1890 college football season

The 1890 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Harvard as having been selected national champions.[1]

On November 22, college football was first played in the state of Kansas when the Baker Methodists defeated the Kansas Jayhawks by a score of 22–9.[2] On November 27, college football was first played in the state of Tennessee when the Vanderbilt Commodores defeated Nashville (Peabody) 40–0.[3]

Conference and program changes

School1889 Conference1890 Conference
Butler BulldogsIndependentIIAA
Colorado Silver and GoldProgram establishedIndependent
DePauw TigersIndependentIIAA
Earlham Hustlin' QuakersIndependentIIAA
Hanover PanthersIndependentIIAA
Illinois IlliniProgram EstablishedIndependent
Indiana State Normal SycamoresIndependentIIAA
Indiana HoosiersIndependentIIAA
Kansas JayhawksProgram EstablishedIndependent
Missouri TigersProgram EstablishedIndependent
NashvilleProgram EstablishedIndependent
Nebraska Old Gold KnightsProgram EstablishedIndependent
Purdue BoilermakersIndependentIIAA
Rose Polytechnic EngineersIndependentIIAA
Vanderbilt footballProgram EstablishedIndependent
Wabash Little GiantsIndependentIIAA
Washington (MO) BearsProgram establishedIndependent
Western Reserve footballProgram establishedIndependent

Awards and honors

All-Americans

The consensus All-America team included:

Position Name Height Weight (lbs.) Class Hometown Team
QB Dudley Dean Sr. Lake Village, New Hampshire Harvard
HB Bum McClung 5'10" 165 Jr. Knoxville, Tennessee Yale
HB John J. Corbett Fr. Boston, Massachusetts Harvard
FB Sheppard Homans, Jr. Jr. Englewood, New Jersey Princeton
E Frank Hallowell So. Medford, Massachusetts Harvard
T Marshall Newell 5'7" 168 Fr. Great Barrington, Massachusetts Harvard
G Pudge Heffelfinger 6'4" 178 Jr. Minneapolis, Minnesota Yale
C John Cranston Sr. Sheridan, New York Harvard
G Jesse Riggs Jr. Baltimore, Maryland Princeton
T William Rhodes Sr. Cleveland, Ohio Yale
E Ralph Warren Jr. Montclair, New Jersey Princeton

Statistical leaders

  • Player scoring most points: Philip King, Princeton, 145

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1890 CFA football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Colorado Mines $ 3 –0 –0  6 –0 –0
Denver 2 –1 –0  3 –2 –0
Colorado College 1 –2 –0  2 –3 –0
Colorado 0 –3 –0  1 –6 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
1890 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Harvard   –    11 –0 –0
Yale   –    13 –1 –0
California   –    4 –0 –0
Virginia   –    5 –2 –0
Cornell   –    8 –4 –0
Michigan   –    4 –1 –0
Dartmouth   –    4 –4 –0
Washington   –    0 –0 –1
Columbia   –    1 –5 –1
Colorado   –    0 –4 –0
1890 Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Williams (MA) $   –    5 –0 –0
Dartmouth   –    4 –4 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
1890 IIAA football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Butler $ 3 –0 –1  3 –0 –1
Purdue 2 –1 –0  3 –3 –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. ↑ Evans, Harold (August 1940). "College Football in Kansas". Kansas Historical Quarterly. pp. 285–311. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
  3. ↑ John Majors. "College Football". Tennessee Historical Society. Retrieved 2006-11-29.
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