1890 Princeton Tigers football team

The 1890 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1890 college football season. The team finished with an 11–1–1 record. The Tigers recorded nine shutouts and outscored opponents by a combined total of 478 to 58.^[1] The team's only loss was by a 32–0 score against Yale and they tied the Orange Athletic Club 0–0.^[2]

1890 Princeton Tigers football
Conference	Independent
Record	11–1–1
Head coach	None
Captain	Edgar Allan Poe
Home stadium	University Field
Seasons ← 1889 1891 →

1890 Eastern college football independents records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		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
Washington & Jefferson			–					2	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					7	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					7	–	4	–	0
Springfield YMCA			–					5	–	3	–	0
Lehigh			–					6	–	4	–	0
Delaware			–					3	–	2	–	0
Rutgers			–					5	–	5	–	1
Penn State			–					2	–	2	–	0
Colgate			–					1	–	1	–	0
Wesleyan			–					5	–	6	–	0
Tufts			–					2	–	3	–	0
NYU			–					2	–	4	–	0
Western Univ. Penn			–					1	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					2	–	5	–	1
Brown			–					2	–	5	–	0
Bucknell			–					1	–	4	–	1
Fordham			–					1	–	3	–	1
Massachusetts			–					1	–	4	–	0
Columbia			–					1	–	5	–	1
Army			–					0	–	1	–	0
Geneva			–					0	–	1	–	0

Three Princeton players, fullback Sheppard Homans, Jr., end Ralph Warren, and guard Jesse Riggs, were consensus first-team honorees on the 1890 College Football All-America Team.^[3] In 1952, Grantland Rice paid tribute to Homans as the embodiment of the rough and tumble days of iron man football. Rice wrote: "Just as Ty Cobb represents the ball game of many years ago, this man represented the football that used to be."^[4]

The 115–0 defeat of Virginia is often marked as the beginning of major college football's arrival in the South.^[5][6]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 4	Franklin & Marshall	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 33–16		[7]
October 8	Rutgers	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 27–0	300	[8]
October 11	at Orange Athletic Club	Tuxedo Park, NY	T 0–0	500	[9]
October 15	Penn	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	W 18–0	600	[10]
October 18	at Crescent Athletic Club	Washington Park Brooklyn, NY	W 12–0	3,000	[11][12]
October 22	Lafayette	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 26–6	300	[13]
October 25	Lehigh	University Field Princeton, NJ	W 50–0		[14]
October 29	at Columbia Athletic Club	Analostan Island Washington, DC	W 60–0	3,000–4,000	[15]
November 1	vs. Virginia	Oriole Park Baltimore, MD	W 115–0		[16]
November 4	at Columbia	Berkeley Oval New York, NY	W 85–0	1,000	[17]
November 8	at Penn	University Grounds Philadelphia, PA	W 6–0	10,000	[18]
November 15	vs. Wesleyan	Eastern Park Brooklyn, NY	W 46–4	500	[19]
November 27	vs. Yale	Eastern Park Brooklyn, NY (rivalry)	L 0–32	10,000	[20][21]

References

1. "1890 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
2. "All-Time Princeton Results" (PDF). goprincetontigers.com. Princeton University. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
3. "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
4. Grantland Rice (April 3, 1952). "The Sportlight". Newport Daily News.
5. Kevin Edds (June 7, 2013). "Lambeth: Virginia's Father of Athletics". Retrieved April 9, 2015 – via TheSabre.com.
6. Newman, Zipp (December 4, 1950). "Southern Football Notes". Times Daily - Google News Archive Search. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
7. "Princeton Surprised: They Defeat Franklin and Marshall With Difficulty". The Times (Philadelphia). October 5, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
8. "Princeton Defeats Rutgers". The Daily Times (New Brunswick, NJ). October 9, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
9. "Football Yesterday: The Princeton and Orange A. C. Teams Make a Grand Fight". The Sun (New York). October 12, 1890. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
10. "A Hard Football Game: Princeton Defeats Pennsylvania by a Score of 18 to 0". The World (New York). October 16, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
11. "Princeton Wins Handily: The Crescent Football Team Defeated at Brooklyn". The New York Times. October 19, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.(Site: Washington Park, Brooklyn)
12. "Princeton Outkicks the Crescents". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 19, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.(Attendance: 3,000)
13. "Princeton, 26; Lafayette, 6". The World (New York). October 23, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
14. "Princeton Scores Against Lehigh". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 26, 1890. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
15. "There's Foot-Ball Galore". The Sunday Herald. November 2, 1890. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
16. "Virginians Vanquished: Princeton Wins a Football Match at Baltimore -- Several Players Injured". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 2, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
17. "The "Black and Orange" to the Front: Princeton Outkicks the Columbia Boys by a Score of 85 to 0". The Sun (New York). November 5, 1890. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
18. "Princeton's Close Call: She Had a Hard Fight to beat University of Pennsylvania 6 to 0". The Sun (New York). November 9, 1890. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
19. "Princeton the Winner". The Inter Ocean. November 16, 1890. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
20. "Yale's Blue Kickers Win". The Sun (New York). November 28, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
21. "Fall of a Crowded Stand". The Sun (New York). November 28, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.