1889 Amherst football team

1889 Amherst football
Conference	Independent
Record	3–5–2
Head coach	None
Home stadium	Blake Field

1889 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					10	–	0	–	0
Massachusetts			–					2	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					15	–	1	–	0
Harvard			–					9	–	2	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					5	–	1	–	1
Dickinson			–					4	–	1	–	1
Navy			–					4	–	1	–	1
Tufts			–					3	–	1	–	0
Lehigh			–					8	–	3	–	2
Cornell			–					8	–	4	–	0
Penn			–					7	–	6	–	0
Brown			–					2	–	2	–	0
Penn State			–					2	–	2	–	0
Delaware			–					1	–	1	–	1
Wesleyan			–					5	–	7	–	1
Bucknell			–					2	–	3	–	1
Lafayette			–					3	–	4	–	2
Columbia			–					2	–	7	–	2
Fordham			–					1	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	4	–	0
NYU			–					0	–	2	–	0

The 1889 Amherst football team was an American football team that represented the Amherst College during the 1889 college football season. The team compiled a 3–5–2 record and was outscored by a total of 198 to 173.

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 16	at Wesleyan	Middletown, CT	L 0–39
October 19	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 0–42
October 23	at Williston	Easthampton, MA	W 64–0
October 26	MIT	Blake Field Amherst, MA	L 9–10
October 30	at Dartmouth	Hanover, NH	L 6–60	600
November 9	Williams	Blake Field Amherst, MA (rivalry)	T 10–10
November 12	Yale	Amherst, MA	L 0–32
November 16	Rochester	Amherst,MA	W 72–0
November 20	at Stevens	St. George cricket grounds Hoboken, NJ	W 12–5
November 21	at Columbia	New York, NY	T 0–0