1889 Stevens football team

1889 Stevens football
ConferenceEastern Intercollegiate Football Association
Record2–10 (1–3 EIFA)
Head coach
  • None
Home stadiumSt. George's Cricket Grounds
1889 Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association standings
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Dartmouth $4–0–07–1–0
Amherst2–1–14–4–2
Williams1–2–14–6–1
Boston Tech1–3–02–6–0
Stevens1–3–02–10–0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • Boston Tech defeated Amherst on October 26, 10–9, but Amherst protested the final touchdown of the game. At the conference's meeting on December 18, Amherst was awarded victory by a score of 9–6. Williams forfeited a game to Stevens that was scheduled to be played on November 25.

The 1889 Stevens football team represented Stevens Institute of Technology as a member of the Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association (EIFA) during the 1889 college football season. Stevens compiled an overall record of 2–10 with a mark of 1–3 in conference play, tying for fourth place at the bottom of the EIFA standings.[1] The team played home games at St. George's Cricket Grounds in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 5at Harvard*
L 4–28[2]
October 12at Orange Athletic Club*L 0–6
October 192:40 p.m.at Princeton*Princeton, NJL 0–491,000[3]
October 26Trinity (CT)*
W 5–0[4]
October 31vs. Harvard*
L 0–30[5]
November 2at Cornell*Ithaca, NYL 4–39[6]
November 93:00 p.m.at Boston Tech
L 10–16[7]
November 143:00 p.m.Columbia*
  • St. George's Cricket Grounds
  • Hoboken, NJ
L 6–12[8][9]
November 163:00 p.m.at Trinity (CT)*
L 0–12[10][11]
November 20Amherst
  • St. George Cricket Grounds
  • Hoboken, NJ
L 5–12400[12]
November 25WilliamsHoboken, NJW (forfeit)[13]
November 2811:00 a.m.Dartmouth
  • St. George Cricket Grounds
  • Hoboken, NJ
L 5–181,000[14]
  • *Non-conference game

[15][16][17]

References

  1. ↑ "Intercollegiate Foot-Ball Standing". The Springfield Sunday Republican. Springfield, Massachusetts. December 20, 1889. p. 5. Retrieved June 22, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  2. ↑ "Touchdown For Stevens". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 6, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  3. ↑ "Princeton's Big Score: Carless Playing Allows Them to Run It Up Rapidly". The Philadelphia Times. October 20, 1889. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Sporting Note.—Foot Ball. Stevens Institute Vs. Trinity College". The Evening Journal. Jersey City, New Jersey. October 28, 1889. p. 4. Retrieved June 22, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ↑ "Yale's New Football Men: Corbin, Terry and Beecher Play Against Stevens". The New York Times. November 1, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "A Victory For Cornell". The New-York Times. New York, New York. November 3, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved June 22, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  7. ↑ "Tech Tuned Tables.—Steven Institute Meets Defeat at the South End". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 10, 1889. p. 7. Retrieved June 22, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  8. ↑ "Columbia Wins A Game.—Its Football Team Defeats The Stevens Institute Players". The Sun. New York, New York. November 15, 1889. p. 6. Retrieved June 18, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  9. ↑ "Stevens vs. Columbia". The Sun. New York, New York. November 15, 1889. p. 6. Retrieved June 18, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  10. ↑ "Foot-ball!—Stevens vs. Trinity". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. November 16, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved June 22, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  11. ↑ "Trinitys Defeat Stevens.—In a Closely Played Game at Hartford". The Springfield Sunday Republican. Springfield, Massachusetts. November 17, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved June 22, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  12. ↑ "Amherst Defeats Stevens". The Sun. New York, New York. November 21, 1889. p. 4. Retrieved June 18, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  13. ↑ "A Game Forfeited To Stevens". New-York Tribune. New York, New York. November 26, 1889. p. 3. Retrieved June 22, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  14. ↑ "Dartmouth Wins The Pennant". The Sun. New York, New York. November 29, 1889. p. 2. Retrieved March 21, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  15. ↑ "College Foot-ball". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. October 3, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved March 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  16. ↑ "Doings At Stevens Institute". The New-York Times. New York, New York. October 20, 1889. p. 10. Retrieved June 22, 2026 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  17. ↑ "1889 Stevens Ducks Schedule and Results". College Football at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference. Retrieved June 22, 2026.
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