1908 Brown Bears football team

1908 Brown Bears football
ConferenceIndependent
Record5–3–1
Head coach
Home stadiumAndrews Field
1908 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Penn   –   11 – 0 – 1
Harvard   –   9 – 0 – 1
Cornell   –   7 – 1 – 1
Fordham   –   5 – 1 – 0
Yale   –   7 – 1 – 1
Dartmouth   –   6 – 1 – 1
Carlisle   –   10 – 2 – 1
Washington & Jefferson   –   10 – 2 – 1
Army   –   6 – 1 – 2
Pittsburgh   –   8 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   6 – 2 – 2
Princeton   –   5 – 2 – 3
Syracuse   –   6 – 3 – 1
Brown   –   5 – 3 – 1
Temple   –   3 – 2 – 1
Colgate   –   4 – 3 – 0
Lehigh   –   4 – 3 – 0
Dickinson   –   5 – 4 – 0
Amherst   –   3 – 3 – 2
Holy Cross   –   4 – 4 – 0
Penn State   –   5 – 5 – 0
Vermont   –   3 – 3 – 3
Wesleyan   –   3 – 4 – 2
Springfield Training School   –   3 – 4 – 1
NYU   –   2 – 3 – 2
Franklin & Marshall   –   4 – 6 – 1
Bucknell   –   3 – 5 – 2
Rutgers   –   3 – 5 – 1
Boston College   –   2 – 4 – 2
Carnegie Tech   –   3 – 7 – 0
Geneva   –   1 – 6 – 2
Tufts   –   1 – 6 – 1
Villanova   –   1 – 6 – 0
New Hampshire   –   1 – 7 – 0
Drexel   –   0 – 7 – 0

The 1908 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University as an independent during the 1908 college football season. Led by second-year head coach J. A. Gammons, Brown compiled a record of 5–3–1.[1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 19New Hampshire
W 34–0[2]
September 26Bates
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
W 35–4
October 3Colgate
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
W 6–0[3]
October 10Bowdoin
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
W 12–0
October 17at Penn
L 0–1210,000[4]
October 24Lafayette
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
L 6–8
October 31at Harvard
L 2–6
November 7at Yale
T 10–10
November 14Vermont
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
W 12–0[5]

References

  1. ^ "1908 Brown Bears Schedule and Results | College Football at Sports-Reference.com". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
  2. ^ "The Brown Game, September 26". The New Hampshire College Monthly. Vol. 16, no. 2. November 1908. p. 55. Retrieved November 25, 2024 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ^ "Brown 6, Colgate 0: Sixty – yards End Run by Capt Mayhew in First Minute of Play Results in Only Score". The Boston Sunday Globe. October 4, 1908. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Penn Has an Easy Victory: Brown Is Beaten by Penn 12 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 18, 1908. p. 10b – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Brown 12, Vermont 0". The New York Times. November 15, 1908. Retrieved June 19, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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