1890 Princeton Tigers football team

1890 Princeton Tigers football
Conference Independent
1890 record 12–1–1
Head coach No coach
Captain Edgar Allan Poe

The 1890 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1890 college football season. The team finished with a 12–1–1 record. The Tigers recorded nine shutouts and outscored opponents by a combined total of 494 to 63. The team's sole loss was by a 32–0 score against Yale.[1]

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.[2] In 1952, 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."[3]

References

  1. "Princeton Yearly Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  2. "Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. 2012. pp. 2–4.
  3. Grantland Rice (1952-04-03). "The Sportlight". Newport Daily News.
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