1876 college football season

The 1876 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] On November 11, organized intercollegiate football was first played in the state of Pennsylvania as Princeton defeated Penn 60 in Philadelphia.[2]

Conference and program changes

School1875 Conference1876 Conference
Penn QuakersProgram EstablishedIndependent

Conference standings

1876 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale      3 0 0
Rutgers      1 0 0
Harvard      3 1 0
Princeton      3 2 0
Stevens      2 2 0
Penn      1 2 0
Columbia      1 3 0
Canada All-Stars      0 1 0
McGill      0 1 0
NYU      0 1 0
Philadelphia All-Stars      0 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. "Penn Football:Origins To 1901". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2015-04-29.
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