1891 college football season

The 1891 college football season was the season of American football played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1891–92 academic year.

1891 college football season
1891 Yale Bulldogs
Champion(s)Yale
football seasons

The 1891 Yale Bulldogs football team, led by head coach Walter Camp, compiled a perfect 13–0 record, outscored opponents by a total of 488 to 0, and has been recognized as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[1] Yale's 1891 season was part of a 37-game winning streak that began at the end of the 1890 season and continued into the 1893 season.

In the Midwest, Kansas led the way with a 7–0–1 record. In the South, Trinity (now known as Duke) was recognized as the champion.

Ten of the eleven players selected by Caspar Whitney to the 1891 All-America college football team came from the Big Three (Yale, Harvard, and Princeton). The eleventh player was center John Adams from Penn. Five of the honorees have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: quarterback Philip King (Princeton), halfback Lee McClung (Yale), end Frank Hinkey (Yale), tackle Marshall Newell (Harvard), and guard Pudge Heffelfinger (Yale).

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
Main article: 1891 College Football All-America Team

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 Colorado Football Association standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Colorado Mines $   –    5 –1 –1
  • $ – Conference champion
1891 Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Purdue $ 4 –0 –0  4 –0 –0
Butler 3 –2 –0  4 –3 –0
Wabash 1 –3 –0  1 –3 –0
Indiana 0 –5 –0  1 –5 –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 Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Football Association 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


Independents
1891 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale   –    13 –0 –0
Harvard   –    13 –1 –0
Princeton   –    12 –1 –0
Tufts   –    7 –1 –0
Penn   –    11 –2 –0
Colgate   –    4 –1 –0
Army   –    4 –1 –1
Navy   –    5 –2 –0
Cornell   –    7 –3 –0
Lehigh   –    7 –4 –0
Rutgers   –    8 –6 –0
Delaware   –    5 –3 –1
Geneva   –    4 –2 –0
Washington & Jefferson   –    4 –2 –0
Amherst   –    8 –4 –3
Dartmouth   –    2 –2 –1
Brown   –    4 –6 –0
Fordham   –    1 –2 –1
Syracuse   –    4 –7 –0
Franklin & Marshall   –    2 –4 –0
Massachusetts   –    2 –5 –0
Western Univ. Penn.   –    2 –6 –0
Lafayette   –    2 –9 –1
Columbia   –    1 –5 –0
Wesleyan   –    1 –6 –0
1891 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Ohio Wesleyan   –    4 –0 –0
Kansas   –    7 –0 –1
Illinois   –    5 –1 –0
Missouri   –    3 –1 –0
Lake Forest   –    6 –2 –0
Washington University   –    4 –1 –1
Minnesota   –    3 –1 –1
Wisconsin   –    3 –1 –1
Cincinnati   –    4 –2 –1
Iowa   –    3 –2 –0
Doane   –    2 –2 –0
Iowa College   –    1 –1 –1
Nebraska   –    2 –2 –0
Northwestern   –    2 –2 –3
Michigan   –    4 –5 –0
Ohio State   –    2 –3 –0
Buchtel   –    1 –3 –0
Washburn   –    1 –5 –0
Michigan State Normal   –    0 –2 –0
1891 Southern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Trinity (NC)   –    3 –0 –0
Wake Forest   –    1 –0 –0
Vanderbilt   –    3 –1 –0
Navy   –    5 –2 –0
Virginia   –    2 –1 –2
Delaware   –    5 –3 –1
Georgetown   –    2 –2 –0
Sewanee   –    1 –2 –0
Central   –    0 –1 –0
Furman   –    0 –1 –0
Kentucky State College   –    0 –1 –0
West Virginia   –    0 –1 –0
Johns Hopkins   –    0 –2 –0
Mercer   –    0 –2 –0
North Carolina   –    0 –2 –0
Richmond   –    0 –2 –0
1891 Far West college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Stanford   –    3 –1 –0
California (spring)   –    4 –2 –0
Washington   –    1 –1 –0
USC   –    1 –2 –0
Colorado   –    1 –4 –0
California   –    0 –1 –0

References
  1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
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