1889 Princeton Tigers football team

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The 1889 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University as an independent during the 1889 college football season. The team compiled a perfect 10–0 record, shut out six of ten opponents, and outscored all opponents by a total of 484 to 29.[1] The team captain and quarterback was Edgar Allan Poe, the second cousin of his namesake, the writer Edgar Allan Poe.[2]

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1889 Princeton Tigers football
National champion
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–0
Head coach
  • None
CaptainEdgar Allan Poe
Seasons
← 1888
1890 â†’
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1889 Eastern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton â€“ 10–0–0
Massachusetts â€“ 2–0–0
Yale â€“ 15–1–0
Harvard â€“ 9–2–0
Franklin & Marshall â€“ 5–1–1
Dickinson â€“ 4–1–1
Navy â€“ 4–1–1
Tufts â€“ 3–1–0
Lehigh â€“ 8–3–2
Cornell â€“ 8–4–0
Penn â€“ 7–6–0
Brown â€“ 2–2–0
Penn State â€“ 2–2–0
Wesleyan â€“ 5–7–1
Bucknell â€“ 2–3–1
Lafayette â€“ 3–4–2
Columbia â€“ 2–7–2
Fordham â€“ 1–3–0
Rutgers â€“ 1–4–0
NYU â€“ 0–2–0
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There was no contemporaneous system in 1889 for determining a national champion. However, Princeton was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[3] It was Princeton's 15th national championship.[4]

Five players from the 1889 Princeton team were selected by Caspar Whitney for the first All-America college football team: quarterback Edgar Allan Poe; halfback Roscoe Channing; fullback Knowlton "Snake" Ames; tackle Hector Cowan; and center William George.[5] Three more Princeton players—guard Hugh Janeway, end Ben "Sport" Donnelly, and halfback J. S. Black—were among Whitney's eight "substitute" selections.[6] Ames and Cowan were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.[7][8]

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5LehighPrinceton, NJW 16–0[9][10]
October 10at LehighBethlehem, PAW 16–4[11]
October 192:40 p.m.StevensPrinceton, NJW 49–01,000[12]
October 263:05 p.m.at PennPhiladelphia, PA (rivalry)W 72–4[13]
November 23:00 p.m.vs. Wesleyan
W 98–0Several hundred[14]
November 53:00 p.m.at Columbia
W 71–0[15][16]
November 162:45 p.m.at HarvardW 41–15[17][18][19]
November 23Orange Athletic ClubPrinceton, NJW 54–6[20]
November 282:30 p.m.vs. Yale
W 10–0>25,000[21][22]
December 73:30 p.m.vs. Washington, DC[a]W 57–02,500[24][25]
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Roster

Notes

  1. An ad-hoc team "picked from the best players of the District".[23]

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