1890 Northwestern Purple football team

1890 Northwestern Purple football
Conference Independent
1890 record 4–2–1
Head coach None

The 1890 Northwestern Purple football team was an American football team that represented Northwestern University during the 1890 college football season. The team compiled a 4–2–1 record and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 84 to 70. Only two of the seven games were intercollegiate games, a 22–6 victory over Beloit College on November 22, 1890, in Evanston, and a 22–10 victory over Wisconsin on November 27, 1890, in Milwaukee.[1] The game against Wisconsin was the first between Northwestern and another of the teams that would later organize the Big Ten Conference.

References

  1. "Northwestern Yearly Results (1885-1889)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
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