1883 Gallaudet Bison football team

1883 Gallaudet Bison football
Conference	Independent
Record	2–0
Head coach	John B. Hotchkiss (1st season)
Home stadium	Kendall Green
Seasons 1884 →

1883 college football records

v t e	Conf.							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					9	–	0	–	0
Gallaudet			–					2	–	0	–	0
Carleton			–					1	–	0	–	0
Johns Hopkins			–					1	–	0	–	0
NYU			–					1	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					8	–	2	–	0
Princeton			–					7	–	1	–	0
Penn			–					6	–	2	–	1
Stevens			–					6	–	4	–	1
Massachusetts			–					1	–	1	–	0
Minnesota			–					1	–	1	–	0
Wesleyan			–					3	–	3	–	0
Williams			–					1	–	1	–	0
Fordham			–					4	–	5	–	0
Michigan			–					2	–	3	–	0
Lafayette			–					2	–	4	–	0
Johns Hopkins			–					1	–	2	–	0
Columbia			–					1	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	6	–	0
Amherst			–					0	–	1	–	0
Dartmouth			–					0	–	1	–	0
Hamline			–					0	–	1	–	0
Lewisburg			–					0	–	1	–	0
Navy			–					0	–	1	–	0
CCNY			–					0	–	2	–	0
Columbian University			–					0	–	2	–	0
Georgetown			–					0	–	2	–	0

The 1883 Gallaudet Bison football team represented the Gallaudet University, a college for deaf people, during the 1883 college football season. In the team's inaugural season, it defeated Georgetown twice. ^[1] The players sewed their own uniforms, made of heavy canvas with black and white stripes. ^{[2] [3]}

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
November 20	Georgetown	Kendall Green Washington, DC	W 13–0
November 29	Georgetown	Kendall Green Washington, DC	W 15–0

See also

• List of the first college football game in each US state

References

1. "Georgetown Football: Game By Game". Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved August 9, 2015.
2. Richard Kimball. "Half a Man: Deaf Masculinity and Sports" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 17, 2015.
3. Olof Hansno. "Gallaudet Athletics in the Early Eighties". The Silent Worker. 36 (6): 274.^{[ permanent dead link ]}