1887 college football season

1887 college football season

1887 Yale Bulldogs

College football seasons « 1886 1888 »

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. 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 ), and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 102 to 10. 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

• Player scoring most points: Knowlton Ames, Princeton, 219

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1887 college football records Conf     Overall Team W   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 Georgetown   –       2 – 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 Team W   L   T     W   L   T MIT † 4 – 0 – 0       –   –   Dartmouth 3 – 1 – 1       –   –   † – Conference champion