The 1890 Northwestern Purple football team was an American football team that represented Northwestern University during the 1890 college football season.
[1] Only two of the seven games were intercollegiate games, a 22–6 victory over Beloit College on November 22, 1890, in Evanston, and a 22–10 victory over Wisconsin on November 27, 1890, in Milwaukee.
[1] The game against Wisconsin was the first between Northwestern and another of the teams that would later organize the Big Ten Conference.
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