1896 college football season

The 1896 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Lafayette and Princeton as having been selected national champions.[2] Lafayette finished with an 11-0-1 record while Princeton had a 10-0-1 record. In the second game of the season for both teams, Lafayette and Princeton played to a scoreless tie. Both teams had signature wins: Lafayette defeated Penn 6-4, giving the Quakers their only loss of the season, while Princeton defeated previously unbeaten Yale, 24-6, on Thanksgiving Day in the last game of the season. Princeton was retroactively named the 1896 national champions by the Billingsley Report, the Helms Athletic Foundation, the Houlgate System, and Lafayette and Princeton were named national co-champions by the National Championship Foundation and Parke Davis.

Conference and program changes

School 1895 Conference 1896 Conference
Chicago Maroons Independent Western Conference
Clemson TigersIndependent SIAA
Cumberland BulldogsIndependent SIAA
Illinois Illini Independent Western Conference
Kentucky State WildcatsIndependent SIAA
Louisiana State TigersIndependent SIAA
Mercer BaptistsIndependent SIAA
Michigan Wolverines Independent Western Conference
Minnesota Golden Gophers Independent Western Conference
Mississippi RebelsIndependent SIAA
Mississippi A&M AggiesIndependent SIAA
Nashville ? Independent SIAA
Northwestern Wildcats Independent Western Conference
Purdue Boilermakers Independent Western Conference
Southwestern Presbyterian Lynx Independent SIAA
Texas LonghornsIndependent SIAA
Texas Christian Horned FrogsProgram establishedIndependent
Tennessee VolunteersIndependent SIAA
Wisconsin Badgers Independent Western Conference

Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1896 CFA football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Colorado $ 2 0 0     5 0 0
  • $ Conference champion
1896 college football independents records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
California         6 2 2
Washington Agricultural         2 0 1
Oregon         2 1 0
Utah         3 2 0
Notre Dame         4 3 0
Stanford         2 1 1
Washington         2 3 0
Oregon Agricultural         1 2 0
USC         0 3 0
1896 SIAA football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
LSU + 4 0 0     6 0 0
Georgia + 3 0 0     4 0 0
Tennessee 1 0 0     4 0 0
Vanderbilt 3 0 1     3 2 2
Auburn 3 1 0     3 1 0
Georgia Tech 1 1 1     1 1 1
Texas 1 1 0     4 2 1
Alabama 1 1 0     2 1 0
Kentucky State 1 1 0     3 6 0
Sewanee 2 3 0     3 3 0
Tulane 1 2 0     3 2 0
Nashville 0 1 1     0 1 1
Mercer 0 2 1     0 2 1
North Carolina 0 1 0     3 4 1
SW Presbyterian 0 1 0     0 1 0
Ole Miss 0 2 0     1 2 0
Mississippi A&M 0 2 0     0 4 0
Clemson 0 0 0     2 1 0
  • + Conference co-champions
1896 Triangular Football League standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Dartmouth $ 2 0 0     5 2 1
Amherst 1 1 0     3 6 1
Williams 0 2 0     6 4 1
  • $ Conference champion
1896 Western Conference football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Wisconsin $ 2 0 1     7 1 1
Michigan 2 1 0     9 1 0
Northwestern 2 1 1     6 1 2
Chicago 3 2 0     15 2 1
Minnesota 1 2 0     8 2 0
Illinois 0 2 1     4 2 1
Purdue 0 2 1     4 2 1
  • $ Conference champion
1896 Western Interstate football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Iowa $ 2 0 1     7 1 1
Kansas 2 1 0     7 3 0
Nebraska 1 1 1     6 3 1
Missouri 0 3 0     7 5 0
  • $ Conference champion

Minor conferences

Conference Champion(s) Record
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Michigan State Normal Schoo 3–0–0

See also

References

  1. http://www.jhowell.net/cf/cf1896.htm
  2. Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
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