1880 college football season
1880 Princeton Tigers
Total No. of teams16
Champion(s)Princeton
Yale
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The 1880 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Princeton and Yale as having been selected national champions.[1] On April 9, college football was first played in the state of Kentucky when Kentucky University defeated Centre 133/4–0 at Stoll Field. It was one of the first in the South.

Conference standings

1880 college football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton   –   4 – 0 – 1
Yale   –   4 – 0 – 1
Kentucky University   –   2 – 0 – 0
Michigan   –   1 – 0 – 0
Harvard   –   2 – 2 – 2
Penn   –   2 – 2 – 0
Rutgers   –   2 – 2 – 0
Columbia   –   1 – 2 – 0
Amherst   –   0 – 1 – 1
Massachusetts   –   0 – 1 – 1
Stevens   –   1 – 4 – 0
Brown   –   0 – 1 – 0
CCNY   –   0 – 1 – 0
Philadelphia Crescent AC   –   0 – 1 – 0
Toronto   –   0 – 1 – 0
Centre   –   0 – 2 – 0

References

  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.
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