1885 college football season

American college football season August 2023 1885 File:Princeton Tigers football team (1885).png 1885 Princeton Tigers 7 October 3 to November 26 Princeton Not awarded until 1935 The 1885 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Princeton as having been selected national champions.http://web1.ncaa.org/web_files/stats/football_records/DI/2009/2009FBS.pdf Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book 70 The National Collegiate Athletic Association August 2009 Indianapolis, IN 2009-10-16 The season was notable for one of the most celebrated football plays of the 19th century - a 90-yard punt return by Henry "Tillie" Lamar of Princeton in the closing minutes of the game against Yale. Trailing 5–0, Princeton dropped two men back to receive a Yale punt. The punt glanced off one returner's shoulder and was caught by the other, Lamar, on the dead run.https://books.google.com/books?id=jboJTyrkJagC&q=Tillie+Lamar+Princeton+1885&pg=PA15 Mark F. Bernstein 15 Princeton Football 2009 9780738565842 Lamar streaked down the left sideline, until hemmed in by two Princeton players, then cut sharply to the middle of the field, ducking under their arms and breaking loose for the touchdown. After the controversy of a darkness-shortened Yale-Princeton championship game the year before that was ruled "no contest," a record crowd turned out for the 1885 game. For the first time, the game was played on one of the campuses instead of at a neutral site, and emerged as a major social event, attracting ladies to its audience as well as students and male spectators.https://archive.org/details/footballamerica00davigoog parke davis football intercollegiate game. Football, the American Intercollegiate Game c. Scribner's sons 1911 Parke H. Davis Parke H. Davis The Lamar punt return furnished the most spectacular ending to any football game played to that point, and did much to popularize the sport of college football to the general public. Conference and program changes School 1884 Conference 1885 Conference Williams Ephs Independent Northern Intercollegiate Football Association Tufts Jumbos Independent Northern Intercollegiate Football Association Conference standings The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings: References