1889 Princeton Tigers football team

1889 Princeton Tigers football
Consensus National Champions
IFA Champions
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. They finished with a 10–0 record and were retroactively named national champions by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[1] They outscored their opponents 484 to 29.[1]

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

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1889 Princeton University football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 14, 2013.