1887 college football season

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1887 college football season
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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.

Statistical leaders

  • Player scoring most points: Knowlton Ames, Princeton, 219

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1887 Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association standings
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
MIT $ 4 – 0 – 0 5 – 1 – 0
Dartmouth 2 – 1 – 1 3 – 1 – 1
Trinity (CT) 2 – 2 – 0 3 – 3 – 1
Amherst 1 – 3 – 0 4 – 6 – 0
Stevens 0 – 3 – 1 0 – 6 – 1
  • $ – Conference champion

Independents

1887 Eastern college football independents records
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   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
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 Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   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
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Team W   L   T W   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
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Team W   L   T W   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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