1892 Orange Athletic Club football team
American college football season
| 1892 Orange Athletic Club football | |
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| Conference | American Football Union |
| Record | 4–4–1 (1–1 AFU) |
| Home stadium | Orange Oval |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Crescent Athletic Club $ | 2 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Orange Athletic Club | 1 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 4 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New York Athletic Club | 0 | – | 2 | – | 0 | - | – | - | – | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 1892 Orange Athletic Club football team was an American football team that represented the Orange Athletic Club in the American Football Union (AFU) during the 1892 college football season.[1] The AFU in 1892 consisted of three amateur football teams – the Orange Athletic Club, the New York Athletic Club from Manhattan, and the Crescent Athletic Club from Brooklyn. The Orange team played its home games at the Orange Oval in East Orange, New Jersey, compiled a 4–4–4 record (1–1 against AFU opponents), and played against some of the best teams in the country, losing to Yale 58 to 0 and Princeton 23 to 0. On December 17, the OAC faced the Varuna Boat Club of Bay Ridge in one of the most well-known sport venues in the United States, Madison Square Garden.
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance |
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| October 1 | Stevens* |
| T 4–4 | 1,000–1,500 |
| October 8 | Rutgers* |
| W 22–10 | 900–1,000 |
| October 15 | Lehigh* |
| W 8–4 | 2,000 |
| October 22 | Yale* |
| L 0–58 | 2,000–3,000 |
| October 29 | Crescent Athletic Club |
| L 0–14 | |
| November 5 | New York Athletic Club |
| W 18–6 | |
| November 8 | Princeton* |
| L 0–23 | 2,500–3,000 |
| November 12 | Lafayette* | L 12–16 | ||
| December 17 | vs. Varuna Boat Club* | W 6–0 | ||
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References
- ^ "Orange Athletic Club All-Time Football Records". www.luckyshow.org. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
