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.

Statistical leaders

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1887 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale      9 0 0
Michigan      5 0 0
California      4 0 0
Minnesota      2 0 0
Harvard      10 1 0
Princeton      7 2 0
Navy      3 1 0
Virginia      0 0 1
Rutgers      3 6 0
Massachusetts      2 3 0
Indiana      0 1 0
Purdue      0 1 0
Cornell      0 2 0
Notre Dame      0 3 0
1887 Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
MIT $ 4 0 0       
Dartmouth 3 1 1       
  • $ Conference champion

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. http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigten/michigan/1885-1889_yearly_results.php


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