The 1900 Lafayette football team represented

Lafayette College Lafayette College is a private liberal arts college in Easton, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter and other citizens in Easton, the college first held classes in 1832. The founders voted to name the college after General Laf ...

in the

1900 college football season The 1900 college football season ended with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Yale as having been selected national champions. Conference and program changes * The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representative ...

. Lafayette shut out seven opponents and finished with a 9–2 record in their second year under head coach Samuel B. Newton. Significant games included victories over Lehigh (34–0 and 18–0), and

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(17–0), and losses to

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(0–5) and Penn (5–12). The 1900 Lafayette team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 214 to 25. Three Lafayette players received recognition on the 1900 College Football All-America Team. They are: center

Walter E. Bachman Walter Ellsworth "Scrapper" Bachman Sr. (March 19, 1879 – November 11, 1958) was an American college football player and coach. A player at Lafayette College from 1899 until 1901, Bachman developed the " roving center" position for college footb ...

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Caspar Whitney Caspar William Whitney (September 2, 1864 – January 18, 1929) was an American author, editor, explorer, outdoorsman and war correspondent. He originated the concept of the All-American team in college football in 1889 when he worked for ''Harper ...

, 1st team); guard Trout (Whitney, 2nd team); and fullback David Dudley Cure (

Walter Camp Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". Among a long list of inventions, he created the sport's line of scrimmage and the system ...

, 2nd team; deemed "ineligible" by Whitney).

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