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.[1] 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 [2]), and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 102 to 10.[3] 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:
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.[1] 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 [2]), and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 102 to 10.[3] 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: