1890 college football season

The 1890 college football season was the season of American football played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1890–91 academic year.

1890 college football season
1890 Harvard Crimson
Champion(s)Harvard
football seasons

The 1890 Harvard Crimson football team compiled a perfect 11–0 record, outscored opponents by a total of 555 to 12, and was recognized as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[1]

In the Midwest, the Baker Methodists defeated the Kansas Jayhawks by a score of 22–9 in the first college football game played in Kansas.[2] In the South, Vanderbilt Commodores defeated Nashville (Peabody), 40–0, in the first college football game played in Tennessee.[3]

As the popularity of the sport increased, several notable programs were established in 1890, including Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Vanderbilt.

All eleven players selected by Caspar Whitney for the 1890 All-America college football team came from the Big Three (Harvard Princeton, and Yale). Three of the honorees have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: Harvard's great tackle Marshall "Ma" Newell, Yale's guard Pudge Heffelfinger, and Yale's halfback Thomas "Bum" McClung.

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
Western Reserve footballProgram establishedIndependent

Awards and honors

All-Americans
Main article: 1890 College Football All-America Team

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 Colorado Football Association 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
Colorado Agricultural 0 –2 –0  0 –2 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
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 Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Butler $ 3 –0 –1  3 –0 –1
Purdue 2 –1 –0  3 –3 –0
Wabash 0 –3 –0  0 –3 –0
  • $ – Conference champion

Independents
1890 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Harvard   –    11 –0 –0
Yale   –    13 –1 –0
Princeton   –    11 –1 –1
Franklin & Marshall   –    8 –2 –0
Navy   –    5 –1 –1
Penn   –    11 –3 –0
Cornell   –    8 –4 –0
Washington & Jefferson   –    2 –1 –0
Syracuse   –    7 –4 –0
Lehigh   –    6 –4 –0
Delaware   –    3 –2 –0
Amherst   –    6 –5 –1
Rutgers   –    5 –5 –1
Dartmouth   –    4 –4 –0
Penn State   –    2 –2 –0
Colgate   –    1 –1 –0
Wesleyan   –    5 –6 –0
Tufts   –    2 –3 –0
Brown   –    2 –4 –1
Western Univ. Penn   –    1 –2 –0
Lafayette   –    2 –5 –1
Fordham   –    1 –3 –1
Massachusetts   –    1 –4 –0
Columbia   –    1 –5 –1
Army   –    0 –1 –0
Geneva   –    0 –1 –0
1890 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Nebraska   –    2 –0 –0
Washington University   –    2 –0 –0
Minnesota   –    5 –1 –1
Michigan   –    4 –1 –0
Northwestern   –    4 –1 –1
Missouri   –    2 –1 –0
Cincinnati   –    2 –1 –1
Lake Forest   –    5 –3 –0
Baker   –    1 –1 –0
Iowa   –    1 –1 –0
Illinois   –    1 –2 –0
Kansas   –    1 –2 –0
Ohio Wesleyan   –    1 –3 –0
Wisconsin   –    1 –3 –0
Ohio State   –    1 –4 –0
Doane   –    0 –1 –0
Washburn   –    0 –1 –0
1890 Southern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Furman   –    2 –0 –0
Vanderbilt   –    1 –0 –0
Virginia   –    5 –2 –0
Navy   –    5 –1 –1
Delaware   –    3 –2 –0
Georgetown   –    3 –3 –1
Johns Hopkins   –    0 –1 –0
Nashville   –    0 –1 –0
Trinity (NC)   –    0 –1 –0
Richmond   –    0 –3 –0
1890 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Nebraska   –    2 –0 –0
Washington University   –    2 –0 –0
Minnesota   –    5 –1 –1
Michigan   –    4 –1 –0
Northwestern   –    4 –1 –1
Missouri   –    2 –1 –0
Cincinnati   –    2 –1 –1
Lake Forest   –    5 –3 –0
Baker   –    1 –1 –0
Iowa   –    1 –1 –0
Illinois   –    1 –2 –0
Kansas   –    1 –2 –0
Ohio Wesleyan   –    1 –3 –0
Wisconsin   –    1 –3 –0
Ohio State   –    1 –4 –0
Doane   –    0 –1 –0
Washburn   –    0 –1 –0

References
  1. "National Poll Champions" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. National Collegiate Athletic Association. 2017. p. 110. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  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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