1889 Amherst football team
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| Conference | Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association |
| Record | 3–5–2 (1–2–1 EIFA) |
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| Home stadium | Blake Field |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dartmouth $ | 4 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MIT | 2 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Williams | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amherst | 1 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 5 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stevens | 0 | – | 3 | – | 0 | 1 | – | 10 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1889 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 1889 college football season. The team compiled an overall record of 3–5–2 and was outscored by a total of 198 to 173.[1]
Schedule
[edit]| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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| October 16 | at Wesleyan* | Middletown, CT | L 0–39 | ||
| October 19 | at Yale* | L 0–42 | |||
| October 23 | at Williston* | Easthampton, MA | W 64–0 | [2] | |
| October 26 | MIT |
| L 9–10 | [3] | |
| October 30 | at Dartmouth | Hanover, NH | L 6–60 | 600 | [4] |
| November 9 | Williams |
| T 10–10 | [5] | |
| November 12 | Yale* | Amherst, MA | L 0–32 | [6] | |
| November 16 | Rochester* | Amherst, MA | W 72–0 | [7] | |
| November 20 | at Stevens |
| W 12–5 | [8] | |
| November 21 | at Columbia* | New York, NY | T 0–0 | [9] | |
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References
[edit]- ^ "1889 Amherst Lord Jeffs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ^ "Amherst 64, Williston 0". The Boston Globe. October 24, 1889. p. 3.
- ^ "Techs Defeat Amherst". The Boston Globe. October 27, 1889. p. 2.
- ^ "Dartmouth Defeats Amherst". The Morning Journal-Courier. October 31, 1889. p. 3.
- ^ "Amherst and Williams Tie". Buffalo Evening News. November 11, 1889. p. 2.
- ^ "Yale Plays The Return Game With Amherst And Wins". The New York Times. November 13, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Amherst Extinguishes Rochester". The Times. November 17, 1889. p. 3.
- ^ "Amherst Kicked Well". The Boston Globe. November 21, 1889. p. 1.
- ^ "A Game of Football". The Scranton Republican. Scranton, Pennsylvania. November 22, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved May 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com
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- ^ "1889 Amherst Lord Jeffs Football Schedule and Results". College-Football at Sports-Reference.com. College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
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