson Wildcats	Independent	SIAA
Furman Hornets	Independent	SIAA

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1899 Western Conference football standings Conf     Overall 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 $ – Conference champion

1899 SIAA football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Sewanee $ 11 – 0 – 0     12 – 0 – 0 Vanderbilt 4 – 0 – 0     7 – 2 – 0 Alabama 1 – 0 – 0     3 – 1 – 0 Nashville 3 – 1 – 0     3 – 1 – 0 North Carolina 2 – 1 – 0     7 – 3 – 0 Tennessee 2 – 1 – 0     6 – 2 – 0 Auburn 2 – 1 – 1     3 – 1 – 1 Texas 3 – 2 – 0     6 – 2 – 0 Clemson 2 – 2 – 0     4 – 2 – 0 Georgia 2 – 3 – 1     2 – 3 – 1 Ole Miss 2 – 3 – 0     3 – 4 – 0 LSU 1 – 3 – 0     1 – 4 – 0 Kentucky State 0 – 1 – 0     5 – 2 – 2 SW Presbyterian 0 – 1 – 0     1 – 1 – 0 Davidson 0 – 2 – 0     1 – 3 – 1 Cumberland 0 – 3 – 0     0 – 3 – 0 Georgia Tech 0 – 5 – 0     0 – 5 – 0 Tulane 0 – 5 – 0     0 – 6 – 1 $ – Conference champion

See also

• 1899 College Football All-America Team