1883 Gallaudet Bison football team

The 1883 Gallaudet Bison football team represented the Gallaudet Bison of Gallaudet University, a college for deaf-mutes. 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
1883 record2–0
Head coach
Home stadiumKendall Green
1883 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale   –    9 –0 –0
Gallaudet   –    2 –0 –0
Carleton   –    1 –0 –0
Johns Hopkins   –    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
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 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-08-09.
  2. Richard Kimball. "Half a Man: Deaf Masculinity and Sports" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-11-17.
  3. Olof Hansno. "Gallaudet Athletics in the Early Eighties". The Silent Worker. 36 (6): 274.
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