1879 college football season

The 1879 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Princeton and Yale having been selected as national champions.[2]

Racine College and the University of Michigan played the first football game in the Midwest. The 1879 Michigan Wolverines football team beat Racine in a game played in Chicago.

Navy also had its first game; the team did not have a coach until 1890.[3]

Conference and program changes

School 1878 Conference 1879 Conference
Michigan Wolverines Program Established Independent

Conference standings

1879 college football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Princeton   –       4 – 0 – 1
Yale   –       3 – 0 – 2
Massachusetts   –       1 – 0 – 0
Michigan   –       1 – 0 – 1
Harvard   –       2 – 1 – 2
Penn   –       2 – 2 – 0
Amherst   –       1 – 1 – 0
Navy   –       0 – 0 – 1
McGill   –       0 – 0 – 1
Toronto   –       0 – 0 – 1
Stevens Tech   –       1 – 2 – 5
Rutgers   –       1 – 2 – 3
PA Military   –       0 – 1 – 1
Racine   –       0 – 1 – 0
Columbia   –       0 – 3 – 2
Swarthmore †   –       0 – 0 – 0
  • † Result of Swarthmore's lone game is unknown

References

  1. ↑ http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cf1879.htm
  2. ↑ Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
  3. ↑ http://www.nationalchamps.net/NCAA/database/navy_database.htm
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