The 1888 season
94 games on file. The AP poll didn’t exist yet. Share
Scoreboards
Conference champions
- Eastern Intercollegiate Football Conference
- Dartmouth
From each program’s Wikipedia article, with the conference’s name that season. Titles come from the articles of today’s FBS and FCS programs, so a title shared with a school outside them lists only one champion.
From the newspapers
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RAH! RAH! RAH! YALE! LET THE BLUE RIBBON WAVE. ORANGE AND BLACK AND SACKCLOTH AND ASHES COULD NOT OVERCOME HER RIVALS SWIFT RUNNING AND LONG KIcKING-THE SCORE WAS 10 TO o-THE CHAMPION SHIP SETTLED 1t was currently reported at the Polo Grounds yesterday afternoon about O’clock that DR.. Timothy Dwight president Of Yale, put ON an entire suit of blue wrote another chapter for his latest work on Mascotism,n figured up the in crease of students at Yale next year consequent on lales great victory over the Princeton football team and then autographed TO Captain Corbin, of the Yale team, follows: “Omnia Princetonia Givisa est in tres parties. Novus lber de mas cotSme. Pax vobiscum” Literary translated this means: Princeton is all broken up. l shall write another book on mascotism. There is nothing .he matter with our football team of Sss.” Certainly there is nothing the matter with the Tale football team. Certainly there is nothing the natter With Yale athletes. and certainly Yale’s mascot and her sensible faculty are all right” The eleven tough, hardy, spry, brany, cool roung men who beat Princeton yesterday at foot ball did it in a way that covers them with glory, reflects credit their glorious old college and also proved that the eleven manly athletes from the right, tight, sandy” college in New-Jersey were beaten simply because Yale played a better game. Years may come and so, but each year, judging from past results, Will find Yale with better team than Hard work won the game for Yale by score of 10 TO 0; that is the secret of Nale’s success aided by the sensible course of her faculty. Hard work did much for Princeton, but superior generalship on the part of Yale, supple mented by Bulls magnificent drives and drop kicks. did much to win the day. Bull made two drop-lcks from the field in each three quarters OF the game. NO LACK OF EXCITEMENT. II was however, an exciting game. The ball went from one end of the field to the other for thirty-fve minutes before Yale scored and II was the same in the last tbree-quarterS before Yale made her final points Once Cowan crossed Yale’s line, but it was decided that foul had been made previous to his play and the point did not count. Again and again Princeton cQualled Yale in forcing the ball to her opponents line, but Bull was there; Bull kicked and Bull saved the game, and ultimately made the winning points for his side. There no luck it science. There was plenty of pluck to- but even if the Princeton men were all sandists@ they must admit that they were outeeneralled Their little unfair playing, a gratifying decrease of sluggng,7 and it might be called the most scientific game seen here for years -Four pros pective ministers played the Prime ton team and three on the Yale team Counting on a preponderance in theology however, seems 10 have Il gatonalists rather put their clerical brethren in the soup” Bull is not going to be a minister, but it is safe to say that if he ever runs for President with his friend Deacon WIZ Corbin, every Yale man will see Bull through. for the way he put Yale through PrincetOn’s lines If Harward should meet Yale. the result Will not he al tered and Yale will be champion Of the Inter collegiate Football Association OF 1883. The day dawned rather unpromisingly, but Q o’clock drew near the sun smiled cheerfully, and then lodging behind clouds as if he had got black eye at football, and did not want TO cast any refectons on the great game But it was light enough for all to see the game: all that wanted a little warmth. for there were thousands of IL GER men and pretty girls who shivered in the chill November air But that came later in the day. From noon until the hour of the game a long line of coaches, taIlyhOs, drags, vehicles of all kinds streams Of students, graduates, old and young, laymen, and RATS” of pretty girls, rolled up Ffth-ave. in their convevances, or streamed up the by-ways, or damned the elevated railroad cars, all going TO the game. AN ENORMOUS CROWD PRESENT. Yale and Princeton coaches started from the hotels, covered with blue, orange and black, packed with excited young men, who waved big banners, footed horns and woke up the town with their Rah rah! rahl Yale” or 1lurrah! hurran hurrah Princeton! Tiger! Siss boom ah.7 and the broad avenue was a panorama Of gayly revolving colors and a pandemonium of sounds as the procession rolled Houses were deco rated, and pretty faces smiled along the way. But the Polo Grounds themselves were a Mecca for enthusiasm, crowds coOrs, cheers and pretty girls. and all were there at o’clock From 10000 10 H. 600 people were in the grounds. Even the space for reporters was crowded. so many amateur journalists certainly never i’ll vaded the ranks of the profess before, not even after graduation day. Around the northern and western sides Of the field were bllow Of coaches, whose occupants sent up spray Of cOlors as went the fortunes of deep wave Of blue pervaded the platform next to the grand-stand, re- Ieved here and there by a yellow flag. The grand-stand was packed, and so many pretty tons flowers, that the scene suggested the Wars Of the Roses Against the ropes we’re hum dreds Of excited young college men,, who yelled, hn gg eas n o9eF ana 10 they took up wild, mingled see-saw cheer about | 2 10 p. m, when the Princeton eleven and sub | corner and tossed around the ball as If it were a baseball Bigger and stUrdier college students | mr. rarely seen than the Princeton players Yale Yale. Yale” came from all the field as | Corbin’s men a second later emerged from the ! southwest corner and got TO pitching the ball | around also They looked little smaller than the stone wall that constitutes PrlncetOns rush / line But even if the Princeton ministers con- / stltuted q mighty fortress, the Yale men had | three interesting young children who row IN the | crew among their solid rushcrs. The Princeton rush line averaged about ~ pounds and the Yale | men probably a little less HOW THE TEAMS WERE MADE UP. The two elevens ranged themselves at EGO D. m. for the game W. A. Brooks Of Harvard 81. was the referee, and Fred Fisk, Harvard, 49, the umpire. Princeton had the western end Of the field and the kickoff. This was the order PRINCETON --- Rusherfsusher. Cook Rusher Irvine Rusher George II eiieinger isushef – an” d! kusher -COwan, Captain In alnNL