The 1894 Orange Athletic Club football team was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

team that represented the

Orange Athletic Club The Orange Tornadoes and Newark Tornadoes were two manifestations of a long-lived professional American football franchise that existed in some form from 1887 to 1941 and from 1958 to 1970, having played in the American Amateur Football Union from ...

in the American Football Union (AFU) during the

1894 college football season The 1894 college football season was the season of American football played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1894–95 academic year. The 1894 Yale Bulldogs football team compiled a perfect 16–0 record, outscore ...

. The team played its home games at the Orange Oval in

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, compiled a 4–5–1 record (1–0 against AFU opponents), and won the AFU championship. Coyne was the team captain.

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