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1890 college football season
1890 Harvard Crimson
Champion(s) Harvard
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The 1890 college football season was the season of American football played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1890–91 academic year.

The 1890 Harvard Crimson football team compiled a perfect 11–0 record, outscored opponents by a total of 555 to 12, and was recognized as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis. [1]

In the Midwest, the Baker Methodists defeated the Kansas Jayhawks by a score of 22–9 in the first college football game played in Kansas. [2] In the South, Vanderbilt Commodores defeated Nashville (Peabody), 40–0, in the first college football game played in Tennessee. [3]

As the popularity of the sport increased, several notable programs were established in 1890, including Ohio State, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Vanderbilt.

All eleven players selected by Caspar Whitney for the 1890 All-America college football team came from the Big Three (Harvard Princeton, and Yale). Three of the honorees have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: Harvard's great tackle Marshall "Ma" Newell, Yale's guard Pudge Heffelfinger, and Yale's halfback Thomas "Bum" McClung.

Conference and program changes

School 1889 Conference 1890 Conference
Butler Bulldogs Independent IIAA
Colorado Silver and Gold Program established Independent
DePauw Tigers Independent IIAA
Earlham Hustlin' Quakers Independent IIAA
Hanover Panthers Independent IIAA
Illinois Illini Program Established Independent
Indiana State Normal Sycamores Independent IIAA
Indiana Hoosiers Independent IIAA
Kansas Jayhawks Program Established Independent
Missouri Tigers Program Established Independent
Nashville Program Established Independent
Nebraska Old Gold Knights Program Established Independent
Purdue Boilermakers Independent IIAA
Rose Polytechnic Engineers Independent IIAA
Vanderbilt football Program Established Independent
Wabash Little Giants Independent IIAA
Western Reserve football Program established Independent

Awards and honors

All-Americans

Main article: 1890 College Football All-America Team

The consensus All-America team included:

Position Name Height Weight (lbs.) Class Hometown Team
QB Dudley Dean Sr. Lake Village, New Hampshire Harvard
HB Bum McClung 5'10" 165 Jr. Knoxville, Tennessee Yale
HB John J. Corbett Fr. Boston, Massachusetts Harvard
FB Sheppard Homans, Jr. Jr. Englewood, New Jersey Princeton
E Frank Hallowell So. Medford, Massachusetts Harvard
T Marshall Newell 5'7" 168 Fr. Great Barrington, Massachusetts Harvard
G Pudge Heffelfinger 6'4" 178 Jr. Minneapolis, Minnesota Yale
C John Cranston Sr. Sheridan, New York Harvard
G Jesse Riggs Jr. Baltimore, Maryland Princeton
T William Rhodes Sr. Cleveland, Ohio Yale
E Ralph Warren Jr. Montclair, New Jersey Princeton

Statistical leaders

  • Player scoring most points: Philip King, Princeton, 145

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1890 Colorado Football Association standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Colorado Mines $ 3 – 0 – 0 6 – 0 – 0
Denver 2 – 1 – 0 3 – 2 – 0
Colorado College 1 – 2 – 0 2 – 3 – 0
Colorado 0 – 3 – 0 1 – 6 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1890 Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Williams $ 4 – 0 – 0 8 – 2 – 0
Amherst 3 – 1 – 0 7 – 6 – 1
Dartmouth 1 – 2 – 0 4 – 4 – 0
MIT 0 – 2 – 0 3 – 4 – 2
Bowdoin 0 – 3 – 0 4 – 4 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion
1890 Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Butler $ 3 – 0 – 1 3 – 0 – 1
Purdue 2 – 1 – 0 3 – 3 – 0
Wabash 0 – 3 – 0 0 – 3 – 0
  • $ – Conference champion

Independents

1890 Eastern college football independents records
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
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
1890 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Nebraska   –   2 – 0 – 0
Washington University   –   2 – 0 – 0
Minnesota   –   5 – 1 – 1
Michigan   –   4 – 1 – 0
Northwestern   –   4 – 1 – 1
Missouri   –   2 – 1 – 0
Cincinnati   –   2 – 1 – 1
Lake Forest   –   5 – 3 – 0
Baker   –   1 – 1 – 0
Iowa   –   1 – 1 – 0
Illinois   –   1 – 2 – 0
Kansas   –   1 – 2 – 0
Ohio Wesleyan   –   1 – 3 – 0
Wisconsin   –   1 – 3 – 0
Ohio State   –   1 – 4 – 0
Doane   –   0 – 1 – 0
Washburn   –   0 – 1 – 0
1890 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Furman   –   2 – 0 – 0
Vanderbilt   –   1 – 0 – 0
Virginia   –   5 – 2 – 0
Navy   –   5 – 1 – 1
Delaware   –   3 – 2 – 0
Georgetown   –   3 – 3 – 1
Columbian   –   2 – 3 – 0
Johns Hopkins   –   0 – 1 – 0
Nashville   –   0 – 1 – 0
Trinity (NC)   –   0 – 1 – 0
Richmond   –   0 – 3 – 0
1890 Far West college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
California   –   4 – 0 – 0
Washington   –   0 – 1 – 0
Colorado   –   0 – 4 – 0

References

  1. ^ "National Poll Champions" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. National Collegiate Athletic Association. 2017. p. 110. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  2. ^ Evans, Harold (August 1940). "College Football in Kansas". Kansas Historical Quarterly. pp. 285–311. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
  3. ^ John Majors. "College Football". Tennessee Historical Society. Retrieved November 29, 2006.


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