1900 Lafayette football team

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]

1900 Lafayette football
Conference	Independent
1900 record	9–2
Head coach	Samuel B. Newton (2nd season)
Captain	John Chalmers
Home stadium	March Field

1900 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					12	–	0	–	0
Penn			–					12	–	1	–	0
Harvard			–					10	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					10	–	2	–	0
Geneva			–					5	–	1	–	1
Lafayette			–					9	–	2	–	0
Syracuse			–					7	–	2	–	1
Princeton			–					8	–	3	–	0
Fordham			–					3	–	1	–	1
Army			–					7	–	3	–	1
Brown			–					7	–	3	–	1
Columbia			–					7	–	3	–	1
Villanova			–					5	–	2	–	2
Carlisle			–					6	–	4	–	1
Dickinson			–					5	–	4	–	0
Western Univ. of Penn			–					5	–	4	–	0
Bucknell			–					4	–	4	–	1
Rutgers			–					4	–	4	–	0
Lehigh			–					5	–	6	–	0
Frankin & Marshall			–					4	–	5	–	0
Temple			–					3	–	4	–	1
Pittsburgh College			–					2	–	3	–	1
Penn State			–					4	–	6	–	1
Amherst			–					4	–	7	–	1
Dartmouth			–					2	–	4	–	2
NYU			–					3	–	6	–	1
Tufts			–					3	–	6	–	1
Wesleyan			–					3	–	6	–	1
New Hampshire			–					1	–	5	–	1
Colgate			–					2	–	8	–	0
CCNY			–					0	–	1	–	0

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]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 3	Ursinus	March Field Easton, PA	W 34–0
October 6	Susquehanna	March Field Easton, PA	W 35–0
October 10	Manhattan	March Field Easton, PA	W 11–0
October 13	Swarthmore	March Field Easton, PA	W 34–2
October 20	Princeton	March Field Easton, PA	L 0–5
October 27	Newark A.C.	March Field Easton, PA	W 16–0
November 3	at Lehigh	Bethlehem, PA (rivalry)	W 34–0
November 10	at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia	L 5–12
November 17	Cornell	March Field Easton, PA	W 17–0
November 24	Lehigh	March Field Easton, PA	W 18–0
November 29	Dickinson	March Field Easton, PA	W 10–6

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.