1887 college football season

American college football season August 2023 1887 File:Yale Bulldogs football team (1887).jpg 1887 Yale Bulldogs 15 October 1 to November 26 Yale Not awarded until 1935 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.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 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 did not have a varsity team yet http://www.archives.nd.edu/about/news/?p=190 Scholastic The University of Notre Dame 1887 Notre Dame, IN ), and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 102 to 10.http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigten/michigan/1885-1889_yearly_results.php Michigan Game by Game Results 2013-08-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20130622200730/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigten/michigan/1885-1889_yearly_results.php 2013-06-22 dead Statistical leaders Player scoring most points: Knowlton Ames, Princeton, 219 Conference standings The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings: Independents References