1890 Delaware football team

American college football season August 2023 January 2026 1890 Delaware Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football Independent 3–2 None The 1890 Delaware football team represented Delaware College—now known as the University of Delaware—as an independent during the 1890 college football season.Delaware Yearly Results: 1890–1894 http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/atlantic10/delaware/yearly_results.php?year=1890 College Football Data Warehouse June 14, 2012 February 13, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100213152444/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/atlantic10/delaware/yearly_results.php?year=1890 dead The game against the Swarthmore Sophomores was the first organized intercollegiate football game in Delaware. "In Newark, when news leaked out in 1889 that the college boys were going to play football Sheriff Bill Simmons swore up and down Main Street that the first corpse carried off the field would mean the end of the game."https://books.google.com/books?id=EV557kOFNlcC The Great Delaware Sports Book Doug Gelbert 1 January 1995 Cruden Bay Books 9780964442702 Google Books Schedule October 4 l y 1890 Swarthmore Quakers Swarthmore Swarthmore, PA 0–54 October 11 l Swarthmore sophomores Newark, DE 0–30 October 18 w y Del. Field Club of Wilmington Wilmington, DE 6–0 October 23 w y Wilmington Friends School Wilmington, DE 12–0 November 20 w Delaware sophomores Homewood Driving Park Newark, DE 8–0 References Delaware Category:Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football seasons Delaware football