1888_college_football_season

1888 college football season

1888 college football season

American college football season

The 1888 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] October 18 saw the first intercollegiate game in the state of North Carolina when Wake Forest defeated North Carolina 6–4.[2] The first "scientific game" occurred on Thanksgiving of the same year when North Carolina played Duke (then Trinity). Duke won 16 to 0.[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved October 16, 2009.
  2. [2]
    "Wake Forest: A Look Back".
  3. [3]
    "Trinity College To Have Football Season". Winston-Salem Journal. July 25, 1920. p. 5.


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