1898 Boston College football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–5–1
Head coach
CaptainBill Koen
Home stadiumSouth End Grounds
1898 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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 Boston College football team was an American football team that represented Boston College as an independent during the 1898 college football season. Led by second-year head coach John Dunlop, Boston College compiled a record of 2–5–1.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 9Exeter AcademyL 0–18
October 15Newton Athletic ClubL 0–5
October 22vs. TuftsL 5–6
October 24at Brown
L 0–6[1]
October 29at Campello Athletic ClubW 5–0
November 5at Holy Cross
T 0–0[2]
November 5vs. MITL 0–6
November 24Holy CrossW 11–0[3]

References

  1. "Scares Brown". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 25, 1898. p. 5. Retrieved March 12, 2022 via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  2. "Neither Scores: Boston College and Holy Cross Play a Tie". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. November 6, 1898. p. 21 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Boston College Victorious; Defeats Holy Cross 11 to 0 in the Presence of a Big Crowd". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. November 25, 1898. p. 21 via Newspapers.com.


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