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 didn't 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
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
MIT $ 2 –0 –0  5 –1 –0
Dartmouth 1 –1 –0  3 –1 –1
Williams 1 –0 –0  3 –3 –0
Amherst 0 –3 –0  4 –6 –0
  • $ – Conference champion

Independents
1887 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW 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
Trinity (CT)   –    3 –3 –1
Penn   –    6 –7 –0
Wesleyan   –    4 –5 –0
Amherst   –    4 –6 –0
Massachusetts   –    2 –3 –0
Rutgers   –    3 –6 –0
Tufts   –    3 –6 –0
Bucknell   –    0 –2 –0
Cornell   –    0 –2 –0
Franklin & Marshall   –    0 –2 –0
Stevens   –    0 –6 –1
Union (NY)   –      –  
Worcester Tech   –      –  
1887 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW 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
Franklin (IN)   –      –  
1887 Southern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW 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
Randolph–Macon   –      –  
St. John's (MD)   –      –  
1887 Western college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW 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 2009-10-16.
  2. Scholastic. Notre Dame, IN: The University of Notre Dame. 1887.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-06-22. Retrieved 2013-08-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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