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] 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] 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
Location
Result
Attendance
Source
October 4
Franklin & Marshall University Field , Princeton, NJ W 33–16[7]
October 8
Rutgers (rivalry )University Field, Princeton, NJ
W 27–0300
[8]
October 11
at Orange Athletic Club
Tuxedo Park, New York T 0–0500
[9]
October 15
Penn (rivalry )University Field, Princeton, NJ
W 18–0600
[10]
October 18
at Crescent Athletic Club
Washington Park , Brooklyn 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
Analostan Island , Washington, D.C. W 60–03,000-4,000
[15]
November 1
vs. Virginia
Oriole Park , Baltimore W 115–0[16]
November 4
at Columbia
Berkeley Oval, New York, NY
W 85–01,000
[17]
November 8
at Penn (rivalry )
University Grounds, Philadelphia
W 6–010,000
[18]
November 15
vs. [[{{{school}}}|Wesleyan]]
Eastern Park , BrooklynW 46–4500
[19]
November 27
vs. Yale (rivalry )
Eastern Park, Brooklyn
L 0–3210,000
[20] [21]
References [ ]
↑ "1890 Princeton Tigers Schedule and Results" . SR/College Football . Sports Reference LLC. https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/princeton/1890-schedule.html . Retrieved February 27, 2017 .↑ "All-Time Princeton Results" . Princeton University. http://goprincetontigers.com/documents/2017/7/7//All_Time_FB_Results.pdf . Retrieved January 2, 2018 .↑ "Award Winners" . NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4. http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2012/Awards.pdf .↑ Grantland Rice (1952-04-03). "The Sportlight". Newport Daily News. ↑ Kevin Edds (June 7, 2013). "Lambeth: Virginia's Father of Athletics" . http://virginia.sportswar.com/article/2013/06/07/lambeth-virginias-father-of-athletics/ . Retrieved April 9, 2015 . ↑ Newman, Zipp (4 December 1950). "Southern Football Notes" . https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19501204&id=ggUsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tsYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2741,5441535&hl=en . Retrieved 17 January 2018 . ↑ "Princeton Surprised: They Defeat Franklin and Marshall With Difficulty" . The Times (Philadelphia) : p. 3. October 5, 1890. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16491578/princeton_surprised_they_defeat/ .↑ "Princeton Defeats Rutgers" . The Daily Times (New Brunswick, NJ) : p. 3. October 9, 1890. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16491623/princeton_defeats_rutgers/ .↑ "Football Yesterday: The Princeton and Orange A. C. Teams Make a Grand Fight" . The Sun (New York) : p. 5. October 12, 1890. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16491682/football_yesterday_the_princeton_and/ .↑ "A Hard Football Game: Princeton Defeats Pennsylvania by a Score of 18 to 0" . The World (New York) : p. 1. October 16, 1890. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16491723/a_hard_football_game_princeton_defeats/ .↑ "Princeton Wins Handily: The Crescent Football Team Defeated at Brooklyn" . The New York Times : p. 3. October 19, 1890. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16485707/princeton_wins_handily_the_crescent/ .↑ "Princeton Outkicks the Crescents" . The Philadelphia Inquirer : p. 3. October 19, 1890. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16491758/princeton_outkicks_the_crescents/ .↑ "Princeton, 26; Lafayette, 6" . The World (New York) : p. 3. October 23, 1890. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16491803/princeton_26_lafayette_6/ .↑ "Princeton Scores Against Lehigh" . The Philadelphia Inquirer : p. 2. October 26, 1890. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16491860/princeton_scores_agaisnt_lehigh/ .↑ "There's Foot-Ball Galore" . The Sunday Herald : p. 5. November 2, 1890. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16486414/theres_football_galore/ .↑ "Virginians Vanquished: Princeton Wins a Football Match at Baltimore -- Several Players Injured" . The Philadelphia Inquirer : p. 3. November 2, 1890. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16486013/virginians_vanquished_princeton_wins_a/ .↑ "The "Black and Orange" to the Front: Princeton Outkicks the Columbia Boys by a Score of 85 to 0" . The Sun (New York) : p. 8. November 5, 1890. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16486193/the_black_and_orange_to_the_front/ .↑ "Princeton's Close Call: She Had a Hard Fight to beat University of Pennsylvania 6 to 0" . The Sun (New York) : p. 8. November 9, 1890. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16491997/princetons_close_call/ .↑ "Princeton the Winner" . The Inter Ocean : p. 2. November 16, 1890. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16485829/princeton_the_winner/ .↑ "Yale's Blue Kickers Win" . The Sun (New York) : p. 1. November 28, 1890. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16350470/yales_blue_kickers_win/ .↑ "Fall of a Crowded Stand" . The Sun (New York) : p. 1. November 28, 1890. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16350562/fall_of_a_crowded_stand/ .
