1888 college football season

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.[2] October 18 saw the first intercollegiate game in the state of North Carolina when Wake Forest defeated North Carolina 6–4.[3] The first "scientific game" occurred on Thanksgiving of the same year when North Carolina played Duke (then Trinity). Duke won 16 to 0.[4]

Conference and program changes

School 1887 Conference 1888 Conference
Southern California Methodists Program established Independent

Statistical leaders

Conference standings

1888 college football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Yale   –       13 – 0 – 0
USC   –       2 – 0 – 0
Notre Dame   –       1 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –       12 – 1 – 0
Princeton   –       11 – 1 – 0
California   –       6 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –       4 – 2 – 0
Michigan   –       2 – 1 – 0
Northwestern   –       2 – 1 – 0
Wake Forest   –       2 – 1 – 0
Trinity   –       2 – 1 – 0
Lake Forest   –       2 – 2 – 0
Minnesota   –       1 – 1 – 0
Indiana   –       0 – 0 – 1
Miami (OH)   –       0 – 0 – 1
Massachusetts   –       2 – 4 – 0
Richmond   –       1 – 2 – 0
North Carolina   –       1 – 3 – 0
Navy   –       1 – 4 – 0
WPI   –       1 – 4 – 0
Rutgers   –       1 – 7 – 1
Penn State   –       0 – 2 – 1

References

  1. ↑ http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cf1888.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. ↑ "Wake Forest: A Look Back".
  4. ↑ "Trinity College To Have Football Season". Winston-Salem Journal. July 25, 1920. p. 5.
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