1899 Western Conference football season

1899 Western Conference football season
SportFootball
Number of teams7
ChampionChicago
Football seasons
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1899 Western Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Chicago $ 4 0 0 16 0 2
Wisconsin 4 1 0 9 2 0
Northwestern 2 2 0 7 6 0
Michigan 1 1 0 8 2 0
Purdue 1 2 0 4 4 1
Minnesota 0 3 0 6 3 2
Illinois 0 3 0 3 5 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Portrait of 1899 Purdue football team
Portrait of 1899 Purdue football team

The 1899 Western Conference football season was the fourth season of college football played by the member schools of the Western Conference (later known as the Big Ten Conference) and was a part of the 1899 college football season.

The 1899 Chicago Maroons football team, under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, won the conference championship with a 16–0–2 overall record (4–0 against conference opponents), led the conference in both scoring offense (28.1 points per game) and scoring defense (1.6 points per game), shut out 13 of 18 opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 505 to 28.