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The 1894 college football season was the season of American football played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1894–95 academic year.
The 1893 college football season was the season of American football played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1893–94 academic year.
The 1890 college football season was the season of American football played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1890–91 academic year.
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The 1893 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1893 college football season. Led by C. D. Bliss, Stanford was undefeated, with one tie against rival California.
The 1893 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1893 college football season. The Quakers finished with a 12–3 record in their second year under head coach and College Football Hall of Fame inductee, George Washington Woodruff. Significant games included victories over Navy (34–0), Penn State (18–6), Lafayette (82–0), and Cornell (50–0), and losses to national champion Princeton (4–0), Yale (14–6), and Harvard (26–4). The 1893 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 484 to 62. No Penn players were honored on the 1893 College Football All-America Team, as all such honors went to players on the Princeton, Harvard and Yale teams.
References
- ↑ Sears, Hal D. (Winter 1992). "The Moral Threat of Intercollegiate Sports: An 1893 Poll of Ten College Presidents, and the End of "The Champion Football Team of the Great West"" (PDF). Journal of Sport History. 9 (3). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 30, 2017.
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