1889 Amherst football team

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]

1889 Amherst football
ConferenceEastern Intercollegiate Football Association
Record3–5–2 (1–2–1 EIFA)
Head coach
  • None
Home stadiumBlake Field
1889 Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Dartmouth $ 4 0 07 1 0
MIT 2 2 03 3 0
Williams 1 1 14 5 1
Amherst 1 2 13 5 2
Stevens 0 3 01 10 0
  • $ Conference champion

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 16at Wesleyan*Middletown, CTL 0–39
October 19at Yale*L 0–42
October 23at Williston*Easthampton, MAW 64–0[2]
October 26MIT
  • Blake Field
  • Amherst, MA
L 9–10[3]
October 30at DartmouthHanover, NHL 6–60600[4]
November 9Williams
T 10–10[5]
November 12Yale*Amherst, MAL 0–32[6]
November 16Rochester*Amherst, MAW 72–0[7]
November 20at Stevens
W 12–5[8]
November 21at Columbia*New York, NYT 0–0[9]
  • *Non-conference game

[10]

References

  1. "1889 Amherst Lord Jeffs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  2. "Amherst 64, Williston 0". The Boston Globe. October 24, 1889. p. 3.
  3. "Techs Defeat Amherst". The Boston Globe. October 27, 1889. p. 2.
  4. "Dartmouth Defeats Amherst". The Morning Journal-Courier. October 31, 1889. p. 3.
  5. "Amherst and Williams Tie". Buffalo Evening News. November 11, 1889. p. 2.
  6. "Yale Plays The Return Game With Amherst And Wins". The New York Times. November 13, 1889. p. 1 via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Amherst Extinguishes Rochester". The Times. November 17, 1889. p. 3.
  8. "Amherst Kicked Well". The Boston Globe. November 21, 1889. p. 1.
  9. "A Game of Football". The Scranton Republican. Scranton, Pennsylvania. November 22, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved May 21, 2020 via Newspapers.com open access.
  10. "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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