1890 Northwestern Purple football team

The 1890 Northwestern Purple football team was an American football team that represented Northwestern University during the 1890 college football season. The team compiled a 4–1–1 record. 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. The game against Wisconsin was the first between Northwestern and another of the teams that would later organize the Big Ten Conference.

1890 Northwestern Purple football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–1–1
Head coach
  • None
CaptainThomas Moulding
1890 Midwestern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Nebraska    2 0 0
Washington University    2 0 0
Minnesota    5 1 1
Michigan    4 1 0
Northwestern    4 1 1
Missouri    2 1 0
Cincinnati    2 1 1
Lake Forest    5 3 0
Baker    1 1 0
Iowa    1 1 0
Illinois    1 2 0
Kansas    1 2 0
Ohio Wesleyan    1 3 0
Wisconsin    1 3 0
Ohio State    1 4 0
Doane    0 1 0
Washburn    0 1 0
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