1889 college football season

The 1889 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Princeton as having been selected national champions.[1] On December 14, Wofford defeated Furman played the first intercollegiate game in the state of South Carolina. The game featured no uniforms, no positions, and the rules were formulated before the game.[2] Wofford won 5 to 1.

This was the first season an attempt was made to recognize individuals on an All-American team.

Conference and program changes

School1888 Conference1889 Conference
Iowa College PioneersProgram establishedIndependent
State University of Iowa HawkeyesProgram establishedIndependent
Washington footballProgram establishedIndependent

Awards and honors

All-Americans

The consensus All-America team included:

Position Name Height Weight (lbs.) Class Hometown Team
QB Edgar Allan Poe Jr. Baltimore, Maryland Princeton
HB Roscoe Channing 141 Sr. New York, New York Princeton
HB James P. Lee Jr. New York, New York Harvard
FB Snake Ames 5'10" 157 Sr. Chicago, Illinois Princeton
E Amos Alonzo Stagg Sr. West Orange, New Jersey Yale
T Hector Cowan Sr. Hobart, New York Princeton
G Pudge Heffelfinger 6'4" 178 So. Minneapolis, Minnesota Yale
C William George Sr. Princeton
G John Cranston Jr. Sheridan, New York Harvard
T Charles O. Gill Sr. Walpole, Massachusetts Yale
E Arthur Cumnock Jr. Danielson, Connecticut Harvard

Statistical leaders

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

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
1889 Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Dartmouth $ 4 –0 –0    –  – 
  • $ – Conference champion

References

  1. ↑ Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
  2. ↑ Furman 2014 FB Record Book
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