1887 college football season

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.[1] 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 [2]), and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 102 to 10.[3] 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.

1887 college football season
1887 Yale Bulldogs
Champion(s)	Yale
football seasons

Statistical leaders

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

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1887 Eastern Intercollegiate Football Association standings Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T MIT $ 2 – 0 – 0     5 – 1 – 0 Dartmouth 1 – 1 – 0     3 – 1 – 1 Williams 1 – 0 – 0     3 – 3 – 0 Amherst 0 – 3 – 0     4 – 6 – 0 $ – Conference champion

Independents

1887 Eastern college football independents records Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Yale   –       9 – 0 – 0 Penn State   –       2 – 0 – 0 Harvard   –       10 – 1 – 0 Lafayette   –       7 – 2 – 0 Princeton   –       7 – 2 – 0 Lehigh   –       4 – 3 – 0 Trinity (CT)   –       3 – 3 – 1 Penn   –       6 – 7 – 0 Wesleyan   –       4 – 5 – 0 Amherst   –       4 – 6 – 0 Massachusetts   –       2 – 3 – 0 Rutgers   –       3 – 6 – 0 Tufts   –       3 – 6 – 0 Bucknell   –       0 – 2 – 0 Cornell   –       0 – 2 – 0 Franklin & Marshall   –       0 – 2 – 0 Stevens   –       0 – 6 – 1 Union (NY)   –         –   Worcester Tech   –         –	1887 Midwestern college football independents records Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Michigan   –       5 – 0 – 0 Butler   –       3 – 0 – 0 Minnesota   –       2 – 0 – 0 Cincinnati   –       1 – 0 – 0 Washington University   –       1 – 0 – 0 Indiana   –       0 – 1 – 0 Purdue   –       0 – 1 – 0 Wabash   –       0 – 1 – 0 Notre Dame   –       0 – 3 – 0 Albion   –       0 – 1 – 0 Franklin (IN)   –         –	1887 Southern college football independents records Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T Navy   –       3 – 1 – 0 Georgetown   –       2 – 1 – 0 Richmond   –       1 – 1 – 0 Virginia   –       0 – 0 – 1 Johns Hopkins   –       0 – 2 – 0 Randolph–Macon   –         –   St. John's (MD)   –         –
1887 Western college football independents records Conf     Overall Team W   L   T     W   L   T California   –       4 – 0 – 0

References

1. Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
2. Scholastic. Notre Dame, IN: The University of Notre Dame. 1887.
3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-06-22. Retrieved 2013-08-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)