The 1893 season
163 games on file. The AP poll didn’t exist yet. Princeton claims the national title. Share
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Scoreboards
Conference champions
- Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
- Purdue
- Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest
- Minnesota
- Oregon Intercollegiate Football Association
- Oregon State
- Triangular Football League
- Dartmouth
- Western Interstate University Football Association
- Missouri
From each program’s Wikipedia article, with the conference’s name that season. Titles come from the articles of today’s FBS and FCS programs, so a title shared with a school outside them lists only one champion.
Consensus All-Americans
- EFrank Hinkey, Yale
- EThomas Trenchard, Princeton
- OT/ELangdon Lea, Princeton
- OTMarshall Newell, Harvard
- OGArt Wheeler, Princeton
- OGBill Hickok, Yale
- CWilliam H. Lewis, Harvard
- QBPhilip King, Princeton
- RBFranklin Morse, Princeton
- RBFrank Butterworth, Yale
- FBCharley Brewer, Harvard
Players picked by enough of the major selectors to count as consensus, shown in bold in Wikipedia’s 1893 All-America article. Every selector’s teams, first to last, are on the 1893 All-America teams page.
From the newspapers
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rough their veins. The men lined up as Princeton. Position. Blanchard. Right end Lea: CdchIS Taylor. guard balllet w neeler gu5Iu GlcAie emu = Alng quarter pack nan half back Princeton won the toss. and the wind not being a sufficient momentum to effectually aid the players. chose the ball. The I’ll gers” started off with a flying wedge, Ward going through Yale’s center for twenty yards. On the next lineup Morse, the other half back, took the ball through Yale’s right end for three yards, but lost II on a tumble. Butterworth then kicked for goal, thirty yards, Princeton securing it Ward was sent through Taylor for three yards, but Morse, on two tries, and Ward, on one, failed to gain the necessary five yards, and Yale took the ball. Then it was that Yale, full Of confidence in their old center wedge, tried to force S3utterfirm did they find the line that Butterworth only made one yard. Then they tried the same thing with Lea, and he made three yards, but on the next lineup Hlckok stepped over the line and Princeton took the ball on an offside play. Blake punted down to Yale’s fve-yard line, and t@e2 of excitement by spreading around Aale’S right, between Greenway and Beard, and, dodglng Armstrong, making seventeen yards. HINKEY KNOCKED, SENSELESs. Yale was getting desperate now and, after a little consultation. decided to try the flying wedge used by Harvard. They sue ceeded in putting Hinkey through for five yards. Morse and Ward gained six yards. Princeton lost the ball ON an ofside play. Yale then tried the flying wedge, but played a trick nv xhrouipn tho halI 70 Pnttcrworth, instead of rushing it, the full back then punting forty yards. Blake caught the ball and started to bring it back. He was running head down when he struck Hinkey with terrible force, throwing the Yale captain senSeless on his back. He was patched up in the required five minutes, however, and play was resumed. For Princeton, King lost two yards trying to go around Yale’s end and Blake was forced to punt. Butterworth caught the ball on Yale’s thirty-five yard line and made a magnificent dash to return ii. He was tackled four times and each time shook off the Princeton men, amid great applause, finally landing the ball thirty-five yards back. On the next play he went through Prfnceton’s right end for ten yards more, then Princeton settled down. On four downs Yale failed to gain five yards and lost the ball. Blake then punted and Thorne captured the ball. but was downed before wedge but failed. B~utterworth was COM PEELED to punt. BY a poor punt by Blake on an offside play Yale gained two yards. Yale was now getting more desperate. The men knew that they had found their match, If not their superior in the Tigers. Four times they bucked Princeton’s center in desperate shape, and four times failed 10 gain an inch, the ball going To Princeton. Now it was Princeton’s turn. Ward was put through for six yards. Morse went through the center for ten yards more. YaIe’s center was rapidly weakening and the men on the line seemed TO be unable to withstand the rushes of the Princeton backs aided by the fine interference. The | adherents of the Tigers were wild with exelement, and King, the plucky little quarter back of the Princetons. added fuel to the excitement while plunging through | Yale’s center for ten yards. Morse gained three yards, Ward two, and finally, with a great rush. Ward has plsnged over the goal line for a touchdown. King kicked and Blake caught the bail on Yale’s fifteen yard line. King kicked a goal and the score was: Princeton, 6; Yale 0. For the remainder of the first half there was desperate playing. Princeton repeat edly smashed through Yale’s center, while Yale. on the contrary. failed to make any run made by Armstrong through Prince | toms left. Yale seemed to have lost all ing in games heretofore, and Hinkey and Butterworth seemed TO be the only men playing anything like the game which it was supposed individual players would put up. OF course Hinkey had been badly hurt and Thorne was also in pretty hard shape. Time on the first half was called at 1886. 4 OIt Il Z U IdACs “ THE SECOND HALF. In the opening of the second half Yale started again to use her old trick of buck ing the center, but with the exception Of the first gain made by Butterworth, the play was unsuccessful. Princeton’s center seemed like a stone wall. Seven success sive times Yale tried TO push either But terworth. Thorne or Armstrong through, but each time they were downed without making any considerable gain. Then Princeton tried it, but Yale Seemed to be waking up and resisted the attack. Blake was then forced to punt. After Butter worth had tried unsuccessfully to come through Princeton’s center, Ballet broke through Princeton’s left and took the ball out of B~utterwOrth’s hands, Ward was then pushed through for ten yards; Gray was sent around for ten more; Princeton got five more for Yale’s interference. Ward was again showed through for Two yards and Morse for three more before Yale got the ball. Three times Yale tried Princeton’s center but with no effect and ButterwOrth was forced to punt. King caught it and tried to bring it back, but lost four yards. Ward | punted for twenty-five yards, and in the next play Butterworth returned the punt. 1t was Princetcn’s ball then and Ward was put through the center for five yards Blake punted and Buterworth caught It. but was dosvned Immediately by Brown Butterworth punted for twenty-five yards and King fumbled but for Yale’s interference Princeton got the ball. King now made one Of the cleveresr maneuvers of the day. Ballet had put the ball in play a few seconds before they We’re ready. King, taking the bali, found nobody to receive it, and. hugging it close to his bosom. started around Yale’s lef end. He succeeded in making twenty-five yards. escaping all the tacklera. until n, reached Butterworth. who dOyned him With a flying interference Princeton car ried the ball up to Yale’S fVe-yard line They lost the ball to Yale and Butter worth punted. The ball went fully fort yards, one of the longest punts of the day Princeton secured il and. with n sole wedge, in one play forced il back lfteeI yards. King. Morse and Ward then mad a very clever play. King passed the bal to Ward, who crisS-crossed TO Morse. TIL Yale players had started for the rigSt an Morse in the meantime was coming like cyclone. Then there was hardly anybOd, in his way and, with the aid of Eing’ feint interference, he succeeded in making thirty-ive yards. AT this j~uncture OF tn game Thorne was forced 70 retire and Har took his place. Yale seemed to be thor oughly surprised at the plays of their op ponents and weakened considerable. Fou or five times Princeton bucked the cente and three successive plays carried the bal up to Yales Vineyard line. The crowd 81 the stands yelled themselves hoaTse. Whe time was called the ball was on Yale hfteen-yard line. downs-Ward. for Princeton. !. Goals King. for Princeton, l. Referee-AiI Brooks, of Harvard. Umpire-Mr. Dash iell. Of Lehign. Time OF game-Two hour and twenty-five minutes. 1t is interesting 10 note In this perticula that since 1888 Yale mas won eleve championship games; Princeton. four, an Harvard. one. Since 1883, out of a total q 122 games played, Yale has won III. hay ing lost one to Harvard and three I