1889 Princeton Tigers football team

1889 Princeton Tigers football
Consensus national champion
Conference Independent
1889 record 10–0
Head coach No coach
Captain Edgar Allan Poe
1889 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Princeton   –    10 –0 –0
Yale   –    15 –1 –0
Harvard   –    9 –2 –0
Virginia   –    4 –2 –0
USC   –    2 –0 –0
Notre Dame   –    1 –0 –0
North Carolina   –    1 –1 –0
Washington   –    0 –1 –0
Michigan   –    1 –2 –0
Columbia   –    2 –7 –2

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]

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
October 5 Lehigh Princeton, NJ W 16–0  
October 12 at Lehigh Bethlehem, PA W 16–4  
October 19 Stevens Princeton, NJ W 49–0  
October 26 at Penn Philadelphia, PA (rivalry) W 72–4  
November 2 at Wesleyan Middletown, CT W 98–0  
November 6 at Columbia New York, NY W 71–0  
November 16 at Harvard Cambridge, MA (rivalry) W 41–15  
November 23 Orange Athletic Club Princeton, NJ W 54–6  
November 28 vs. Yale New York, NY (rivalry) W 10–0  
November 30 vs. Columbia Athletic Club Washington, DC W 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.
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