1880 Centre football team

The 1880 Centre Praying Colonels football team represented Centre College in the 1880 college football season. This was Centre's first ever season. The first game is claimed as the first game ever played in the south at Stoll Field, though Washington & Lee and VMI played earlier games; it's the first game in the state of Kentucky. The game was said to have resembled a combination of soccer and rugby.[1][2][3] Centre lost both its games this season to Transylvania University (then known as Kentucky University).

1880 Centre football
ConferenceIndependent
1880 record0–2
Head coachSamuel L. McKee
1880 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Princeton      4 0 1
Yale      4 0 1
Kentucky University      2 0 0
Michigan      1 0 0
Penn      3 2 0
Harvard      2 2 2
Rutgers      2 2 0
Columbia      1 2 0
Stevens      1 5 0
Amherst      0 1 1
Massachusetts      0 1 1
Brown      0 1 0
CCNY      0 1 0
Toronto      0 1 0
Centre      0 2 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
April 9at Kentucky University
L 13¾–0
April 16Kentucky University
L 5½–0

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See also

  • Stoll Field
  • List of the first college football game in each US state

References

  1. Becky Riddle. "Stoll Field". Retrieved March 13, 2015.
  2. "Stoll Field Holds Many Memories". July 19, 1971. p. 11. Retrieved March 13, 2015 via Google news.
  3. John E Kleber (February 5, 2015). The Kentucky Encyclopedia. p. 843. Retrieved March 13, 2015 via Google books.
  4. "Centre College Football Record (1880-1899)". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-13.


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