1883 Gallaudet Bison football team

1883 Gallaudet Bison football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–0
Head coach
Home stadiumKendall Green
Seasons
1884 →
1883 college football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale   –   9 – 0 – 0
Gallaudet   –   2 – 0 – 0
Carleton   –   1 – 0 – 0
Johns Hopkins   –   1 – 0 – 0
NYU   –   1 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   8 – 2 – 0
Princeton   –   7 – 1 – 0
Penn   –   6 – 2 – 1
Stevens   –   6 – 4 – 1
Massachusetts   –   1 – 1 – 0
Minnesota   –   1 – 1 – 0
Wesleyan   –   3 – 3 – 0
Williams   –   1 – 1 – 0
Fordham   –   4 – 5 – 0
Michigan   –   2 – 3 – 0
Lafayette   –   2 – 4 – 0
Johns Hopkins   –   1 – 2 – 0
Columbia   –   1 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 6 – 0
Amherst   –   0 – 1 – 0
Dartmouth   –   0 – 1 – 0
Hamline   –   0 – 1 – 0
Lewisburg   –   0 – 1 – 0
Navy   –   0 – 1 – 0
CCNY   –   0 – 2 – 0
Columbian University   –   0 – 2 – 0
Georgetown   –   0 – 2 – 0

The 1883 Gallaudet Bison football team represented the Gallaudet University, a college for deaf-mutes, during the 1883 college football season. In the team's inaugural season, it defeated Georgetown twice.[1] The players sewed their own uniforms, made of heavy canvas with black and white stripes.[2][3]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
November 20Georgetown
W 13–0
November 29Georgetown
  • Kendall Green
  • Washington, DC
W 15–0

See also

References

  1. ^ "Georgetown Football: Game By Game". Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved August 9, 2015.
  2. ^ Richard Kimball. "Half a Man: Deaf Masculinity and Sports" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 17, 2015.
  3. ^ Olof Hansno. "Gallaudet Athletics in the Early Eighties". The Silent Worker. 36 (6): 274.[permanent dead link‍]


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