1891 college football season

The 1891 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Yale as having been selected national champions.[1]

Conference and program changes

School1890 Conference1891 Conference
Case footballProgram establishedIndependent
Sewanee TigersProgram EstablishedIndependent
Tennessee VolunteersProgram EstablishedIndependent
West Virginia MountaineersProgram establishedIndependent

Awards and honors

All-Americans

The consensus All-America team included:

Position Name Height Weight (lbs.) Class Hometown Team
QB Philip King 5'6" 154 So. Washington, D. C. Princeton
HB Everett J. Lake Sr. Woodstock, Connecticut Harvard
HB Bum McClung 5'10" 165 Sr. Knoxville, Tennessee Yale
FB Sheppard Homans, Jr. Sr. Englewood, New Jersey Princeton
E Frank Hinkey 5'9" 150 Fr. Tonawanda, New York Yale
T Wallace Winter Jr. Hudson, Wisconsin Yale
G Pudge Heffelfinger 6'4" 178 Sr. Minneapolis, Minnesota Yale
C John Adams Sr. Penn
G Jesse Riggs Sr. Baltimore, Maryland Princeton
T Marshall Newell 5'7" 168 So. Great Barrington, Massachusetts Harvard
E John A. Hartwell Sr. Sussex, New Jersey Yale

Statistical leaders

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1891 CFA football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Colorado Mines $   –  –   5 –1 –1
  • $ – Conference champion
1891 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale   –    13 –0 –0
Harvard   –    13 –1 –0
Princeton   –    12 –1 –0
Trinity   –    3 –0 –0
Wake Forest   –    1 –0 –0
Penn   –    11 –2 –0
Illinois   –    5 –1 –0
Colgate   –    4 –1 –0
Army   –    4 –1 –1
Stanford   –    3 –1 –0
Vanderbilt   –    3 –1 –0
Wisconsin   –    3 –1 –1
Navy   –    5 –2 –0
Cornell   –    7 –3 –0
Rutgers   –    8 –6 –0
Geneva   –    4 –2 –0
Washington & Jefferson   –    4 –2 –0
Virginia   –    2 –1 –2
Delaware   –    5 –3 –1
Dartmouth   –    2 –2 –1
Washington   –    1 –1 –0
Doane   –    1 –2 –0
Sewanee   –    1 –2 –0
USC   –    1 –2 –0
Michigan   –    4 –5 –0
Ohio State   –    2 –3 –0
Colorado   –    1 –4 –0
Columbia   –    1 –5 –0
Indiana   –    1 –5 –0
California   –    0 –1 –0
Central   –    0 –1 –0
Furman   –    0 –1 –0
West Virginia   –    0 –1 –0
North Carolina   –    0 –2 –0
1891 IIAA football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Purdue $ 4 –0 –0  4 –0 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
1891 Northeast Intercollegiate League football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Williams (MA) $   –    3 –0 –1
  • $ – Conference champion
1891 PIFA football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Penn State $ 4 –1 –0  6 –2 –0
Dickinson   –  –     –  – 
Franklin & Marshall   –  –     –  – 
Haverford   –  –     –  – 
Lewisburg   –  –     –  – 
Swarthmore   –  –     –  – 
  • $ – 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.
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