1887 college football season

The 1887 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.[1] In the West, the 1887 Michigan Wolverines football team compiled a 5–0 record, including three wins over Notre Dame (who was playing its first game ever and did not have a varsity team yet [2]), and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 102 to 10.[3] On November 13, college football was first played in the state of Virginia when the Virginia Cavaliers and Pantops Academy fought to a scoreless tie.

1887 college football season
1887 Yale Bulldogs
Champion(s)Yale
football seasons

Statistical leaders

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1887 Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
MIT $ 4 –0 –05 –1 –0
Dartmouth 2 –1 –13 –1 –1
Trinity (CT) 2 –2 –03 –3 –1
Amherst 1 –3 –04 –6 –0
Stevens 0 –3 –10 –6 –1
  • $ – Conference champion

Independents
1887 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale   –  9 –0 –0
Penn State   –  2 –0 –0
Harvard   –  10 –1 –0
Lafayette   –  7 –2 –0
Princeton   –  7 –2 –0
Lehigh   –  4 –3 –0
Williams   –  3 –3 –0
Penn   –  6 –7 –0
Wesleyan   –  4 –5 –0
Tufts   –  4 –6 –0
Massachusetts   –  2 –3 –0
Rutgers   –  2 –6 –0
Bucknell   –  0 –2 –0
Cornell   –  0 –2 –0
Franklin & Marshall   –  0 –2 –0
Vermont   –  0 –2 –0
1887 Midwestern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Michigan   –  5 –0 –0
Butler   –  3 –0 –0
Minnesota   –  2 –0 –0
Cincinnati   –  1 –0 –0
Washington University   –  1 –0 –0
Indiana   –  0 –1 –0
Purdue   –  0 –1 –0
Wabash   –  0 –1 –0
Notre Dame   –  0 –3 –0
Albion   –  0 –1 –0
1887 Southern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Navy   –  3 –1 –0
Georgetown   –  2 –1 –0
Richmond   –  1 –1 –0
Virginia   –  0 –0 –1
Johns Hopkins   –  0 –2 –0
1887 Western college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
California   –  4 –0 –0

References
  1. Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved October 16, 2009.
  2. Scholastic. Notre Dame, IN: The University of Notre Dame. 1887.
  3. "Michigan Game by Game Results". Archived from the original on June 22, 2013. Retrieved August 11, 2013.


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