1900 Stanford football team

1900 Stanford football
ConferenceIndependent
Record7–2–1
Head coach
CaptainWilliam Wesley Burnett
Seasons
← 1899
1901 →
1900 Far West college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Washington Agricultural     4 0 1
Arizona     3 1 0
Stanford     7 2 1
Utah     2 1 0
California     4 2 1
Nevada State     4 2 1
Oregon     3 3 1
New Mexico A&M     3 3 1
San Jose State     3 3 1
Arizona Normal     1 1 0
USC     1 1 1
Wyoming     3 3 0
Washington     1 2 2
Montana     0 1 0
Utah Agricultural     0 2 0

The 1900 Stanford Cardinal football team represented Stanford University in the 1900 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Fielding H. Yost, the team compiled a 7–2 record, shut out seven of nine opponents, scored 154 points (17.1 points per game), and allowed 20 points (2.2 points per game) by opponents.[1] The team registered three shutouts against the Reliance Club, two shutouts against California State Normal School, now known as San Jose State University, and single game shutouts against Oregon and California. The team's two losses came against Nevada (0–6) and a Stanford alumni team (0–14) that featured coach Yost playing at the fullback position.

Stanford's final game of the season against California, played on Thanksgiving Day in San Francisco, drew the largest crowd to that date to watch a sporting event west of the Mississippi River. An overflow crowd watched from the roof of an adjacent factory. The weight of the spectators caused the roof to collapse, plunging a large group, primarily boys and young men, to the concrete floor and active furnaces of the factory. In all, 22 died and more than 70 were injured.

  1. ^ "Stanford Yearly Results (1900-1904)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved August 13, 2015.