1898 Iowa State Normals football team

The 1898 Iowa State Normals football team represented Iowa State Normal School (later renamed University of Northern Iowa) as an independent during the 1898 college football season. In its first and only season under head coach Kalita E. Leighton, the team compiled a 4–0–1 record, including an 11–5 victory over the Iowa Hawkeyes, and outscored all opponents by a total of 92 to 5.[1]

1898 Iowa State Normals football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–0–1
Head coach
Seasons
← 1897
1899 →
1898 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Washington University     6 0 0
Detroit College     5 0 0
Carthage     3 0 0
Iowa State Normal     4 0 1
Washburn     4 0 1
Kansas     7 1 0
Cincinnati     5 1 3
Indiana     4 1 2
Nebraska     8 3 0
Drake     4 2 0
Lake Forest     2 1 0
Notre Dame     4 2 0
Western Reserve     5 3 0
Butler     2 1 1
Heidelberg     4 3 0
Michigan Agricultural     4 3 0
Iowa State     3 2 0
Kansas State     1 1 2
Miami (OH)     1 1 0
South Dakota Agricultural     1 1 1
DePauw     3 4 2
Iowa     3 4 2
Ohio     1 2 1
Ohio State     3 5 0
Baldwin–Wallace     2 4 0
Central Michigan     1 2 0
Indiana State Normal     1 2 0
North Dakota Agricultural     1 2 0
Wabash     2 5 1
Ohio Wesleyan     2 5 0
Haskell     2 7 0
Missouri     1 4 1
Wittenberg     1 5 1
Fairmount     0 1 0

Schedule edit

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
October 1East Waterloo HSCedar Rapids, IAW 23–0[2]
October 15Cornell (IA)Cedar Rapids, IAW 40–0
October 22CoeCedar Rapids, IAW 18–0[3]
October 29Upper IowaCedar Falls, IAT 0–0
November 5at IowaW 11–5

References edit

  1. ^ "2019 Northern Iowas Football Media Guide" (PDF). University of Northern Iowa. 2019. p. 105.
  2. ^ "Our Boys Were Beaten But They Played Good Foot Ball Just the Same". Waterloo Daily Courier. October 3, 1898 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Coe Loses 18 to 0: Normalites Defeat Them at Foot Ball". The Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette. October 24, 1898 – via Newspapers.com.