1887 college football season

The 1887 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] In the West, the 1887 Michigan Wolverines football team compiled a 5–0 record, including three wins over Notre Dame (who was playing its first game ever and did not have a varsity team yet [2]), and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 102 to 10.[3] On November 13, college football was first played in the state of Virginia when the Virginia Cavaliers and Pantops Academy fought to a scoreless tie.

Statistical leaders

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1887 Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
MIT $ 4 0 05 1 0
Dartmouth 2 1 13 1 1
Trinity (CT) 2 2 03 3 1
Amherst 1 3 04 6 0
Stevens 0 3 10 6 1
  • $ Conference champion

Independents

1887 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale    9 0 0
Penn State    2 0 0
Harvard    10 1 0
Lafayette    7 2 0
Princeton    7 2 0
Lehigh    4 3 0
Williams    3 3 0
Penn    6 7 0
Wesleyan    4 5 0
Tufts    4 6 0
Massachusetts    2 3 0
Rutgers    2 6 0
Bucknell    0 2 0
Cornell    0 2 0
Franklin & Marshall    0 2 0
Vermont    0 2 0
1887 Midwestern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Michigan    5 0 0
Butler    3 0 0
Minnesota    2 0 0
Cincinnati    1 0 0
Washington University    1 0 0
Indiana    0 1 0
Purdue    0 1 0
Wabash    0 1 0
Notre Dame    0 3 0
Albion    0 1 0
1887 Southern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Navy    3 1 0
Georgetown    2 1 0
Richmond    1 1 0
Virginia    0 0 1
Johns Hopkins    0 2 0
1887 Western college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
California    4 0 0

References

  1. Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
  2. Scholastic. Notre Dame, IN: The University of Notre Dame. 1887.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-06-22. Retrieved 2013-08-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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