1889 Princeton Tigers football team
| 1889 Princeton Tigers football | |
|---|---|
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Consensus national champion IFA champion | |
| Conference | Intercollegiate Football Association |
| 1889 record | 10–0 (?–0 IFA) |
| Head coach | No coach |
| Captain | Edgar Allan Poe |
The 1889 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1889 college football season. The team finished with a 10–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champions by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[1][2] They outscored their opponents 484 to 29.[2]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 5 | Lehigh | Princeton, NJ | W 16–0 | ||||||
| October 12 | at Lehigh | Bethlehem, PA | W 16–4 | ||||||
| October 19 | Stevens Tech | Princeton, NJ | W 49–0 | ||||||
| October 26 | at Penn | Philadelphia, PA | W 72–4 | ||||||
| November 2 | at Wesleyan | Middletown, CT | W 98–0 | ||||||
| November 6 | at Columbia | New York, NY | W 71–0 | ||||||
| November 16 | at Harvard | Cambridge, MA | W 41–15 | ||||||
| November 23 | Orange (NJ) Athletic Club* | Princeton, NJ | W 54–6 | ||||||
| November 28 | vs. Yale | New York, NY | W 10–0 | ||||||
| November 30 | vs. Columbia (MD) Athletic Club | Washington, D.C. | W 57–0 | ||||||
| *Non-conference game. | |||||||||
References
- ↑ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
- 1 2 1889 Princeton University football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 14, 2013.
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