1890 Penn Quakers football team

The 1890 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1890 college football season. The Quakers finished with an 11–3 record in their third year under head coach E. O. Wagenhorst. Significant games included victories over Rutgers (16–4 and 20–12), Penn State (20–0), and Lehigh (8–0 and 17–14), and losses to Princeton (6–0) and Yale (60–0). The 1890 Penn team outscored its opponents by a combined total of 259 to 134. No Penn players were honored on the 1890 College Football All-America Team.

1890 Penn Quakers football
Conference	Independent
Record	11–3
Head coach	Woody Wagenhorst (3rd season)
Captain	Ted Church

1890 Eastern college football independents records

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Harvard			–					11	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					13	–	1	–	0
Princeton			–					11	–	1	–	1
Franklin & Marshall			–					8	–	2	–	0
Navy			–					5	–	1	–	1
Penn			–					11	–	3	–	0
Washington & Jefferson			–					2	–	1	–	0
Cornell			–					7	–	4	–	0
Syracuse			–					7	–	4	–	0
Springfield YMCA			–					5	–	3	–	0
Lehigh			–					6	–	4	–	0
Delaware			–					3	–	2	–	0
Rutgers			–					5	–	5	–	1
Penn State			–					2	–	2	–	0
Colgate			–					1	–	1	–	0
Wesleyan			–					5	–	6	–	0
Tufts			–					2	–	3	–	0
Western Univ. Penn			–					1	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					2	–	5	–	1
Brown			–					2	–	5	–	0
Bucknell			–					1	–	4	–	1
Fordham			–					1	–	3	–	1
Massachusetts			–					1	–	4	–	0
Columbia			–					1	–	5	–	1
Army			–					0	–	1	–	0
Geneva			–					0	–	1	–	0

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Attendance	Source
October 1	at Swarthmore	Whittier Field Swarthmore, PA	W 10–0
October 4	Rutgers	University Athletic Grounds Philadelphia, PA	W 16–4
October 11	Penn State	Philadelphia, PA	W 20–0
October 15	at Princeton	University Field Princeton, NJ (rivalry)	L 0–18	600
October 18	Lehigh	University Athletic Grounds Philadelphia, PA	W 8–0	2,500
October 22	at Columbia	Brotherhood Park New York, NY	W 18–0
October 25	Franklin & Marshall	University Athletic Grounds Philadelphia PA	W 28–0
October 31	vs. Virginia	Capitol Park Washington, DC	W 72–0	> 1,000
November 5	Schuylkill Navy	University Athletic Grounds Philadelphia, PA	W 34–10
November 8	Princeton	University Athletic Grounds Philadelphia, PA	L 0–6	10,000
November 15	at Yale	Yale Field New Haven, CT	L 0–60
November 22	at Lehigh	Bethlehem, PA	W 17–14
November 26	vs. Wesleyan	Washington Park New York, NY	W 16–10	3,000
December 13	vs. Rutgers	Madison Square Garden New York, NY	W 20–12	4,000–5,000