1890 Penn Quakers football team

American college football season

1890 Penn Quakers football
Conference	Independent
Record	11–3
Head coach	Woody Wagenhorst (3rd season)
Captain	Ted Church
Seasons ← 1889 1891 →

1890 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Harvard		–		11	–	0	–	0
Yale		–		13	–	1	–	0
Princeton		–		11	–	1	–	1
Franklin & Marshall		–		8	–	2	–	0
Navy		–		5	–	1	–	1
Penn		–		11	–	3	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		2	–	1	–	0
Cornell		–		7	–	4	–	0
Syracuse		–		7	–	4	–	0
Springfield YMCA		–		5	–	3	–	0
Lehigh		–		6	–	4	–	0
Delaware		–		3	–	2	–	0
Rutgers		–		5	–	5	–	1
Penn State		–		2	–	2	–	0
Colgate		–		1	–	1	–	0
Wesleyan		–		5	–	6	–	0
Tufts		–		2	–	3	–	0
Western Univ. Penn		–		1	–	2	–	0
Lafayette		–		2	–	5	–	1
Brown		–		2	–	5	–	0
Bucknell		–		1	–	4	–	1
Fordham		–		1	–	3	–	1
Massachusetts		–		1	–	4	–	0
Columbia		–		1	–	5	–	1
Army		–		0	–	1	–	0
Geneva		–		0	–	1	–	0

The 1890 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1890 college football season. The Quakers finished with an 11–3 record in their third year under head coach E. O. Wagenhorst. Significant games included victories over Rutgers (16–4 and 20–12), Penn State (20–0), and Lehigh (8–0 and 17–14), and losses to Princeton (6–0) and Yale (60–0). The 1890 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 259 to 134.^[1]^[2] No Penn players were honored on the 1890 College Football All-America Team.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 1	at Swarthmore	Whittier Field Swarthmore, PA	W 10–0		^[3]
October 4	Rutgers	University Athletic Grounds Philadelphia, PA	W 16–4		^[4]
October 11	Penn State	Philadelphia, PA	W 20–0		^[5]
October 15	at Princeton	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 0–18	600	^[6]
October 18	Lehigh	University Athletic Grounds Philadelphia, PA	W 8–0	2,500	^[7]
October 22	at Columbia	Brotherhood Park New York, NY	W 18–0		^[8]
October 25	Franklin & Marshall	University Athletic Grounds Philadelphia PA	W 28–0		^[9]
October 31	vs. Virginia	Capitol Park Washington, DC	W 72–0	> 1,000	^[10]
November 5	Schuylkill Navy	University Athletic Grounds Philadelphia, PA	W 34–10		^[11]
November 8	Princeton	University Athletic Grounds Philadelphia, PA	L 0–6	10,000	^[12]
November 15	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 0–60		^[13]
November 22	at Lehigh	Bethlehem, PA	W 17–14		^[14]
November 26	vs. Wesleyan	Washington Park New York, NY	W 16–10	3,000	^[15]
December 13	vs. Rutgers	Madison Square Garden New York, NY	W 20–12	4,000–5,000	^[16]

References

^ "1890 Pennsylvania Quakers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
^ "Pennsylvania Yearly Results (1890-1894)". College Football Data Warehouse. David DeLassus. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
^ "Collegiate Foot-Ball: In the Opening Game the University Defeats Swarthmore". The Times (Philadelphia). October 2, 1890. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "One for the 'Varsity: In the Initial Game They Defeat Rutgers". The Times (Philadelphia). October 5, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Season of Football: The University of Pennsylvania Downs State College". The Times (Philadelphia). October 12, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "A Hard Football Game: Princeton Defeats Pennsylvania by a Score of 18 to 0". The World (New York). October 16, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Lehigh Men Outplayed: They Fail to Score a Point Against the University". The Times (Philadelphia). October 19, 1890. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "The Columbias Beaten: A Great Victory for the Wearers of the Red and Blue". The Times (Philadelphia). October 23, 1890. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Football Kickers: The University Easily Defeats Franklin and Mashall". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 26, 1890. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Pennsylvania Victorious". The New York Times. November 1, 1890. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Pennsylvania Wins Again: They Easily Defeat the Strong Schuylkill Team". The Times (Philadelphia). November 6, 1890. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Princeton's Close Call: She Had a Hard Fight to beat University of Pennsylvania 6 to 0". The Sun (New York). November 9, 1890. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Yale Victorious: The "Varsity" Boys Meet With a Waterloo in New Haven". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 16, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "The 'Varsity Wins Again: In a Well-Played Game They Defeat Lehigh". The Times (Philadelphia). November 23, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Pennsylvania Wins: The University Students Defeat Wesleyan by a Score of 16 to 10". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 27, 1890. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Many Kinds of Football: Illustrated at the Madison Square Garden Games". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 14, 1890. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.

v t e Penn Quakers football
Venues	Franklin Field (1895–present)
Bowls & rivalries	1917 Rose Bowl Cornell Harvard Princeton
Culture & lore	The Penn Quaker "Fight on, Pennsylvania!" Marching band 1922 Alabama game
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
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