1889 Staten Island Athletic Club football team
The 1889 Staten Island Athletic Club football team was an American football team that represented the Staten Island Athletic Club of West Brighton, which was likely a different organization than the Staten Island Cricket Club, in the American Football Union (AFU) during the 1889 college football season. The athletic club originally played on a pre-determined AFU schedule, but after its resignation from the league on November 1,[1] the remaining games were no longer mandatory. However, they still continued to play league opponents for the remainder of the season, sticking to the original schedule to not disarrange the schedule for the rest of the schools in the union.[2] The team finished its season with a 0–6 record (0–3 in the AFU), and did not score a single point against another opponent, losing by a total of 232 to 0.
| 1889 Staten Island Athletic Club football | |
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| Conference | American Football Union |
| 1889 record | 0–6 (0–3 AFU) |
| Captain | Redmond Conyngham (Conningham?) |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Crescent Athletic Club $ | 4 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Orange Athletic Club | 3 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New York Athletic Club | 1 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Staten Island Athletic Club | 0 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 0 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Source |
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| October 12 | Orange Athletic Club | West New-Brighton, Staten Island, NY | L 0–24 | [3] |
| October 19 | Crescent Athletic Club | West New-Brighton, Staten Island, NY | L 0–44 | [4] |
| October 26 | New York Athletic Club | West New-Brighton, Staten Island, NY | L (forfeit) | [5] |
| November 2 | at Orange Athletic Club* |
| L 0–62 | [6] |
| November 9 | at Crescent Athletic Club* |
| L 0–78 | [7] |
| November 16 | at New York Athletic Club* | L 0–24 | [8] | |
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References
- "The Staten Island Athletic Club Withdraws". The Sun. 1889-11-02. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- "Football Has The Call". The Evening World. 1889-11-04. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- "Orange Players Win on Staten Island". New York Tribune. October 13, 1889. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
- "American Foot Ball Union: The Crescents Give the Staten Islanders a Beating". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 20, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
- "Athletic Contests To-Day". The New York Times. 1889-10-26. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- P.S. Luchter. "Orange Athletic Club All-Time Football Records". Retrieved May 17, 2020.
- "Foot Ball in the Mud: The Crescents Defeat the Staten Island Club by a Score of 78 to 0". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 10, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
- "Foot Ball At The Polo Grounds". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1889-11-17. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-08-27.