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1889 Princeton Tigers football
National champion
ConferenceIndependent
Record10–0
Head coach
  • None
CaptainEdgar Allan Poe
Seasons
← 1888
1890 →
1889 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   10 – 0 – 0
Massachusetts   –   2 – 0 – 0
Yale   –   15 – 1 – 0
Harvard   –   9 – 2 – 0
Franklin & Marshall   –   5 – 1 – 1
Dickinson   –   4 – 1 – 1
Navy   –   4 – 1 – 1
Tufts   –   3 – 1 – 0
Lehigh   –   8 – 3 – 2
Cornell   –   8 – 4 – 0
Penn   –   7 – 6 – 0
Brown   –   2 – 2 – 0
Penn State   –   2 – 2 – 0
Delaware   –   1 – 1 – 1
Wesleyan   –   5 – 7 – 1
Bucknell   –   2 – 3 – 1
Lafayette   –   3 – 4 – 2
Columbia   –   2 – 7 – 2
Fordham   –   1 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 4 – 0
NYU   –   0 – 2 – 0

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]

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] Ames and Cowan were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.[6][7]

Schedule

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DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5LehighPrinceton, NJW 16–0[8][9]
October 10at LehighBethlehem, PAW 16–4[10]
October 192:40 p.m.StevensPrinceton, NJW 49–01,000[11]
October 263:05 p.m.at PennPhiladelphia, PA (rivalry)W 72–4[12]
November 23:00 p.m.vs. Wesleyan
W 98–0Several hundred[13]
November 53:00 p.m.at Columbia
W 71–0[14][15]
November 162:45 p.m.at Harvard
W 41–15[16][17][18]
November 23Orange Athletic ClubPrinceton, NJW 54–6[19]
November 282:30 p.m.vs. Yale
W 10–0>25,000[20][21]
November 30vs. Columbia Athletic ClubWashington, DCW 57–0

References

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  1. ^ "1889 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. ^ "National Poll Champions" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. National Collegiate Athletic Association. 2017. p. 110. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  4. ^ "Championships - Tigers Football". princetontigersfootball.com. Princeton University. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  5. ^ "Football Award Winners" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). 2016. p. 6. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
  6. ^ "Knowlton Ames". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  7. ^ "Hector Cowan". National Football Foundation. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  8. ^ "Princeton's Opening Day". The Philadelphia Times. October 6, 1889. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "All on Princeton's Side". The Boston Globe. October 6, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Foot-ball At Bethlehem". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 11, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved August 9, 2024 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  11. ^ "Princeton's Big Score: Carless Playing Allows Them to Run It Up Rapidly". The Philadelphia Times. October 20, 1889. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Princeton's Victory: They Have an Easy Time with the Pennsylvania Lads". The Philadelphia Times. October 27, 1889. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Football in the Rain: Wesleyan Beaten by Princeton, 93 to Nothing". The Sun. New York, N.Y. November 3, 1889. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "A Goose Egg for Columbia: The Princeton Team Has some Fun with the New Yorkers". The Sun. New York, N.Y. November 6, 1889. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Advertisement for Election Day Football". The Sun. New York, N.Y. November 5, 1889. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Jersey Sand". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 17, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  17. ^ "Jersey Sand (continued)". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 17, 1889. p. 4. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  18. ^ "Harvard Went To Pieces". The New York Times. November 17, 1889. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "Princeton Easily Defeats Orange". The Sun. November 24, 1889. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "Princeton Wins Gloriously". The Sun (New York). November 29, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ "Princeton Is Champion: How She Won the Great Foot-Ball Game at New York". The Hartford Courant. November 29, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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