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.[1] October 18 saw the first intercollegiate game in the state of North Carolina when Wake Forest defeated North Carolina 64.[2] The first "scientific game" occurred on Thanksgiving of the same year when North Carolina played Duke (then Trinity). Duke won 16 to 0.[3]

Conference and program changes

School1887 Conference1888 Conference
Southern California MethodistsProgram establishedIndependent

Statistical leaders

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1888 Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Williams 3 1 04 4 0
Dartmouth 3 1 03 4 0
MIT 2 2 02 5 0
Stevens 1 2 02 7 1
Amherst 0 3 02 8 1

Independents

1888 Eastern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Yale    13 0 0
Harvard    12 1 0
Princeton    11 1 0
Lehigh    10 2 0
Trinity (CT)    5 1 1
Lafayette    6 3 0
Cornell    4 2 0
Penn    9 7 0
Bucknell    2 3 0
Fordham    1 2 0
Massachusetts    2 4 0
Wesleyan    2 7 0
Worcester Tech    1 4 0
Rutgers    1 6 1
Penn State    0 2 1
Swarthmore    0 5 0
1888 Midwestern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Cincinnati    1 0 1
Notre Dame    1 0 0
Washington University    1 0 0
Michigan    2 1 0
Northwestern    2 1 0
Lake Forest    2 2 0
Minnesota    1 1 0
Indiana    0 0 1
Miami (OH)    0 0 1
Albion    0 2 0
1888 Southern college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
Georgetown    4 2 0
Trinity (NC)    2 1 0
Virginia    2 1 0
Wake Forest    2 1 0
Johns Hopkins    6 5 0
Richmond    1 2 0
North Carolina    1 3 0
Navy    1 4 0
Gallaudet       
Randolph–Macon       
St. John's (MD)       
1888 Western college football independents records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
USC    2 0 0
California    6 1 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. "Wake Forest: A Look Back".
  3. "Trinity College To Have Football Season". Winston-Salem Journal. July 25, 1920. p. 5.


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