1891 Trinity Blue and White football team

1891 Trinity Blue and White football
Southern champion
Conference	Independent
1891 record	3–0
Head coach	No coach
Captain	Tom Daniels

The 1891 Trinity Blue and White football team represented Trinity College (today known as Duke University) in the 1891 college football season. The team went 3–0 and beat its opponents by a combined score of 122 to 4.^[1] The team claimed a Southern championship.^[2]^[3]

The 1891 team was led by senior player and captain Tom Daniels, who later played for Auburn University.^[4]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance
November 14	at Furman	Columbia, SC	W 96–0
November 20	at North Carolina	Chapel Hill, NC (Victory Bell)	W 6–4
November 28	vs. Virginia	Richmond, VA	W 20–0	1,200

Source:^[5]^[6]

References

↑ Art Chansky. Duke - Carolina - the Blue Blood Rivalry the Master collection. p. 3.
↑ "Champions of the South regardless of conference affiliation".
↑ Jim L. Sumner (1990). "John Franklin Crowell, Methodism, and the Football Controversy at Trinity College, 1887-1894" (PDF). Journal of Sport History. 17 (1).
↑ Tim Pyatt (October 1, 2009). "Retrospective: September-October 2009". Retrieved February 24, 2015.
↑ "November 14, 1891" (PDF). Duke Blue Devils football media guide. 2008. p. 158. Retrieved February 24, 2015.
↑ "Trinity on Top". The State Chronicle. December 1, 1891. p. 4. Retrieved March 2, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

Duke Blue Devils football

Venues	Wallace Wade Stadium (1929–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games North Carolina (Victory Bell)

Culture & lore	Blue Devil "Fight! Blue Devils, Fight!" Blue and White (Duke fight song) Marching band

People	Head coaches NFL draftees Statistical leaders

Seasons	1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Independent Southern football champions

Virginia (1889)
Virginia (1890)
Trinity (1891)
North Carolina or Virginia (1892)
Virginia (1893)
Virginia (1894)
Virginia (1895)
Virginia (1896)
Virginia (1897)
Virginia (1900)
Gallaudet or Virginia (1901)
Virginia (1902)
Georgetown or Kentucky U. (1903)
Georgetown (1904)
VPI (1905)
NC A&M (1907)
Virginia or George Washington (1908)
VPI (1909)
Centre, Georgetown or NC A&M (1910)
Georgetown (1911)
Georgia Tech (1915)
Centre (1924)
William & Mary (1926)

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