1890 Princeton Tigers football team

1890 Princeton Tigers football
Conference Independent
1890 record 11–1–1
Head coach No coach
Captain Edgar Allan Poe

The 1890 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1890 college football season. The team finished with a 11–1–1 record. The Tigers recorded nine shutouts and outscored opponents by a combined total of 478 to 58.[1] The team's only loss was by a 32–0 score against Yale and they tied the Orange Athletic Club 0–0.[2]

Three Princeton players, fullback Sheppard Homans, Jr., end Ralph Warren, and guard Jesse Riggs, were consensus first-team honorees on the 1890 College Football All-America Team.[3] In 1952, Grantland Rice paid tribute to Homans as the embodiment of the rough and tumble days of iron man football. Rice wrote: "Just as Ty Cobb represents the ball game of many years ago, this man represented the football that used to be."[4]

The 115–0 defeat of Virginia is often marked as the beginning of major college football's arrival in the South.[5][6]

Schedule

Date Opponent Location Result Attendance Source
October 4Franklin & MarshallUniversity Field, Princeton, NJW 33–16[7]
October 8Rutgers (rivalry)University Field, Princeton, NJW 27–0300[8]
October 11at Orange Athletic ClubTuxedo Park, New YorkT 0–0500[9]
October 15Penn (rivalry)University Field, Princeton, NJW 18–0600[10]
October 18at Crescent Athletic ClubWashington Park, BrooklynW 12–03,000[11][12]
October 22LafayetteUniversity Field, Princeton, NJW 26–6300[13]
October 25LehighUniversity Field, Princeton, NJW 50–0[14]
October 29at Columbia Athletic ClubAnalostan Island, Washington, D.C.W 60–03,000-4,000[15]
November 1vs. VirginiaOriole Park, BaltimoreW 115–0[16]
November 4at ColumbiaBerkeley Oval, New York, NYW 85–01,000[17]
November 8at Penn (rivalry)University Grounds, PhiladelphiaW 6–010,000[18]
November 15vs. WesleyanEastern Park, BrooklynW 46–4500[19]
November 27vs. Yale (rivalry)Eastern Park, BrooklynL 0–3210,000[20][21]

References

  1. ↑ "1890 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ "All-Time Princeton Results" (PDF). goprincetontigers.com. Princeton University. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  4. ↑ Grantland Rice (1952-04-03). "The Sportlight". Newport Daily News.
  5. ↑ Kevin Edds (June 7, 2013). "Lambeth: Virginia's Father of Athletics". Retrieved April 9, 2015 – via TheSabre.com.
  6. ↑ Newman, Zipp (4 December 1950). "Southern Football Notes". Times Daily - Google News Archive Search. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  7. ↑ "Princeton Surprised: They Defeat Franklin and Marshall With Difficulty". The Times (Philadelphia). October 5, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ "Princeton Defeats Rutgers". The Daily Times (New Brunswick, NJ). October 9, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ↑ "Football Yesterday: The Princeton and Orange A. C. Teams Make a Grand Fight". The Sun (New York). October 12, 1890. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ "A Hard Football Game: Princeton Defeats Pennsylvania by a Score of 18 to 0". The World (New York). October 16, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Princeton Wins Handily: The Crescent Football Team Defeated at Brooklyn". The New York Times. October 19, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com. (Site: Washington Park, Brooklyn)
  12. ↑ "Princeton Outkicks the Crescents". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 19, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com. (Attendance: 3,000)
  13. ↑ "Princeton, 26; Lafayette, 6". The World (New York). October 23, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Princeton Scores Against Lehigh". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 26, 1890. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ "There's Foot-Ball Galore". The Sunday Herald. November 2, 1890. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ↑ "Virginians Vanquished: Princeton Wins a Football Match at Baltimore -- Several Players Injured". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 2, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ↑ "The "Black and Orange" to the Front: Princeton Outkicks the Columbia Boys by a Score of 85 to 0". The Sun (New York). November 5, 1890. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ↑ "Princeton's Close Call: She Had a Hard Fight to beat University of Pennsylvania 6 to 0". The Sun (New York). November 9, 1890. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ↑ "Princeton the Winner". The Inter Ocean. November 16, 1890. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ↑ "Yale's Blue Kickers Win". The Sun (New York). November 28, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ↑ "Fall of a Crowded Stand". The Sun (New York). November 28, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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