1890_Delaware_football_team

1890 Delaware football team

1890 Delaware football team

American college football season

The 1890 Delaware football team represented Delaware College—now known as the University of Delaware—as an independent during the 1890 college football season.[1]

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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."[2]

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  1. [1]
    "Delaware Yearly Results: 1890–1894". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on February 13, 2010. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
  2. [2]
    Gelbert, Doug (January 1, 1995). The Great Delaware Sports Book. Cruden Bay Books. ISBN 9780964442702 – via Google Books.
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