1893 Worcester Tech football team

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1893 Worcester Tech football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–4–1
Head coach
  • None
Home stadium Worcester Oval
Seasons
 1892
1894 
1893 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton   11 0 0
Fordham   4 0 0
Harvard   12 1 0
Yale   10 1 0
Colgate   3 0 2
Penn   12 3 0
Penn State   4 1 0
Wesleyan   4 1 0
Holy Ghost   6 2 0
Swarthmore   6 2 1
Lehigh   7 3 0
Brown   6 3 0
Carlisle   2 1 0
Frankin & Marshall   4 2 1
Navy   5 3 0
Washington & Jefferson   5 3 0
Drexel   3 2 0
Bucknell   4 3 0
Amherst   7 6 1
Boston College   3 3 0
Geneva   2 2 1
Army   4 5 0
Williams   2 3 1
Tufts   4 7 0
Cornell   3 6 1
Worcester Tech   2 4 1
Boston University   1 2 0
Lafayette   3 6 0
Syracuse   4 9 1
Western Penn   1 4 0
MIT   1 5 0
Massachusetts   1 9 0
New Hampshire   0 1 0
Rutgers   0 4 0
Maine   0 5 0

The 1893 Worcester Tech football team was an American football team that represented Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the 1893 college football season. [1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 23at Trinity (CT) Worcester Oval, Worcester, MA T 16–16 [2] [3]
September 30 Massachusetts Worcester, MAW 16–0
October 7 Brown Worcester, MAL 0–30
October 21Boston Tech (MIT)
  • Worcester Oval
  • Worcester, MA
L 0–40 [4]
October 30at Amherst Amherst, MA L 4–34 [5]
November 4Trinity (CT)Hartford, CTW 0–10150 [6]
November 8at WilliamsL 0–66

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References

  1. "1893 WPI Engineers Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  2. "The Score a Tie: Trinity's First Foot-Ball Game of the Season". The Hartford Courant. September 25, 1893. p. 2 via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Of Local Interest". The Meriden Daily Journal. September 25, 1893. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
  4. "Boston Tech 40, Worcester Tech 0". The Boston Globe. October 22, 1893. p. 7 via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Amherst 34, Worcester Tech 4". The Boston Globe. October 31, 1893. p. 9 via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Trinity Eleven Shut Out: Worcester Polytechnic Team Defeats Them by a Score of 10 to 0". The Boston Globe. November 5, 1893. p. 7 via Newspapers.com.