American Football
College championship
- College football national championship – Harvard Crimson and Princeton Tigers (shared)
Events
- The 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team goes undefeated, 12–0, including five road wins in six days over top teams.
Read more about this topic: 1899 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the words american and/or football:
“After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“In this dream that dogs me I am part
Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
All moving the same way.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)