1889 Princeton Tigers football team

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1889 Princeton Tigers football
Princeton Tigers football team (1889).png
National champion
ConferenceIndependent
1889 record10–0
Head coach
  • None
CaptainEdgar Allan Poe
Seasons
← 1888
1890 →
1889 Eastern college football independents records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   10 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   15 – 1 – 0
Dartmouth   –   7 – 1 – 0
Harvard   –   9 – 2 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   5 – 1 – 1
Dickinson   –   4 – 1 – 1
Navy   –   4 – 1 – 1
Tufts   –   3 – 1 – 0
Lehigh   –   8 – 3 – 2
Cornell   –   8 – 4 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 6 – 0
Brown   –   2 – 2 – 0
Penn State   –   2 – 2 – 0
Delaware   –   1 – 1 – 1
Wesleyan   –   5 – 7 – 1
Bucknell   –   2 – 3 – 1
Amherst   –   3 – 5 – 2
Lafayette   –   3 – 4 – 2
Columbia   –   2 – 7 – 2
Fordham   –   1 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 4 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 2 – 0

The 1889 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1889 college football season. The team finished with a 10–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champions by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[1] It was Princeton's 15th national championship.[2] The team outscored their opponents 484 to 29.[3] The team was captained by Edgar Allan Poe, the second cousin of his namesake, the writer Edgar Allan Poe.[4]

Five Princeton players were selected by Caspar Whitney to the 1889 All-America college football team: quarterback Poe; halfback Roscoe Channing; fullback Knowlton Ames; tackle Hector Cowan; and center William George.[5] Ames and Cowan were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Schedule[]

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5LehighPrinceton, NJW 16–0
October 12at LehighBethlehem, PAW 16–4
October 19StevensPrinceton, NJW 49–0
October 26at PennPhiladelphia, PA (rivalry)W 72–4
November 2at WesleyanMiddletown, CTW 98–0
November 6at Columbia
  • Berkeley Oval
  • New York, NY
W 71–0
November 16at HarvardCambridge, MA (rivalry)W 41–15
November 23Orange Athletic ClubPrinceton, NJW 54–6[6]
November 28vs. Yale
W 10–0>25,000[7]
November 30vs. Columbia Athletic ClubWashington, DCW 57–0

References[]

  1. ^ "National Poll Champions" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. National Collegiate Athletic Association. 2017. p. 110. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  2. ^ "Championships - Tigers Football". princetontigersfootball.com. Princeton University. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  3. ^ "1889 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  4. ^ "All-Time Princeton Results" (PDF). goprincetontigers.com. Princeton University. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  5. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  6. ^ "Princeton Easily Defeats Orange". The Sun. November 24, 1889. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Princeton Wins Gloriously". The Sun (New York). November 29, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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