| Date of death | Victim | Organization | Institution or location | Cause of death | Notes |
| November 3, 1900 | Thomas Finley Brown | Class hazing | Porter Military Academy (Charleston, South Carolina) | Internal injuries | 12-year-old Brown was forced to drop blindfolded into a swimming pool. He dropped approximately 12 ft (3 m) into the pool, which contained almost no water. He died from internal injuries. |
| November 16, 1900 | Hugh Chadwick Moore | Class hazing | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Neck trauma | Moore died following the annual "Cane rush"—a tradition in which freshmen were given a special cane that the sophomores would attempt to steal during a scrap. After the pistol sounded to begin the rush, Moore grabbed hold of the cane, eventually finding himself at the bottom of the pile. He was asked several times if he was alright, to which he ans |
| December 3, 1900 | Oscar Booz | Class hazing | United States Military Academy West Point, New York | Tuberculosis | Booz began at West Point in June 1898 in good physical health. Four months later, he resigned due to health problems. He died in December 1900 of tuberculosis. During his long struggle with the illness, he blamed the illness on hazing he received at West Point in 1898, claiming he had hot sauce poured down his throat on three occasions, as well as |
| September 15, 1903 | Ralph McBride | Secret society "L. of S " | Bluffton High School (Bluffton, Indiana) | Sepsis | Fifteen-year-old McBride died five months after he was hazed roughly during the initiation into a high school secret society. Three other boys were hazed roughly at the same time, leading another of the boys' fathers to press charges for assault and battery against the boys. The other boys survived, but McBride developed sepsis and died following a |
| November 8, 1903 | Martin Loew | Phi Psi Chi (Local dental fraternity) | University of Maryland, Baltimore | | Shortly after being initiated into Phi Psi Chi, German-born Loew was found deceased in his dorm room while his South African roommate was found unconscious. Upon awakening, Loew's roommate described the hazing. A week prior, Loew was undressed, blindfolded, and taken into a room where he was laid on a block of ice. He was then carried upstairs to a |
| 1903 | Ralph Canning | Childhood hazing | Barton, Vermont | | Three young boys, aged 11, 10, and 7, read about hazing practices in college and decided to try it themselves. They built a fire in a pasture behind the schoolhouse and led nine-year-old Ralph Canning to the spot. They heated several stones until they were red hot. The boys forced Canning to both sit and stand on the hot stones and held him there d |
| September 1904 | Frank Miller | Class hazing | Purdue University | Pneumonia | Miller and other freshmen were taken to a bridge over the Wabash River. When he refused to cheer for the sophomores, he was stripped, painted black from head to toe (black and gold are Purdue's official colors), and thrown into the river. He was forced to swim until he was exhausted in the very cold water. He died of pneumonia four days later. |
| April 1904 | Freddie Fillwock | Class hazing | Rawson School (Findlay, Ohio) | Head trauma | Ten-year-old Fillwock was fatally injured during a hazing event by older boys at the school. He was being physically hazed by several boys who were several years older than him when he broke away from the crowd. He ran toward his home but fell, striking the back of his head on a stake. Several other boys piled on top of him. When he was picked up, |
| October 28, 1905 | Stuart Lathrop Pierson | Delta Kappa Epsilon | Kenyon College | Hit by a train | Pierson was killed while being initiated into a fraternity. He was sent to a railroad track as part of a hazing ceremony and killed by an unscheduled train. |
| February 10, 1906 | William Taylor | Class hazing | A school in Lima, Ohio | Pneumonia | Thirteen-year-old Taylor was buried in a snowdrift after rough hazing by classmates. He died a few days later of pneumonia. |
| January 3, 1906 | Cecil F. Leat | Class hazing | Hilliard High School (Columbus, Ohio) | | On November 9, 1905, Leat was thrown into a rail, then to the ground, where he was beaten severely. He died the following January from the injuries. |
| September 27, 1908 | Emil S. Gran | Class hazing | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Spinal trauma | On September 22, 1908, Gran fractured his spine in the Sophomore-Freshmen cane rush and died several days later from his injuries. |
| March 1909 | Charles Stinson | Class hazing | White School (Indianapolis, Indiana) | | Stintson was strung up by the ankles to a tree near the school and left for an extended period. He died several hours after being taken down. |
