1880 Centre football team

The 1880 Centre football team represented Centre College of Danville, Kentucky as an independent in the 1880 college football season. This was Centre's first season of play. The team's first game, played against Kentucky University on April 9, 1880 at Stoll Field in Lexington, Kentucky, was the first college football game played in the state of Kentucky. The game is also claimed as the first college football game ever played in the Southern United States, though VMI and Washington and Lee played a game in Lexington, Virginia in 1873. The game was said to have resembled a combination of soccer and rugby.[1][2][3] Centre lost both its games this season to Kentucky University, now known as Transylvania University.

1880 Centre football
ConferenceIndependent
Record0–2
Head coach
  • Samuel L. McKee (1st season)
1880 college football records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Princeton    4 0 1
Yale    4 0 1
Kentucky University    2 0 0
Michigan    1 0 0
Harvard    2 2 2
Penn    2 2 0
Rutgers    2 2 0
Columbia    1 2 0
Amherst    0 1 1
Massachusetts    0 1 1
Stevens    1 4 0
Brown    0 1 0
CCNY    0 1 0
Philadelphia Crescent AC    0 1 0
Toronto    0 1 0
Centre    0 2 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
April 9at Kentucky UniversityL 13¾–0
April 16Kentucky University
L 5½–0

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See also

References

  1. Becky Riddle. "Stoll Field". Retrieved March 13, 2015.
  2. "Stoll Field Holds Many Memories". July 19, 1971. p. 11. Retrieved March 13, 2015 via Google news. open access
  3. John E Kleber (February 5, 2015). The Kentucky Encyclopedia. p. 843. ISBN 9780813159010. Retrieved March 13, 2015 via Google books. open access
  4. "Centre College Football Record (1880-1899)". Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 13, 2015.


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