American college football season
1889 college football season Total No. of teams 21 Regular season September 28 to December 2 Champion Princeton
The1889 college football season was the season ofAmerican football played among colleges and universities in theUnited States during the 1889–90 academic year.
The1889 Princeton Tigers football team , led by team captainEdgar Allan Poe , compiled a perfect 10–0 record and was recognized as thenational champion by theBillingsley Report ,Helms Athletic Foundation ,Houlgate System ,National Championship Foundation , andParke H. Davis .[ 1]
In the South,Wofford defeatedFurman in the first intercollegiate game played in the state ofSouth Carolina . The game featured no uniforms, no positions, and the rules were formulated before the game.[ 2]
As the popularity of the program increased, new football programs were established in 1889 atIowa ,Syracuse ,[ 3] Washington .
All eleven players selected byCaspar Whitney for thefirst All-America college football team came from the Big Three (Princeton,Yale , andHarvard ). Four of the honorees have been inducted into theCollege Football Hall of Fame : fullbackKnowlton Ames (Princeton), endAmos Alonzo Stagg (Yale), tackleHector Cowan (Princeton), and guardPudge Heffelfinger (Yale).
Conference and program changes [ edit ] School 1888 Conference 1889 Conference Delaware Program established Independent Iowa Hawkeyes Program established Independent Washington Program established Independent
The consensusAll-America team included:
Position Name Height Weight (lbs.) Class Hometown Team QB Edgar Allan Poe Jr. Baltimore, Maryland Princeton HB Roscoe Channing 141 Sr. New York, New York Princeton HB James P. Lee Jr. New York, New York Harvard FB Snake Ames 5'10" 157 Sr. Chicago, Illinois Princeton E Amos Alonzo Stagg Sr. West Orange, New Jersey Yale T Hector Cowan Sr. Hobart, New York Princeton G Pudge Heffelfinger 6'4" 178 So. Minneapolis, Minnesota Yale C William George Sr. Princeton G John Cranston Jr. Sheridan, New York Harvard T Charles O. Gill Sr. Walpole, Massachusetts Yale E Arthur Cumnock Jr. Danielson, Connecticut Harvard
Statistical leaders [ edit ]
Conference standings [ edit ] The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:
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