1891 Manhattan Athletic Club football team

American college football season August 2023 1891 Manhattan Athletic Club football American Football Union AFU – – Hugh Janeway Manhattan Field The 1891 Manhattan Athletic Club football team was an American football team that represented the Manhattan Athletic Club (MAC) in the American Football Union (AFU) during the 1891 college football season.2015-09-13 Team Records Game by Game http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/incomplete_data/game_by_game_ac.php?teamid=1847&year=1891 2020-08-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20150913071739/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/incomplete_data/game_by_game_ac.php?teamid=1847&year=1891 2015-09-13 Former Princeton player Hugh Janeway was the team captain. Before the season began, MAC signed some of the best football players in the country, including former Princeton stars Snake Ames and Sport Donnelly. One newspaper wrote: "Never before was an amateur athletic organization able to get together such a crack eleven as the Manhattans turned out this fall, and some football authorities even went so far as to predict that, with a little practice, it woulld beat any team in the country." However, the AFU adopted a rule on the day before the opening game prohibiting MAC's best players (including Ames and Donnelly) from playing because they did not live within 100 miles of the club they represented.Broke Up Their Team: Manhattan's Famous Football Eleven Retire From the Field Pittsburg Dispatch November 11, 1891 8 https://www.newspapers.com/article/pittsburg-dispatch-broke-up-their-team/140130942/ Newspapers.com According to a newspaper account, the new rule was adopted by MAC's opponents and "apparently was designed expressly to prevent Ames and Donnelly from playing with the Manhattans." MAC withdrew from the AFU in protest of the ruling.A Big Football Row: Manhattans Resign from the American Union The Brooklyn Citizen October 31, 1891 3 https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-a-big-football-row/140131189/ Newspapers.com A further controversy arose in late November 1891 as to whether MAC should be deemed a professional club for hosting a game between Yale and Princeton that generated receipts of $50,000.Are They Amateurs? Status of the Players in the Great Football Match: Does That M.A.C. Contract Make Them Professionals? The Evening World November 27, 1891 1 https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-evening-world-manhattan-athletic-clu/140129881/ Newspapers.com Schedule October 14 4:30 p.m. w y Columbia Columbia Grounds Bronx, NY 28–0 A Bad Defeat for Columbia The Sun New York October 15, 1891 4 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29377657/a_bad_defeat_for_columbia/ Newspapers.com October 24 l y Schuylkill Navy Philadelphia, PA 0–22 The M.A.C. Downed The Times Philadelphia October 25, 1891 14 https://www.newspapers.com/article/191552693/ Newspapers.comFootball Notes The Sun New York October 24, 1891 4 https://www.newspapers.com/article/191552950/ Newspapers.com October 28 l y Princeton University Field Princeton, NJ 0–78 Princeton's Top Score: They Roll Up 78 Points Against the Manhattan Team The Times Philadelphia October 29, 1891 3 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16492816/princetons_top_score_they_roll_up_78/ Newspapers.com October 31 l y Crescent Athletic Club Eastern Park Brooklyn, NY 0–10 3,000 The Police Interfere And Stop a Lively "Mill" on the Ball Field The Brookly Daily Eagle November 1, 1891 1 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51393043/the-police-interfere-and-stop-a-lively/ Newspapers.com November 3 w Princeton picked team Manhattan Field Manhattan, NY 62–8 700 Princeton Picked Men Defeated New-York Tribune November 4, 1891 5 https://www.newspapers.com/article/191552894/ Newspapers.com November 7 3:15 p.m. w New York Athletic Club Manhattan Field Manhattan, NY 12–0 1,000 Manhattan Beats New-York The New-York Times November 8, 1891 3 https://www.newspapers.com/article/191467403/ Newspapers.com November 14 Cancelled Orange Athletic Club Manhattan Field Manhattan, NY November 24 l y Rutgers New Brunswick, NJ 0–34 References Manhattan Athletic Club Manhattan Athletic Club football