1896 Wesleyan Methodists football team

1896 Wesleyan Methodists football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–5–1
Head coach
CaptainWilson
1896 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Fordham – 1–0–0
Lafayette – 11–0–1
Princeton – 10–0–1
Washington & Jefferson – 8–0–1
Penn – 14–1–0
Yale – 13–1–0
Pittsburgh College – 11–2–0
Buffalo – 9–1–2
Villanova – 10–4–0
Bucknell – 5–2–1
Harvard – 7–4–0
Boston College – 5–3–0
Storrs – 5–3–0
Cornell – 5–3–1
Syracuse – 5–3–2
Temple – 3–2–0
Army – 3–2–1
Rutgers – 6–6–0
Carlisle – 5–5–0
Holy Cross – 2–2–2
Brown – 4–5–1
Wesleyan – 4–5–1
Dickinson – 4–5–0
Franklin & Marshall – 3–4–2
Geneva – 3–4–0
Penn State – 3–4–0
Colgate – 3–4–1
Western Univ. Penn. – 3–6–0
Lehigh – 2–5–0
Tufts – 2–6–1
Swarthmore – 2–6–0
New Hampshire – 1–4–0
Drexel – 1–5–0
Massachusetts – 0–4–0
Rhode Island – 0–4–0

The 1896 Wesleyan Methodists football team represented Wesleyan University as an independent during the 1896 college football season. Led by William T. Bull in his fifth and final season as head coach, the Methodists compiled a record of 4–5–1.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 7at Williams
L 0–6800[1]
October 10Worcester TechMiddletown, CTW 12–4[2]
October 144:00 p.m.at Harvard
L 0–28[3][4]
October 17Amherst
  • Wesleyan campus
  • Middletown, CT
W 6–0200[5]
October 21at Yale
L 0–16[6][7]
October 28at Amherst
L 4–6400[8]
October 31Tufts
  • Wesleyan camnpus
  • Middletown, CT
W 28–4[9]
November 73:00 p.m.at Army
T 12–12[10]
November 142:30 p.m.Trinity (CT)Middletown, CT (rivalry)W 24–121,000[11][12]
November 21at Lafayette
L 0–18[13]

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References

  1. ↑ "Williams 6 Wesleyan 0.—Team Work of Both Elevens Poor and Contests is Marked by Many Brilliant Individual Plays". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 8, 1896. p. 5. Retrieved June 27, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  2. ↑ "Wesleyan Defeats Worcester "Techs"". New-York Tribune. New York, New York. October 11, 1896. p. 10. Retrieved July 4, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  3. ↑ "Plays Wesleyan.—Harvard Game to Begin At 4 Today". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 14, 1896. p. 4. Retrieved June 27, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ↑ "Once In Danger.—Wesleyan Gets Chance to Drop a Goal". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 15, 1896. p. 7. Retrieved June 27, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ↑ "Wesleyan Outplays Amherst". The New-York Times. New York, New York. October 18, 1896. p. 3. Retrieved June 26, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  6. ↑ "Wesleyan's Good Game.—Yale, However, Won By A Score Of 16-0 Yesterday". The Daily Morning Journal and Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. October 22, 1896. p. 3. Retrieved July 5, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ↑ "Yale, 16; Wesleyan, 0". Boston Post. October 22, 1896. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Amherst 6, Wesleyan 4.—Tyler Kicks a Goal After Amherst's Touchdown and Wesleyan Fails to Do So When She Scores". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 29, 1896. p. 8. Retrieved June 26, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  9. ↑ "Wesleyan Beats Tufts.—Mitchell Score on the Visitors' Only Touchdown on a Play Around the End in the First Half". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 1, 1896. p. 15. Retrieved July 4, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  10. ↑ "A Tie Game At West Point". The New-York Times. New York, New York. November 8, 1896. p. 3. Retrieved July 4, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  11. ↑ "Trinity-Wesleyan To-day.—The Betting is 5 to 3 on the Middletown Boys". The New-York Times. New York, New York. November 14, 1896. p. 7. Retrieved July 4, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  12. ↑ "Trinity Beaten By Wesleyan.—A Game That Was Witnessed by More than a Thousand". The New-York Times. New York, New York. November 16, 1896. p. 3. Retrieved July 4, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  13. ↑ "Lafayette Wins From The Wesleyan Boys". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 22, 1896. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "1896 Wesleyan (CT) Cardinals Schedule and Results". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference. Retrieved July 4, 2026.
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