1898 Brown Bears football team

1898 Brown Bears football
Conference	Independent
Record	6–4
Head coach	Edward N. Robinson (1st season)
Captain	Fred W. Murphy
Home stadium	Lincoln Field, Adelaide Park
Seasons ← 1897 1899 →

1898 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Harvard		–		11	–	0	–	0
Drexel		–		7	–	0	–	0
Princeton		–		11	–	0	–	1
Penn		–		12	–	1	–	0
Buffalo		–		8	–	1	–	0
Cornell		–		10	–	2	–	0
Swarthmore		–		9	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		9	–	2	–	0
Yale		–		9	–	2	–	0
Dickinson		–		8	–	2	–	0
Syracuse		–		8	–	2	–	1
Wesleyan		–		7	–	3	–	0
Western Penn.		–		5	–	2	–	1
Brown		–		6	–	4	–	0
Carlisle		–		6	–	4	–	0
Penn State		–		6	–	4	–	0
Pittsburgh College		–		6	–	4	–	1
Army		–		3	–	2	–	1
Vermont		–		3	–	2	–	1
Holy Cross		–		5	–	4	–	1
Bucknell		–		4	–	4	–	3
Fordham		–		1	–	1	–	2
Frankin & Marshall		–		4	–	4	–	2
New Hampshire		–		4	–	4	–	0
Amherst		–		4	–	5	–	1
Villanova		–		2	–	4	–	1
Lehigh		–		3	–	6	–	1
Boston College		–		2	–	5	–	1
Colgate		–		2	–	5	–	1
Temple		–		2	–	5	–	0
Lafayette		–		3	–	8	–	0
NYU		–		1	–	3	–	0
Rutgers		–		1	–	6	–	1
Tufts		–		1	–	9	–	0
Geneva		–		0	–	6	–	1

The 1898 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In their first year under head coach Edward N. Robinson, the team compiled a 6–4 record and outscored opponents by a total of 135 to 96.^[1] Fred W. Murphy was the team captain.

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Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 1		Holy Cross	Lincoln Field Providence, RI	W 19–0		^[2]^[3]
October 5		Tufts	Lincoln Field Providence, RI	W 29–6		^[4]^[5]
October 8		at Penn	Franklin Field Philadelphia, PA	L 0–18	5,000	^[6]
October 16		Colby	Lincoln Field Providence, RI	W 41–5		^[7]
October 19		at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 6–22		^[8]
October 24		Boston College	Lincoln Field Providence, RI	W 6–0		^[9]
October 29		Princeton	Adelaide Park Providence, RI	L 0–23	1,500–2,500	^[10]^[11]^[12]
November 5		Newtowne Athletic Association	Providence, RI	W 16–5		^[13]
November 12	3:00 p.m.	at Harvard	Soldiers' Field Boston, MA	L 6–17		^[14]^[15]
November 21		Dartmouth	Adelaide Park Providence, RI	W 12–0	2,000	^[16]^[17]
All times are in Eastern time

References

^ "1898 Brown Bears Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved September 19, 2021.
^ "Brown Begins Well". The Times. Philadelphia, Pa. October 2, 1898. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Brown 19, Holy Cross 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 2, 1898. p. 2. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Brown 29, Tufts 6". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 6, 1898. p. 5. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Untitled". The Fall River Daily Herald. Fall River, Massachusetts. October 6, 1898. p. 6. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Penn, 18—Brown, 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 9, 1898. p. 14. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Brown 41, Colby 5". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 16, 1898. p. 16. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Yale Defeats Brown". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. October 20, 1898. p. 2. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Scares Brown". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 25, 1898. p. 5. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Princeton, 23; Brown, 0". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. October 30, 1898. p. 6. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Princeton Defeats Brown". New-York Tribune. New York, New York. October 30, 1898. p. 8. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Princeton, 23; Brown, 0". The Sun. New York, New York. October 30, 1898. p. 8. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Newtowne A. A. Scored". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 6, 1898. p. 4. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Game At 3 O'clock Today". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 12, 1898. p. 5. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Harvard Weak". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 13, 1898. p. 24. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Brown, 12; Dartmouth, 0". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. November 22, 1898. p. 4. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Brown's Victory". The Fall River Daily Herald. Fall River, Massachusetts. November 22, 1898. p. 6. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .

v t e Brown Bears football
Venues	Andrews Field (1899–1924) Richard Gouse Field at Brown Stadium (1925–present)
Bowls & rivalries	1916 Rose Bowl Rhode Island
Culture & lore	Band Bruno "Ever True To Brown"
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
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