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Head coach · Penn State and 1 more · belt games 1897–1898

Samuel Newton

0Days with the belt
0Reigns started
0–0Defending it
0–3Challenging for it

Coached Penn State (1897–1898) and Lafayette (1898) in seasons with a belt game. 3 belt games in all: 0 with the belt in hand, 3 trying to take it.

Samuel Newton was on a sideline for 3 belt games between 1897 and 1898, at Penn State and Lafayette, and never won the belt as a head coach.

He also coached three games with the belt on the other sideline and came away without it. The closest was 24–0 to Lafayette on October 2, 1897.

Reigns

Started under this coach

Never won the belt as a head coach.

Every belt game

3 games, newest first

October 22, 1898 · Lafayette at Pennsylvania 0–32 as challengerlostOctober 1, 1898 · Penn State at Pennsylvania 0–40 as challengerlostOctober 2, 1897 · Penn State at Lafayette 0–24 as challengerlost

Head coaches from the College Football Data API’s coaching records, matched by team and season. A reign counts for the coach in charge the season it began; a mid-season change isn’t split.