The 1889 Northwestern Purple football team was an

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team that represented

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during the

1889 college football season The 1889 college football season was the season of American football played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1889–90 academic year. The 1889 Princeton Tigers football team, led by team captain Edgar Allan Poe, c ...

. The team compiled a 2–2 record. Only one of the five games was an intercollegiate game, a 9–0 loss to Notre Dame on November 14, 1889, in Evanston. The game was the first meeting in the

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. Northwestern also played games against Evanston High School (18–4 victory), the Chicago University Club (0–28 loss), and the Wanderers Athletic Club (22–0 victory).

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