1890 Iowa Hawkeyes football team

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1890 Iowa Hawkeyes football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–1
Head coach
  • None
Home stadiumIowa Field
Seasons
← 1889
1891 →
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

The 1890 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the

Iowa Wesleyan, who accepted, under the terms that the game be played in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.[1]

Fifteen hundred fans, including John Marshall Harlan and Robert Todd Lincoln, were in attendance for the Thanksgiving Day game.[1] Using rules that made touchdowns worth four points, the Hawkeyes easily won the game in a rout, 91–0.[1] The Hawkeyes scored 19 touchdowns and five goals after touchdown while A.G. Smith kicked the first field goal in school history.[2] Today, the game still stands as Iowa's third-largest margin of victory in school history.[3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
October 18
Iowa College
L 6–14
October 18Iowa Medical
  • Iowa Field
  • Iowa City, IA
L 10–22
November 27at
Iowa Wesleyan
W 91–0

Did not count against Iowa's record.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Lamb, D and McGrane, B, p. 3.
  2. ^ Lamb, D and McGrane, B, p. 4.
  3. ^ "Largest Margins". HawkeyeSports.com. Archived from the original on December 9, 2007. Retrieved August 9, 2007.