1890 Amherst football team
American college football season
| 1890 Amherst football | |
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| Conference | Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association |
| Record | 7–6–1 (3–1 EIFA) |
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| Home stadium | Blake Field |
Seasons ← 1889 1891 → | |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Williams $ | 4 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amherst | 3 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dartmouth | 1 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MIT | 0 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 4 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowdoin | 0 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1890 Amherst football team was an American football team that represented the Amherst College as a member of the Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association (EIFA) during the 1890 college football season.[1] The team compiled an overall record of 7–6–1 with a mark of 3–1 in EIFA play. Amherst was outscored by a total of 185 to 184 on the season.[2] Two of Amherst's losses were to undefeated national champion Harvard. Excluding the two one-sided losses to Harvard, Amherst outscored its opponents, 178 to 47. The team played its home games at Blake Field in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Schedule
| Date | Time | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source | ||
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| October 4 | Williston* |
| W 48–6 | [3] | ||||
| October 9 | Massachusetts* |
| W 52–2 | [4] | ||||
| October 11 | at Harvard* |
| L 6–74 | [5] | ||||
| October 18 | Trinity (CT)* |
| W 12–11 | [6] | ||||
| October 22 | at Wesleyan* | Middletown, CT | L 6–8 | [7] | ||||
| October 25 | Yale* | Amherst, MA | L 0–12 | [8] | ||||
| October 29 | at Trinity (CT)* |
| T 0–0 | [9] | ||||
| November 1 | at MIT | W 38–4 | [10] | |||||
| November 3 | Cornell* | Amherst, MA | W 18–0 | [11] | ||||
| November 8 | Bowdoin | Amherst, MA | W (forfeit) | [12] | ||||
| November 12 | vs. Harvard* | L 0–64 | 500 | [13][14] | ||||
| November 15 | at Williams | Williamstown, MA | L 0–6 | [15] | ||||
| November 19 | 3:15 p.m. | Dartmouth |
| W 4–0 | 800 | [16] | ||
| November 22 | at Springfield YMCA* |
| L 0–20 | 3,000 | [17][18] | |||
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References
- ^ "Bowdoin Admitted". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 4, 1890. p. 7. Retrieved March 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com
. - ^ "1890 Amherst Lord Jeffs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ^ "Williston Scored". The Boston Globe. October 5, 1890. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Amherst Defeats the Aggies". The Boston Globe. October 10, 1890. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Amherst Scored: Fumbling Game on Jarvis Field". The Boston Globe. October 12, 1890. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "By a Close Margin: Only One Point Separates Amherst and Trinity". The Boston Globe. October 19, 1890. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Full of Foot Ball: Game Between Wesleyan and Amherst Stopped by Darkness". The Boston Globe. October 23, 1890. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Yale's Slender Victory Over Amherst". New York Tribune. October 26, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Tie Between Amherst and Trinity". The Boston Globe. October 30, 1890. p. 5.
- ^ "Bedraggled Red and Gray". The Boston Globe. November 2, 1890. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Very Little Punting". The Boston Globe. November 4, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Couldn't Play On Crutches". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 9, 1890. p. 6. Retrieved March 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
- ^ "Rush, Run and Punt: Harvard Science Against Amherst Beef". The Boston Globe. November 13, 1890. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Harvard And Yale—The Crimson Eleven Shown Yesterday at Springfield in the Amherst Game". The Meriden Daily Journal. Meriden, Connecticut. November 13, 1890. p. 2. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
- ^ "Williams Wins Close Game". The Boston Globe. November 16, 1890. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Amherst Did Them Up". The Boston Globe. November 20, 1890. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Stagg's Eleven Won". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 22, 1890. p. 6. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
- ^ "Yale Whipped By Harvard". The Sun. New York, New York. November 23, 1890. p. 8. Retrieved March 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
