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1890 Princeton Tigers football team

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Conference
  
Independent

Head coach
  
No coach

1890 record
  
12–1–1

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.

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. 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."

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1890 Princeton Tigers football team Wikipedia