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1899 Western Conference football season
1899 Western Conference football season
Sport	Football
Number of teams	7
Champion	Chicago
Football seasons
	← 1898 1900 →

1899 Western Conference football standings
v t e	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

The 1899 Western Conference football season was the fourth season of college football played by the member schools of the Western Conference (later known as the Big Ten Conference) and was a part of the 1899 college football season.

The 1899 Chicago Maroons football team, under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, won the conference championship with a 16–0–2 overall record (4–0 against conference opponents), led the conference in both scoring offense (28.1 points per game) and scoring defense (1.6 points per game), shut out 13 of 18 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 505 to 28.

Season overview

Results and team statistics

Conf. Rank	Team	Head coach	Overall record	Conf. record	PPG	PAG
1	Chicago	Amos A. Stagg	16–0–2	4–0	28.1	1.6
2	Wisconsin	Philip King	9–2	4–1	24.5	3.0
3 (tie)	Michigan	Gustave Ferbert	7–2–1	1–1	17.6	4.3
3 (tie)	Northwestern	Charles Hollister	7–6	2–2	11.1	13.6
5	Purdue	Alpha Jamison	4–4–1	1–2	11.1	13.6
6 (tie)	Minnesota	William C. Leary Jack Harrison	6–3–2	0-3	13.7	7.2
6 (tie)	Illinois	George Huff	3–5–1	0–3	4.4	10.7

Key

PPG = Average of points scored per game^[1]
PAG = Average of points allowed per game^[1]

Regular season

Only 12 conference games were played during the 1899 Western Conference season. The results were as follows:

October 14, 1899: Wisconsin defeated Northwestern, 38-0, at Madison, Wisconsin
October 28, 1899: Michigan defeated Illinois, 5-0, at Champaign, Illinois
November 4, 1899: Chicago defeated Purdue, 44-0, at Chicago^[2]
November 4, 1899: Northwestern defeated Minnesota, 11-0, at Minneapolis
November 11, 1899: Chicago defeated Northwestern, 76-0, at Chicago
November 11, 1899: Wisconsin defeated Illinois, 23-0, at Milwaukee
November 18, 1899: Wisconsin defeated Minnesota, 19-0, at Minneapolis
November 22, 1899: Purdue defeated Illinois, 5-0, at West Lafayette, Indiana^[3]
November 25, 1899: Chicago defeated Minnesota, 29-0, at Chicago
November 25, 1899: Northwestern defeated Purdue, 29-0, at Evanston, Illinois^[4]
November 30, 1899: Wisconsin defeated Michigan, 17-5, at Chicago
December 9, 1899: Chicago defeated Wisconsin, 17-0, at Madison, Wisconsin

Notable non-conference games during the 1899 season included the following:

October 4, 1899: Chicago defeated Notre Dame, 23–6, at Chicago
October 14, 1899: Illinois lost to Indiana, 5–0, at Champaign, Illinois
October 18, 1899: Michigan defeated Notre Dame, 12–0, at Ann Arbor, Michigan
October 21, 1899: Minnesota defeated Iowa State, 6–0, at Minneapolis
October 7, 1899: Chicago tied with Iowa, 5–5, at Chicago
October 14, 1899: Chicago defeated Cornell, 17–6, at Chicago
October 21, 1899: Wisconsin lost to Yale, 6–0, at New Haven, Connecticut
October 28, 1899: Chicago tied with Penn, 5–5, at Chicago
October 28, 1899: Northwestern lost to Notre Dame, 12–0, at South Bend, Indiana
November 4, 1899: Michigan defeated Virginia, 38–0, at Detroit
November 11, 1899: Michigan lost to Penn, 11–10, at Philadelphia
November 18, 1899: Northwestern defeated Indiana, 11–6, at Evanston, Illinois^[5]
November 18, 1899: Purdue tied Notre Dame, 10–10, at West Lafayette, Indiana
November 25, 1899: Illinois defeated Saint Louis, 29–0, at St. Louis
November 30, 1899: Chicago defeated Brown, 17–6, at Chicago
November 30, 1899: Purdue lost to Indiana, 17–5, at West Lafayette, Indiana^[6]
November 30, 1899: Illinois lost to Iowa, 58–0, at Champaign, Illinois

Bowl games

No bowl games were played during the 1899 season.

Awards and honors

All-Western players

The Northwestern named a 1899 All-Western college football team that consisted of the following players:^[7]

Neil Snow, end, Michigan
James M. Sheldon, end, Chicago
Arthur Hale Curtis, tackle, Wisconsin
Jonathan E. Webb, tackle, Chicago
Richard France, guard, Michigan
C. Rogers, guard, Wisconsin
Roy Chamberlain, center, Wisconsin
Walter S. Kennedy, quarterback, Chicago
Ralph C. Hamill, halfback, Chicago
John McLean, halfback, Michigan
Pat O'Dea, fullback, Wisconsin

All-Americans

No Western Conference players were selected as first-team players on the 1899 College Football All-America Teams selected by Walter Camp and Caspar Whitney. However, the Philadelphia Inquirer picked an All-American that named four Western Conference players to the first team: end Neil Snow of Michigan; tackle Richard France of Michigan; quarterback Walter S. Kennedy of Chicago; and halfback John McLean of Michigan.^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b "1899 Western Conference Year Summary". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved December 26, 2016.
^ "Maroons Score at Will". Chicago Tribune. November 5, 1899. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Purdue Wins, 5 to 0". The Indianapolis Journal. November 23, 1899. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Purple Defeats Purdue: Northwestern Plays Season's Last Game in Fine Form". Chicago Tribune. November 26, 1899. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Notre Dame, 10; Purdue, 10". The Indianapolis Journal. November 19, 1899. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Purdue Beaten by I. U." The Indianapolis News. December 1, 1899. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "All-Western, All-Eastern, All-American". The Northwestern. December 14, 1899. p. 11.
^ "An All-American Football Team In Fact, Three of Them, and All Picked upon Different Lines". The Philadelphia Inquirer. December 11, 1899.