1900 Lafayette football team

1900 Lafayette Leopards football
Conference Independent
1900 record 9–2
Head coach Samuel B. Newton (2nd year)
Home stadium March Field

The 1900 Lafayette football team represented Lafayette College in the 1900 college football season. Lafayette shut out seven opponents and finished with a 9–2 record in their second year under head coach Samuel B. Newton. Significant games included victories over Lehigh (34–0 and 18–0), and Cornell (17–0), and losses to Princeton (0–5) and Penn (5–12). The 1900 Lafayette team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 214 to 25.[1][2] Three Lafayette players received recognition on the 1900 College Football All-America Team. They are: center Walter E. Bachman (Caspar Whitney, 1st team); guard Trout (Whitney, 2nd team); and fullback David Dudley Cure (Walter Camp, 2nd team; deemed "ineligible" by Whitney).[3][4]

References

  1. "1900 Lafayette Leopards Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  2. "Lafayette Yearly Results (1900-1904)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
  3. "Walter Camp's 1900 All America Selections". Capital Times. 1930-11-23.
  4. Caspar Whitney (January 1901). "University Football: The Season of 1900 Reviewed" (PDF). Outing. pp. 483–484.
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