The 1889 All-America college football team was the first All-America college football team. The team was selected by Caspar Whitney and published in This Week's Sports.
Yale end Amos Alonzo Stagg went on to become one of the sport's most successful coaches.
Yale guard Pudge Heffelfinger became the first professional football player in 1892.
Princeton fullback "Snake" Ames set an unofficial collegiate scoring record with 730 points, including 62 touchdowns and 176 goals after touchdown.
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Edgar Allan Poe was Attorney General of the State of Maryland from 1911 to 1915. He was born in Baltimore, the son of former Maryland attorney general John Prentiss Poe. He was named for his great-unc
1889 All-America college football team
…Yale), Pudge Heffelfinger (who later became the first professional football player), "Snake" Ames (who set a college scoring record with 730 points), Edgar Allan Poe (second cousin, twice removed of the writer of the same name), Arthur Cumnock (described as the greatest Harvard football player of all time in 1913…
Portrait of Poe from Walter Camp's 1894 book, American Football