The 1896 Stanford football team represented

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in the

1896 college football season The 1896 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Lafayette and Princeton as having been selected national champions. Lafayette finished with an 11–0–1 record whil ...

and was coached by Harry P. Cross in the first of his two nonconsecutive seasons with the team.Official results from He returned to coach again in

1898 Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, B ...

. Like the two coaches who preceded him, Cross played football at Yale.

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