1880 Kentucky University football team

The 1880 Kentucky University football team represented Kentucky University—now known as Transylvania University—in the 1880 college football season. This was Kentucky U'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] Kentucky U won both its games over Centre College.

1880 Kentucky University football
ConferenceIndependent
1880 record2–0
Head coachNone
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 9Centre
W 13¾–0
April 16at Centre
W 5½–0

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See also

  • 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 2015-08-10.
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