The 1889 Wake Forest Baptists 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

Wake Forest College Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus, the un ...

as an independent during the 1889 college football season. Led by

W. C. Riddick Wallace Carl Riddick Jr. (August 4, 1864 – June 9, 1942) was an American college football coach and university administrator. Riddick received his A.B. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his degree in civil engineeri ...

in his second and final season as head coach, the Baptists compiled a record of 2–2.

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