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 6–4.[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]

1888 college football season
1888 Yale Bulldogs
Champion(s)Yale
football seasons

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
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Dartmouth + 3 –1 –0  3 –4 –0
MIT + 3 –1 –0  ? –? –?
  • + – Conference co-champions

Independents
1888 Eastern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W 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
Williams   –    4 –4 –0
Bucknell   –    2 –3 –0
Fordham   –    1 –2 –0
Massachusetts   –    2 –4 –0
Stevens   –    2 –7 –1
Wesleyan   –    2 –7 –0
Amherst   –    2 –8 –1
Worcester Tech   –    1 –4 –0
Rutgers   –    1 –7 –1
Penn State   –    0 –2 –1
Swarthmore   –    0 –5 –0
1888 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W 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
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W 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
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W 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 2009-10-16.
  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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