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

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

Princeton Tigers football

Venues	University Field (1876–1913) Palmer Stadium (1914–96) Princeton University Stadium (1997–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Legacy Bowl Brown Harvard Penn Yale

Culture & lore	First American football game (painting) 1922 Chicago game The Tiger "Princeton Cannon Song" Winged football helmet

People	Head coaches NFL draftees

Seasons	1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 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

National championship seasons in bold

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