1891 Springfield YMCA football team

1891 Springfield YMCA football
Conference	Independent
Record	5–8–1
Head coach	Amos Alonzo Stagg (2nd season)
Captain	Amos Alonzo Stagg
Home stadium	Outing Park

1891 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					13	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					13	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					12	–	1	–	0
Tufts			–					7	–	1	–	0
Penn			–					11	–	2	–	0
Colgate			–					4	–	1	–	0
Army			–					4	–	1	–	1
Bucknell			–					6	–	2	–	1
Navy			–					5	–	2	–	0
Cornell			–					7	–	3	–	0
Geneva			–					4	–	2	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					4	–	2	–	0
Lehigh			–					7	–	4	–	0
Rutgers			–					8	–	6	–	0
Brown			–					4	–	6	–	0
Springfield YMCA			–					5	–	8	–	1
Fordham			–					1	–	2	–	1
Syracuse			–					4	–	7	–	0
Massachusetts			–					2	–	5	–	0
Western Univ. Penn.			–					2	–	6	–	0
Lafayette			–					2	–	9	–	1
NYU			–					1	–	4	–	0
Columbia			–					1	–	5	–	0
Wesleyan			–					1	–	6	–	0

The 1891 Springfield YMCA football team, also known as the Christian Workers and the Staggs, was an American football team that represented the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School—now known as Springfield College–as an independent during the 1891 college football season. Led by Amos Alonzo Stagg in his second and final season as head coach, the team compiled a record of 5–8–1. Stagg also played for the team at fullback and halfback. Springfield YMCA played home games at Outing Park in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
September 23		at Phillips Academy	Andover, MA	W 30–18
September ?		Connecticut Literary Institute	Springfield, MA	W 46–0
September 30	4:00 p.m.	at Trinity (CT)	Hartford, CT	L 14–16
October 3		at Orange Athletic Club	Orange Oval Orange, NJ	W 16–0
October 7	3:35 p.m.	at Amherst	Pratt Field Amherst, MA	T 12–12
October 10	3:38 p.m.	at Wesleyan	Middletown, CT	L 8–12
October 14		at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 0–28	500
October 17		Massachusetts	Outing Park Springfield, MA	W 30–0	300
October 21		Amherst	Outing Park Springfield, MA	W 18–4
October 24	2:35 p.m.	at Williams	Weston Field Williamstown, MA	L 6–16
October 28	3:15 p.m.	at Amherst	Pratt Field Amherst, MA	L 4–24
October 31		at Harvard	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA	L 0–34	2,500–3,000
November 7		at Harvard	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA	L 4–44	1,500
November 10	3:30 p.m.	Boston Athletic Association	Outing Park Springfield, MA	L 4–42