1898 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team

1898 Kentucky State College Blue and White football
State champion
ConferenceSouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Record7–0 (0–0 SIAA)
Head coach
CaptainRoscoe Severs
Seasons
← 1897
1899 →
1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Sewanee 3 0 0 4 0 0
Auburn 2 0 0 2 1 0
LSU 1 0 0 1 0 0
Georgia 3 1 0 4 2 0
Clemson 1 1 0 3 1 0
Tulane 1 1 0 1 1 0
Vanderbilt 1 2 0 1 5 0
Mississippi 0 1 0 1 1 0
Texas 0 1 0 5 1 0
Nashville 0 2 0 0 2 0
Georgia Tech 0 3 0 0 4 0
Kentucky State# 0 0 0 7 0 0
Cumberland (TN) 0 0 0 0 0 0
SW Presbyterian 0 0 0 0 0 0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • # – State champion

The 1898 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team represented Kentucky State College—now known as the University of Kentucky—during the 1898 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. Led by first-year head coach W. R. Bass, the team, known as "the Immortals,"[1] was undefeated, untied, and unscored upon, posted a 7–0 record and outscored its opponents 181 to 0.[2][3][4] The Centre game was stopped by rain after fifteen minutes of play.

  1. ^ Toby Barnhart (August 2008). Southern Fried Football. p. 113. ISBN 9781623684884.
  2. ^ Hambleton Tapp (1977). Kentucky:Decades of Discord. p. 113. ISBN 0916968057.
  3. ^ William Ellis (June 2011). A History of Education in Kentucky. p. 35. ISBN 978-0813129846.
  4. ^ Carl B. Cone (1989). The University of Kentucky: A Pictorial History. p. 32. ISBN 0813116961.