The 1891 Purdue football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1891 college football season. The team compiled a 4–0 record in the university's fourth season fielding an intercollegiate football team. For the 1891 season, Purdue hired Knowlton Ames as its football coach. Ames played for Princeton from 1886 to 1889 and was considered one of the greatest players ever to play college football, after scoring 730 points for Princeton. The 1891 Purdue team shut out all four opponents, outscoring , , Indiana, and by a total of 194 to 0. Purdue's 60–0 victory over Indiana was the first installment in a rivalry which later became noted for the award of the Old Oaken Bucket trophy. It was this team that earned the university the Boilermakers nickname, as the Daily Argus News, a local Crawfordsville newspaper, reported on the game versus Wabash with the article Slaughter of Innocents: Wabash Snowed Completely Under by the Burly Boiler Makers from Purdue [sic].
J. C. Teeters was the team captain.
Schedule
Roster Larry Downs Bill Finney A. L. Fulkerson Charles Hardy Art Herkless S. M. Kintner Bob Lackey Jesse Little Sam Moore Walt Muessel Archibald Stevenson Jimmy Studebaker J. C. Teeters Jack Thompson
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