1893 Iowa Agricultural Cardinals football team

1893 Iowa Agricultural Cardinals football
ConferenceIndependent
Record0–3
Head coach
CaptainEd Mellinger
1893 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Case    4 0 0
Miami (OH)    3 0 0
Baker    5 0 1
Oberlin    6 1 0
Hillsdale    4 1 0
Notre Dame    4 1 0
Buchtel    5 2 0
Butler    4 2 0
Michigan State Normal    4 2 0
Chicago    6 4 2
Beloit    4 3 0
Illinois    3 2 3
Lake Forest    3 2 3
Doane    2 2 0
Heidelberg    2 2 0
Kansas State Normal    1 1 0
Wabash    3 3 0
Washburn    1 1 1
Washington University    1 1 0
Ohio State    4 5 0
Wittenberg    2 3 0
Mount Union    1 2 0
Drake    0 2 1
Baldwin–Wallace    0 1 0
College of Emporia    0 1 0
Ohio Wesleyan    0 1 0
Kalamazoo    0 2 0
Iowa Agricultural    0 3 0
Cincinnati    0 6 0

The 1893 Iowa Agricultural Cardinals football team represented Iowa Agricultural College (later renamed Iowa State University) as an independent during the 1893 college football season. The 1893 Cyclones compiled a 0–3 record, losing twice to Grinnell and once to Cornell. They were outscored by a combined total of 62 to 14. W. P. Finney was the head coach, and Ed Mellinger was the team captain.

Between 1892 and 1913, the football team played on a field that later became the site of the university's Parks Library.