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1912 Brown Bears football team

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1912 Brown Bears football
ConferenceIndependent
Record6–4
Head coach
Home stadiumAndrews Field
Seasons
← 1911
1913 →
1912 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard     9 0 0
Penn State     8 0 0
Carlisle     12 1 1
Maine     7 1 0
Princeton     7 1 1
Swarthmore     7 1 1
Yale     7 1 1
Lehigh     9 2 0
Dartmouth     7 2 0
Wesleyan     7 2 0
Colgate     5 2 0
Washington & Jefferson     8 3 1
Rhode Island State     6 3 0
Bucknell     6 3 1
Temple     3 2 0
Penn     7 4 0
Army     5 3 0
Brown     6 4 0
Franklin & Marshall     6 4 0
Holy Cross     4 3 1
Rutgers     5 4 0
Tufts     5 4 0
Fordham     4 4 0
Villanova     3 3 0
Morris Harvey     2 2 0
Lafayette     4 5 1
Syracuse     4 5 0
Carnegie Tech     3 4 1
Geneva     3 4 0
Vermont     3 5 0
Pittsburgh     3 6 0
Boston College     2 4 1
Cornell     3 7 0
NYU     2 6 0

The 1912 Brown Bears football team represented Brown University as an independent during the 1912 college football season. Led by 11th-year head coach Edward N. Robinson, Brown compiled a record of 6–4.[1]

Schedule

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DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 28Colby
W 3–0
October 5Rhode Island State
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI (rivalry)
W 14–0
October 12Wesleyan
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
L 6–7
October 19Penn
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
W 30–7
October 26at HarvardL 10–30> 15,000[2]
November 2Vermont
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
W 12–7[3]
November 9at YaleL 0–10
November 16Lafayette
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
W 21–7
November 23Norwich
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
W 21–7
November 28Carlisle
  • Andrews Field
  • Providence, RI
L 0–32[4]

References

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  1. ^ "1912 Brown Bears Schedule and Results | College Football at Sports-Reference.com". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  2. ^ "Easy for Harvard, 30-10". The Boston Globe. October 27, 1912. pp. 1, 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Brown 12, Vermont 7". The Boston Globe. November 3, 1912. Retrieved June 18, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Thorpe closes football career". The Hartford Courant. November 29, 1912. p. 16. Retrieved June 18, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.