1899 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

American college football season

1899 North Carolina Tar Heels football

Conference	Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Record	7–3–1 (1–1 SIAA)
Head coach	William A. Reynolds (3rd season)
Assistant coach	John Gere Jayne (1st season)
Captain	Samuel Shull
Home stadium	Campus Athletic Field (I)
Seasons← 1898 1900 →

1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
v t e	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Sewanee $	11	–	0	–	0	12	–	0	–	0
Vanderbilt	5	–	0	–	0	7	–	2	–	0
Alabama	1	–	0	–	0	3	–	1	–	0
Nashville	4	–	1	–	0	4	–	1	–	1
Tennessee	2	–	1	–	0	6	–	2	–	0
Auburn	2	–	1	–	1	3	–	1	–	1
Texas	3	–	2	–	0	6	–	2	–	0
North Carolina	1	–	1	–	0	7	–	3	–	0
Ole Miss	3	–	4	–	0	3	–	4	–	0
Georgia	2	–	3	–	1	2	–	3	–	1
Clemson	1	–	2	–	0	4	–	2	–	0
Central (KY)	1	–	2	–	0	1	–	2	–	0
LSU	1	–	3	–	0	1	–	4	–	0
Kentucky State	0	–	1	–	0	5	–	2	–	2
SW Presbyterian	0	–	1	–	0	1	–	1	–	0
Cumberland (TN)	0	–	3	–	0	0	–	3	–	0
Georgia Tech	0	–	5	–	0	0	–	6	–	0
Tulane	0	–	5	–	0	0	–	6	–	1

$ – Conference champion

The 1899 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina in the 1899 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. They played eleven games with a final record of 7–3–1. The team captain for the 1899 season was Samuel Shull.

Former Sewanee head coach John Gere Jayne (Princeton '97) was hired as an assistant coach.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
October 7	4:00 p.m.	North Carolina A&M	Campus Athletic Field (I) Chapel Hill, NC (rivalry)	W 34–0
October 12	1:30 p.m.	Oak Ridge	Campus Athletic Field (I) Chapel Hill, NC	W 16–0
October 14	2:00 p.m.	Guilford	Campus Athletic Field (I) Chapel Hill, NC	W 45–0
October 21	3:30 p.m.	vs. Davidson	Latta Park Charlotte, NC	W 10–0
October 23	2:00 p.m.	Horner's School (NC)	Campus Athletic Field (I) Chapel Hill, NC	W 46–0
October 28	2:00 p.m.	at North Carolina A&M	State Fairgrounds (II) Raleigh, NC	T 11–11
October 31	3:15 p.m.	"Old" Maryland	Campus Athletic Field (I) Chapel Hill, NC	W 6–0
November 4		at Navy	Worden Field Annapolis, MD	L 0–12
November 8	2:00 p.m.	at Princeton	University Field Princeton, NJ	L 0–30
November 30	2:30 p.m.	vs. Georgia	Piedmont Park Atlanta, GA	W 5–0	3,000
December 2	2:30 p.m.	vs. Sewanee	Piedmont Park Atlanta, GA	L 0–5	2,000

References

"The Hellenian [1900] :: North Carolina College and University Yearbooks". Archived from the original on February 2, 2014. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
"The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, October 11, 1899, Image 1". No. 1899/10/11. October 11, 1899. p. 1.
"First football game; University beats A. & M. College in a well played contest". The Morning Post. October 8, 1899. Retrieved April 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, October 18, 1899, Image 1". No. 1899/10/18. October 18, 1899. p. 1.
"Carolina defeats Oak Ridge in football". Asheville Daily Gazette. October 13, 1899. Retrieved April 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
"Never touched Guilford; Carolina only scored 45 to Guilford's nothing". The News and Observer. October 15, 1899. Retrieved April 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, October 25, 1899, Image 1". No. 1899/10/25. October 25, 1899. p. 1.
"University defeats Davidson College by a close score". The Morning Post. October 22, 1899. Retrieved September 5, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
"The News & Observer. (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, October 27, 1899, Image 5". No. 1899/10/27. October 27, 1899. p. 5.
"A. & M. surprised". The Morning Post. October 29, 1899. Retrieved April 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
"The Tar Heel. (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 1943-1946, November 08, 1899, Image 1". No. 1899/11/08. November 8, 1899. p. 1.
"University of Maryland beaten". The Baltimore Sun. November 1, 1899. Retrieved April 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
"Naval Cadets win". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 5, 1899. Retrieved April 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
"Daily Princetonian 8 November 1899 – Princeton Periodicals".
"Princeton wins 30 to 0". The New York Times. November 9, 1899. Retrieved April 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
"The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia on November 30, 1899 · Page 1 (newspapers.com)".
"The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia on December 1, 1899 · Page 3 (newspapers.com)".
"Georgia defeated by North Carolina". The Atlanta Journal. December 1, 1899. Retrieved April 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
"The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia on December 2, 1899 · Page 1 (newspapers.com)".
"The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia on December 3, 1899 · Page 8 (newspapers.com)".
"Sewanee is champion". The Times-Democrat. December 3, 1899. Retrieved April 28, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.

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