1873 Washington and Lee Generals football team

Washington and Lee Generals football
	1873 Washington and Lee Generals football
Conference	Independent
1873 record	1–0
Head coach	Unknown (1st season)
	Seasons 1890 →

The 1873 Washington and Lee Generals football team represented the Washington and Lee University in the 1873 college football season, the school's first season of football. Their four-game season featured four wins over VMI including its earliest victory and the first game in the South, a 4–2 win.^[1]^[2] The team has no known coach.

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Date	Opponent	Site	Result
November 2	VMI	Unknown Lexington, VA	W 4–2

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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20121002050631/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/bigsouth/virginia_military_institute/yearly_results.php?year=1873. Retrieved 2012-10-12.
↑ Melvin I. Smith. Evolvements of Early American Foot Ball: Through the 1890/91 Season. p. 62. https://books.google.com/books?id=kxuEYG6WmOsC&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false.

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[VMI-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20121002050631/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_iaa/bigsouth/virginia_military_institute/yearly_results.php?year=1873. Retrieved 2012-10-12.

[2] Melvin I. Smith. Evolvements of Early American Foot Ball: Through the 1890/91 Season. p. 62. https://books.google.com/books?id=kxuEYG6WmOsC&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false.

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v · d · e				Overall
1873 college football records
Team	W		L		W		L
Princeton		–		1	–	0	–	0
Harvard		–		1	–	0	–	1
Washington and Lee		–		4	–	0	–	0
Stevens Tech		–		2	–	1	–	0
Yale		–		2	–	1	–	0
Columbia		–		2	–	1	–	0
Rutgers		–		1	–	2	–	0
McGill		–		0	–	1	–	1
Eton		–		0	–	1	–	0
CCNY		–		0	–	1	–	0
NYU		–		0	–	1	–	0
Princeton Seminary		–		0	–	1	–	0
VMI		–		0	–	4	–	0

1873 Washington and Lee Generals football team

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