Factoid 225 - The 1881 College Football season.
Date:
7/29/14
In 1881 there were ten teams playing college football: Princeton Tigers; Rutgers Scarlet Knights; Columbia Lions; Yale Bulldogs; Harvard Crimson; Penn Quakers; Brown Bears; Navy Midshipmen; UMass Minutemen; and Michigan Wolverines. Rutgers, Navy, UMass, and Michigan are the only schools from that era still playing at the FBS level. The National Champions for that year are listed below (the Ivy League was dominant).
National Champions
- Princeton 7–0–2 (BR, PD) *
- Yale 5–0–1 (NCF, PD) *
1881 Fun Facts
- The United States National Lawn Tennis Association (USNLTA) was founded, and the first U.S. Tennis Championships were played.
- The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral occurred in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, USA.
- The fifth hurricane of the Atlantic season hit Florida and the Carolinas, killing about 700.
* Selector's Glossary
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