1891 college football season

Total # of teams

26^[1]

Number of bowls

College football seasons
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The 1891 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Yale as having been selected national champions.^[2]

Conference and program changes

School	1890 Conference	1891 Conference
Case football	Program established	Independent
Sewanee Tigers	Program Established	Independent
Tennessee Volunteers	Program Established	Independent
West Virginia Mountaineers	Program established	Independent

Awards and honors

All-Americans

Main article: 1891 College Football All-America Team

The consensus All-America team included:

Position	Name	Height	Weight (lbs.)	Class	Hometown	Team
QB	Philip King	5'6"	154	So.	Washington, D. C.	Princeton
HB	Everett J. Lake			Sr.	Woodstock, Connecticut	Harvard
HB	Bum McClung	5'10"	165	Sr.	Knoxville, Tennessee	Yale
FB	Sheppard Homans, Jr.			Sr.	Englewood, New Jersey	Princeton
E	Frank Hinkey	5'9"	150	Fr.	Tonawanda, New York	Yale
T	Wallace Winter			Jr.	Hudson, Wisconsin	Yale
G	Pudge Heffelfinger	6'4"	178	Sr.	Minneapolis, Minnesota	Yale
C	John Adams			Sr.		Penn
G	Jesse Riggs			Sr.	Baltimore, Maryland	Princeton
T	Marshall Newell	5'7"	168	So.	Great Barrington, Massachusetts	Harvard
E	John A. Hartwell			Sr.	Sussex, New Jersey	Yale

Statistical leaders

Player scoring most points: Bernard Trafford, Harvard, 270

Conference standings

1891 CFA football standings
	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Colorado Mines $		–		–		5	–	1	–	1

$ – Conference champion

1891 college football records
	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Yale		–		13	–	0	–	0
Harvard		–		13	–	1	–	0
Stanford		–		3	–	1	–	0
Washington		–		1	–	1	–	0
California		–		0	–	1	–	0
USC		–		1	–	2	–	0
Colorado		–		1	–	4	–	0
Columbia		–		1	–	5	–	0

References

↑ http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cf1891.htm
↑ Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved 2009-10-16.

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