1886 Stevens football team

The 1886 Stevens football team represented Stevens Institute of Technology as an independent during the 1886 college football season. The team compiled a 0–7–1 record and was outscored by its opponents, 194 to 6.[1] They were also shut out in seven of their eight contests, nearly avoiding a scoreless year with a 61–6 loss to national champion Princeton.

1886 Stevens football
ConferenceIndependent
Record0–7–1
Head coach
  • Unknown
Home stadiumSt. George's Cricket Grounds
1886 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale   –  9 –0 –1
Princeton   –  7 –0 –1
Harvard   –  12 –2 –0
Lafayette   –  10 –2 –0
Williams   –  5 –1 –1
Massachusetts   –  2 –1 –0
Penn   –  9 –7 –1
Lehigh   –  4 –3 –1
Dartmouth   –  2 –2 –0
Amherst   –  3 –4 –0
Rutgers   –  1 –3 –0
Wesleyan   –  2 –6 –0
MIT   –  2 –6 –1
Vermont   –  0 –1 –0
Stevens   –  0 –7 –1
Tufts   –  0 –8 –0
NYU   –  0 –3 –0
Swarthmore   –    –  
Trinity (CT)   –    –  

Schedule
DateTimeOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
October 9at Princeton
L 0–58[2]
October 13Princeton
L 0–61300[3]
October 163:00 p.m.at Harvard
L 0–44[4]
October 20YaleHoboken, NJL 0–54[5]
October 23LafayetteHoboken, NJL 0–5[6]
October 30LehighHoboken, NJT 0–0
November 13at LehighBethlehem, PAL 0–14[7]
November 20at LafayetteEaston, PAL 0–58[8]

Crickets of Stevens Institute
1886 American Football Union standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Crickets of Stevens Institute $ 3 –0 –04 –1 –0
Staten Island Football Club 1 –2 –22 –3 –3
Unions of Columbia 1 –2 –01 –3 –0
Brooklyn Hill 0 –1 –23 –5 –3
Cutler School 0 –0 –0– –– ––
Spartan Harriers 0 –0 –0– –– ––

The Stevens Institute also operated a second team known as the Crickets, who joined the American Football Union for their inaugural 1886 season. The Crickets compiled a 4–1 record against their opponents in the American Football Union (Their official AFU record would be 3–0, as the Brooklyn Hill contest on October 10 was before the AFU championship series began and November 6 match against the Staten Island Football Club was declared off by the AFU Executive Committee because of poor officiating), and that was enough to crown them Union champions for the season, and to receive the AFU championship pennant in January of the next year.

DateTimeOpponentSiteResultSource
October 10Brooklyn Hill*
W 22–6[9]
October 164:00 p.m.Brooklyn Hill
  • Parade Grounds, Prospect Park
  • Brooklyn, NY
W 8–6 (8–10 disputed)[10][11]
October 23Staten Island Football ClubStaten Island, NYUnknown [12]
October 30Unions of ColumbiaLikely postponed [13]
November 2Unions of Columbia
W 13–6[14]
November 6at Staten Island Football Club*Hoboken, NJL 4–10[15]
December 4Staten Island Football Club
W 10–0[16]
  • *Non-conference game

References
  1. "1886 Stevens Ducks Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC.
  2. "Football At Princeton". The New York Times. New York, New York. October 10, 1886. p. 1. Retrieved March 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  3. "Princeton Wins Easily". The New York Times. New York, New York. October 14, 1886. p. 8. Retrieved March 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  4. "The Harvards Again". The Boston Sunday Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. October 17, 1886. p. 6. Retrieved March 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  5. "Yale 54—Stevens 0". New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier. New Haven, Connecticut. October 21, 1886. p. 3. Retrieved March 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  6. "Finished Under Protest". The New York Times. New York, New York. October 24, 1886. p. 7. Retrieved March 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  7. "Lehigh Defeats Stevens". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 14, 1886. p. 2. Retrieved March 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  8. "Lafayette's Vigorous Kickers". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 21, 1886. p. 2. Retrieved March 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com open access.
  9. "Two Football Games". The New York Times. October 10, 1886. p. 7. Retrieved August 12, 2020.
  10. "Football Notes". The Philadelphia Inquirer. October 18, 1886. p. 3. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  11. "Football and Lacrosse". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. October 17, 1886. p. 3. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  12. "Staten Island". The New York Times. October 21, 1886. p. 8. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  13. "City and Suburban News". The New York Times. October 30, 1886. p. 8. Retrieved August 12, 2020.
  14. "Clipped From The New York Times". The New York Times. November 3, 1886. p. 3. Retrieved August 12, 2020.
  15. "Victors At Football". The New York Times. November 7, 1886. p. 7. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  16. "Football Matches". The Brooklyn Union. December 5, 1886. p. 8. Retrieved August 11, 2020.


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