1889 Princeton Tigers football team
The 1889 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1889 college football season. The team finished with a 10–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champions by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis. It was Princeton's 15th national championship. The team outscored their opponents 484 to 29. The team was captained by Edgar Allan Poe, the second cousin of his namesake, the writer Edgar Allan Poe.
Five Princeton players were selected by Caspar Whitney to the 1889 All-America college football team: quarterback Poe; halfback Roscoe Channing; fullback Knowlton Ames; tackle Hector Cowan; and center William George. Ames and Cowan were later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.Schedule
