1890 Princeton Tigers football team
American college football season
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]
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 W 33–16[ 7]
October 8 Rutgers University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry ) W 27–0300 [ 8]
October 11 at Orange Athletic Club Tuxedo Park, NY T 0–0500 [ 9]
October 15 Penn University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry ) W 18–0600 [ 10]
October 18 at Crescent Athletic Club W 12–03,000 [ 11] [ 12]
October 22 Lafayette University Field Princeton, NJ W 26–6300 [ 13]
October 25 Lehigh University Field Princeton, NJ W 50–0[ 14]
October 29 at Columbia Athletic Club W 60–03,000–4,000 [ 15]
November 1 vs. Virginia W 115–0[ 16]
November 4 at Columbia W 85–01,000 [ 17]
November 8 at Penn W 6–010,000 [ 18]
November 15 vs. Wesleyan W 46–4500 [ 19]
November 27 vs. Yale L 0–3210,000 [ 20] [ 21]
References
^ "1890 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017 .
^ "All-Time Princeton Results" (PDF) . goprincetontigers.com . Princeton University. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .
^ "Award Winners" (PDF) . NCAA. 2012. pp. 2– 4.
^ Grantland Rice (April 3, 1952). "The Sportlight". Newport Daily News.
^ Kevin Edds (June 7, 2013). "Lambeth: Virginia's Father of Athletics" . Retrieved April 9, 2015 – via TheSabre.com.
^ Newman, Zipp (December 4, 1950). "Southern Football Notes" . Times Daily - Google News Archive Search . Retrieved January 17, 2018 .
^ "Princeton Surprised: They Defeat Franklin and Marshall With Difficulty" . The Times (Philadelphia) . October 5, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Princeton Defeats Rutgers" . The Daily Times (New Brunswick, NJ) . October 9, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "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 .
^ "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 .
^ "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)
^ "Princeton Outkicks the Crescents" . The Philadelphia Inquirer . October 19, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com . (Attendance: 3,000)
^ "Princeton, 26; Lafayette, 6" . The World (New York) . October 23, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Princeton Scores Against Lehigh" . The Philadelphia Inquirer . October 26, 1890. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "There's Foot-Ball Galore" . The Sunday Herald . November 2, 1890. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Virginians Vanquished: Princeton Wins a Football Match at Baltimore -- Several Players Injured" . The Philadelphia Inquirer . November 2, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "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 .
^ "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 .
^ "Princeton the Winner" . The Inter Ocean . November 16, 1890. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Yale's Blue Kickers Win" . The Sun (New York) . November 28, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com .
^ "Fall of a Crowded Stand" . The Sun (New York) . November 28, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com .
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