1888 college football season 1888 Yale Bulldogs
Champion(s) Yale
← 1887 ·
football seasons
· 1889 →
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]
Conference and program changes [ ]
School
1887 Conference
1888 Conference
Southern California Methodists
Program established
Independent
Statistical leaders [ ]
Player scoring most points: Knowlton Ames , Princeton, 243
Conference standings [ ]
The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:
Independents [ ]
1888 Eastern college football independents records
Conf
Overall
Team
W
L
T
W
L
T
Yale
–
13
–
0
–
0
Harvard
–
12
–
1
–
0
Princeton
–
11
–
1
–
0
Lehigh
–
10
–
2
–
0
Trinity (CT)
–
5
–
1
–
1
Lafayette
–
6
–
3
–
0
Cornell
–
4
–
2
–
0
Penn
–
9
–
7
–
0
Williams
–
4
–
4
–
0
Bucknell
–
2
–
3
–
0
Fordham
–
1
–
2
–
0
Massachusetts
–
2
–
4
–
0
Stevens
–
2
–
7
–
1
Wesleyan
–
2
–
7
–
0
Amherst
–
2
–
8
–
1
Worcester Tech
–
1
–
4
–
0
Rutgers
–
1
–
6
–
1
Penn State
–
0
–
2
–
1
Swarthmore
–
0
–
5
–
0
1888 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf
Overall
Team
W
L
T
W
L
T
Cincinnati
–
1
–
0
–
1
Notre Dame
–
1
–
0
–
0
Washington University
–
1
–
0
–
0
Michigan
–
2
–
1
–
0
Northwestern
–
2
–
1
–
0
Lake Forest
–
2
–
2
–
0
Minnesota
–
1
–
1
–
0
Indiana
–
0
–
0
–
1
Miami (OH)
–
0
–
0
–
1
Albion
–
0
–
2
–
0
1888 Southern college football independents records
Conf
Overall
Team
W
L
T
W
L
T
Georgetown
–
4
–
2
–
0
Trinity (NC)
–
2
–
1
–
0
Virginia
–
2
–
1
–
0
Wake Forest
–
2
–
1
–
0
Johns Hopkins
–
6
–
5
–
0
Richmond
–
1
–
2
–
0
North Carolina
–
1
–
3
–
0
Navy
–
1
–
4
–
0
Gallaudet
–
–
Randolph–Macon
–
–
St. John's (MD)
–
–
1888 Western college football independents records
Conf
Overall
Team
W
L
T
W
L
T
USC
–
2
–
0
–
0
California
–
6
–
1
–
0
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