1889 Princeton Tigers football team

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1889
Edgar Allan Poe
Seasons
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

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

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

    References

    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.
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