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.

1900 Lafayette football
ConferenceIndependent
Record9–2
Head coach
  • Samuel B. Newton (2nd season)
CaptainJohn Chalmers
Home stadiumMarch Field
1900 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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
Drexel    5 2 0
Fordham    3 1 1
Army    7 3 1
Brown    7 3 1
Columbia    7 3 1
Villanova    5 2 2
Washington & Jefferson    6 3 1
Swarthmore    6 3 2
Holy Cross    5 3 1
Carlisle    6 4 1
Buffalo    3 2 2
Dickinson    5 4 0
Western Univ. of Penn    5 4 0
Bucknell    4 4 1
Pittsburgh College    3 3 1
Rutgers    4 4 0
Vermont    4 4 1
Lehigh    5 6 0
Frankin & Marshall    4 5 0
Temple    3 4 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).

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