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1949 Brown Bears football team

1949 Brown Bears football
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–1
Head coach
Captains
Home stadiumBrown Stadium
Seasons
← 1948
1950 →
1949 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Saint Vincent   –   10 – 0 – 0
No. 4 Army   –   9 – 0 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   8 – 0 – 0
Brown   –   8 – 1 – 0
No. 12 Cornell   –   8 – 1 – 0
No. 13 Villanova   –   8 – 1 – 0
Bucknell   –   6 – 2 – 0
Dartmouth   –   6 – 2 – 0
Buffalo   –   6 – 3 – 0
Pittsburgh   –   6 – 3 – 0
Princeton   –   6 – 3 – 0
Fordham   –   5 – 3 – 0
Tufts   –   5 – 3 – 1
Carnegie Tech   –   5 – 3 – 1
Penn State   –   5 – 4 – 0
Temple   –   5 – 4 – 0
Penn   –   4 – 4 – 0
Yale   –   4 – 4 – 0
Boston College   –   4 – 4 – 1
Syracuse   –   4 – 5 – 0
Drexel   –   3 – 3 – 1
Duquesne   –   3 – 6 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   2 – 5 – 2
CCNY   –   2 – 5 – 1
NYU   –   3 – 6 – 0
Columbia   –   2 – 7 – 0
Hofstra   –   1 – 5 – 1
Colgate   –   1 – 8 – 0
Harvard   –   1 – 8 – 0
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1949 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University during the 1949 college football season.[1] In their sixth and final season under head coach Charles "Rip" Engle, the Bears compiled an 8–1 record, and outscored their opponents 263 to 94. Joe Paterno and J. S. Scott were the team captains.[2] Brown played its home games at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 1 Holy Cross
W 28–6 17,000 [3]
October 8 Rhode Island State
  • Brown Stadium
  • Providence, RI (rivalry)
W 46–0 8,000 [4]
October 15 at Princeton
L 14–27 24,000 [5]
October 22 Lehigh
  • Brown Stadium
  • Providence, RI
W 48–0 10,000 [6]
October 29 at Western Reserve
W 28–14 6,000 [7]
November 5 at Yale
W 14–0 46,000 [8]
November 12 at Harvard
W 28–14 23,000 [9]
November 19 at Columbia
W 16–7 20,000 [10]
November 24 Colgate
  • Brown Stadium
  • Providence, RI
W 41–26 18,000 [11]

References

  1. ^ "1949 Brown Bears Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved October 19, 2018.
  2. ^ "Game-by-Game Results (1878-2019)". Providence, R.I.: Brown University. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
  3. ^ "Brown's Swift and Deceptive Winged-T Attack Stops Young Holy Cross Team". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. October 2, 1949. p. S5.
  4. ^ "Brown Routs R.I. State". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. October 9, 1949. p. S5.
  5. ^ Nichols, Joseph C. (October 16, 1949). "Princeton Upsets Brown Team, 27-14". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  6. ^ Holbrook, Bob (October 23, 1949). "Brown Routs Badly Outclassed Lehigh, 48 to 0". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Mass. p. 45 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Brown Wins, 28-14, with Early Drive". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. Associated Press. October 30, 1949. p. S6.
  8. ^ Werden, Lincoln A. (November 6, 1949). "Yale Is Blanked by Brown, 14 to 0". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  9. ^ "Brown Conquers Harvard, 28-14, with Strong Air and Land Attack". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. November 13, 1949. p. S1.
  10. ^ Werden, Lincoln A. (November 20, 1949). "Columbia Bows to Brown in Its Last Game by 16-7". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. S1.
  11. ^ Sheehan, Joseph M. (November 25, 1949). "Brown Surge in Last Six Minutes Overcomes Colgate Eleven, 41-26". The New York Times. New York, N.Y. p. 34.


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