1887 college football season

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

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. 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 ), and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 102 to 10. 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.

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 $ 4 – 0 – 0 5 – 1 – 0 Dartmouth 2 – 1 – 1 3 – 1 – 1 Trinity (CT) 2 – 2 – 0 3 – 3 – 1 Amherst 1 – 3 – 0 4 – 6 – 0 Stevens 0 – 3 – 1 0 – 6 – 1 $ – 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 Williams   –   3 – 3 – 0 Penn   –   6 – 7 – 0 Wesleyan   –   4 – 5 – 0 Tufts   –   4 – 6 – 0 Massachusetts   –   2 – 3 – 0 Rutgers   –   2 – 6 – 0 Bucknell   –   0 – 2 – 0 Cornell   –   0 – 2 – 0 Franklin & Marshall   –   0 – 2 – 0 Vermont   –   0 – 2 – 0	1887 Midwestern college football independents records Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T Michigan   –   5 – 0 – 0 Minnesota   –   2 – 0 – 0 Cincinnati   –   1 – 0 – 0 Washington University   –   1 – 0 – 0 Butler   –   2 – 1 – 0 Indiana   –   0 – 1 – 0 Purdue   –   0 – 1 – 0 Wabash   –   0 – 1 – 0 Notre Dame   –   0 – 3 – 0 Albion   –   0 – 1 – 0	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
1887 Western college football independents records Conf Overall Team W   L   T W   L   T California   –   4 – 0 – 0