The 1889 Amherst 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

Amherst College Amherst College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher educatio ...

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 ...

. Lead by first-year head coach Harry A. Smith, the team compiled an overall record of 4–7–1, placing third in the

Triangular Football League The Triangular Football League or New England Intercollegiate Football Association was an American college football conference. Its founding members were Dartmouth Big Green football, Dartmouth, Williams Ephs football, Williams, and Amherst Mammoth ...

(TFL) with a mark of 0–2.

Schedule

References

Amherst Amherst may refer to: People * Amherst (surname), including a list of people with the name * Earl Amherst of Arracan in the East Indies, a title in the British Peerage; formerly ''Baron Amherst'' * Baron Amherst of Hackney of the City of London, ...

Amherst Mammoths football seasons Amherst football {{collegefootball-1890s-season-stub