1883 college football season

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The 1883 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]

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Conference standings

1883 college football records
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW 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

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References

  1. Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved October 16, 2009.