The 1899 Delaware football team represented Delaware College—now known as the

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—as an independent during the

1899 college football season The 1899 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Harvard and Princeton as having been selected national champions. Chicago, Kansas, and Sewanee went undefeated. With ...

. The team posted a 6–2 record.

Herbert Rice Herbert Leigh Rice (March 10, 1876 – December 30, 1932)"Judge Herbert L. Rice", ''Chester Times'', December 31, 1932, Chester, Pennsylvania was an American college football head coach who was Delaware football program's second head coach. He ...

began his third season as the team's head coach but resigned after the first game to play football for the

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of Pittsburgh. By late October, Delaware was being led by a coach Wentz from

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. Rice returned from Pittsburgh after Delaware had finished its season.

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