1888 college football season

1888 college football season
1888 Yale Bulldogs
Champion(s)Yale
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The 1888 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Yale as having been selected national champions.[1] October 18 saw the first intercollegiate game in the state of North Carolina when Wake Forest defeated North Carolina 6–4.[2] The first "scientific game" occurred on Thanksgiving of the same year when North Carolina played Duke (then Trinity). Duke won 16 to 0.[3]

Conference and program changes

School 1887 Conference 1888 Conference
USC Methodists Program established Independent

Statistical leaders

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1888 Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Williams 3 – 1 – 0 4 – 4 – 0
Dartmouth 3 – 1 – 0 3 – 4 – 0
MIT 2 – 2 – 0 2 – 5 – 0
Stevens 1 – 2 – 0 2 – 7 – 1
Amherst 0 – 3 – 0 2 – 8 – 1

Independents

1888 Eastern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   13 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   12 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –   11 – 1 – 0
Lehigh   –   10 – 2 – 0
Trinity (CT)   –   5 – 1 – 1
Lafayette   –   6 – 3 – 0
Cornell   –   4 – 2 – 0
Penn   –   9 – 7 – 0
Bucknell   –   2 – 3 – 0
Fordham   –   1 – 2 – 0
Massachusetts   –   2 – 4 – 0
Wesleyan   –   2 – 7 – 0
Worcester Tech   –   1 – 4 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 6 – 1
Penn State   –   0 – 2 – 1
Swarthmore   –   0 – 5 – 0
1888 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cincinnati   –   1 – 0 – 1
Notre Dame   –   1 – 0 – 0
Washington University   –   1 – 0 – 0
Michigan   –   2 – 1 – 0
Northwestern   –   2 – 1 – 0
Lake Forest   –   2 – 2 – 0
Minnesota   –   1 – 1 – 0
Indiana   –   0 – 0 – 1
Miami (OH)   –   0 – 0 – 1
Albion   –   0 – 2 – 0
1888 Southern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Georgetown   –   4 – 2 – 0
Trinity (NC)   –   2 – 1 – 0
Virginia   –   2 – 1 – 0
Wake Forest   –   2 – 1 – 0
Johns Hopkins   –   6 – 5 – 0
Richmond   –   1 – 2 – 0
North Carolina   –   1 – 3 – 0
Navy   –   1 – 4 – 0
Gallaudet   –     –  
Randolph–Macon   –     –  
St. John's (MD)   –     –  
1888 Western college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
USC   –   2 – 0 – 0
California   –   6 – 1 – 0

References

  1. ^ Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved October 16, 2009.
  2. ^ "Wake Forest: A Look Back".
  3. ^ "Trinity College To Have Football Season". Winston-Salem Journal. July 25, 1920. p. 5.
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