1898 college football season

1898 college football season
Total # of teams	31[1]
Number of bowls	0
Champions	Harvard Crimson Princeton Tigers
College football seasons « 1897 1899 »

The 1898 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.^[2]

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1898 CFA football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Colorado 0 – 2 – 0     4 – 4 – 0 $ – Conference champion	1898 college football independents records Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T California   –       8 – 0 – 2 USC   –       5 – 1 – 1 Oregon   –       3 – 1 – 0 Notre Dame   –       4 – 2 – 0 Stanford   –       5 – 3 – 1 Montana   –       3 – 2 – 0 Utah   –       2 – 1 – 0 Washington   –       1 – 1 – 0 Washington Agricultural   –       0 – 0 – 1 Oregon Agricultural   –       1 – 2 – 1	1898 SIAA football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T North Carolina + 3 – 0 – 0     9 – 0 – 0 Sewanee + 3 – 0 – 0     4 – 0 – 0 LSU 1 – 0 – 0     1 – 0 – 0 Auburn 2 – 1 – 0     2 – 1 – 0 Georgia 3 – 2 – 0     4 – 2 – 0 Clemson 1 – 1 – 0     3 – 1 – 0 Tulane 1 – 1 – 0     1 – 1 – 0 Vanderbilt 1 – 2 – 0     1 – 5 – 0 Texas 0 – 1 – 0     5 – 1 – 0 VPI 0 – 1 – 0     3 – 2 – 0 Ole Miss 0 – 1 – 0     1 – 1 – 0 Nashville 0 – 2 – 0     0 – 2 – 0 Georgia Tech 0 – 3 – 0     0 – 3 – 0 Kentucky State 0 – 0 – 0     7 – 0 – 0 + – Conference co-champions
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	1898 Western Conference football standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Michigan $ 3 – 0 – 0     10 – 0 – 0 Chicago 3 – 1 – 0     14 – 2 – 1 Wisconsin 2 – 1 – 0     9 – 1 – 0 Illinois 1 – 1 – 0     4 – 5 – 0 Minnesota 1 – 2 – 0     4 – 5 – 0 Purdue 0 – 1 – 0     3 – 3 – 0 Northwestern 0 – 4 – 0     9 – 4 – 1 $ – Conference champion

Minor conferences

Conference	Champion(s)	Record
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association	Kalamazoo	5–0–0

See also

• 1898 College Football All-America Team

References

1. http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cf1898.htm
2. Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved 2009-10-16.