1890 college football season

1890 Harvard team

Total # of teams

18^[1]

Number of bowls

College football seasons
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The 1890 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Harvard as having been selected national champions.^[2]

On November 22, college football was first played in the state of Kansas when the Baker Methodists defeated the Kansas Jayhawks by a score of 22–9.^[3] On November 27, college football was first played in the state of Tennessee when the Vanderbilt Commodores defeated Nashville (Peabody) 40–0.^[4]

Conference and program changes

School	1889 Conference	1890 Conference
Butler Bulldogs	Independent	IIAA
DePauw Tigers	Independent	IIAA
Earlham Hustlin' Quakers	Independent	IIAA
Hanover Panthers	Independent	IIAA
Indiana State Normal Sycamores	Independent	IIAA
Indiana Hoosiers	Independent	IIAA
Kansas Jayhawks	Program Established	Independent
Nashville	Program Established	Independent
Nebraska Old Gold Knights	Program Established	Independent
Purdue Boilermakers	Independent	IIAA
Rose Polytechnic Engineers	Independent	IIAA
Vanderbilt football	Program Established	Independent
Wabash Little Giants	Independent	IIAA

Awards and honors

All-Americans

Main article: 1890 College Football All-America Team

The consensus All-America team included:

Position	Name	Height	Weight (lbs.)	Class	Hometown	Team
QB	Dudley Dean			Sr.	Lake Village, New Hampshire	Harvard
HB	Bum McClung	5'10"	165	Jr.	Knoxville, Tennessee	Yale
HB	John J. Corbett			Fr.	Boston, Massachusetts	Harvard
FB	Sheppard Homans, Jr.			Jr.	Englewood, New Jersey	Princeton
E	Frank Hallowell			So.	Medford, Massachusetts	Harvard
T	Marshall Newell	5'7"	168	Fr.	Great Barrington, Massachusetts	Harvard
G	Pudge Heffelfinger	6'4"	178	Jr.	Minneapolis, Minnesota	Yale
C	John Cranston			Sr.	Sheridan, New York	Harvard
G	Jesse Riggs			Jr.	Baltimore, Maryland	Princeton
T	William Rhodes			Sr.	Cleveland, Ohio	Yale
E	Ralph Warren			Jr.	Montclair, New Jersey	Princeton

Statistical leaders

Player scoring most points: Philip King, Princeton, 145

References

↑ http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cf1890.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.
↑ Evans, Harold (August 1940). "College Football in Kansas". Kansas Historical Quarterly. pp. 285–311. Retrieved September 11, 2012.
↑ John Majors. "College Football". Tennessee Historical Society. Retrieved 2006-11-29.

NCAA football seasons

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NCAA Division I-A/FBS	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

NCAA Division I-AA/FCS	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

NCAA Division II	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

NCAA Division III	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

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