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]
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]