1883 Gallaudet Bison football team

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]

1883 Gallaudet Bison football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–0
Head coach
Home stadiumKendall Green
1883 college football records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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

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.


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