1894 Northwestern Purple football team

1894 Northwestern Purple football
Conference Independent
1894 record 4–5
Head coach A. A. Ewing (1st year)
Home stadium Northwestern Field
1894 college football independents records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Yale         16 0 0
Penn         12 0 0
Harvard         11 2 0
Purdue         9 1 0
Michigan         9 1 1
Chicago         14 7 1
Princeton         8 2 0
Brown         10 5 0
Beloit         6 3 0
Stanford         6 3 0
Wisconsin         5 2 0
Amherst         7 5 0
Cornell         6 4 1
Notre Dame         3 1 1
Minnesota         3 1 0
Tufts         6 5 0
Dartmouth         5 4 0
Illinois         4 3 0
Army         3 2 0
USC         1 0 0
Oregon Agricultural         2 1 0
Washington Agricultural         1 1 0
Washington         1 1 1
California         0 1 2
Oregon         1 2 1
Trinity (CT)         1 2 0
Utah         1 2 0
Lake Forest         3 4 0
Lafayette         5 6 0
Williams         1 3 0
MIT         1 4 0
Northwestern         1 5 0
Lehigh         5 9 0
Wesleyan         0 5 0

The 1894 Northwestern Purple team represented Northwestern University during the 1894 college football season. In their first and only year under head coach A. A. Ewing, the Purple compiled a 4–5 record. Three of the victories were mid-week warm-up games against Evanston High School. In three games against major college opponents (Chicago and Illinois), the team lost by a combined total score of 148 to 0.[1]

Schedule

  1. October 6, 1894: at Chicago, Loss, 0-46
  2. October 11, 1894: Evanston High, Win, 14-0
  3. October 13, 1894: at Lake Forest, Loss, 6-24
  4. October 17, 1894: Evanston High, Win, 12-0
  5. October 20, 1894: Beloit, Loss, 6-42
  6. October 24, 1894: Evanston High, Win, 22-6
  7. October 26, 1894: Lake Forest, Win, 12-8
  8. November 3, 1894: at Illinois, Loss, 0-66
  9. November 24, 1894: Chicago, Loss, 0-36

References

  1. "1894 Northwestern Wildcats Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
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