1887 Virginia Orange and Blue football team

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1887 Virginia Orange and Blue football
ConferenceIndependent
Record0–0–1
Head coach
  • None
Seasons
1888  
1887 Southern college football independents records
Conf.Overall
TeamW L TW L T
Navy   3 1 0
Georgetown   2 1 0
Richmond   1 1 0
Virginia   0 0 1
Johns Hopkins   0 2 0

The 1887 Virginia Orange and Blue football team represented the University of Virginia as an independent during the 1887 college football season. [1] On November 13, 1887, the Cavaliers and Pantops Academy fought to a scoreless tie in the first organized football game in the state of Virginia. [2] Students at UVA were playing pickup games of the kicking-style of football as early as 1870, and some accounts even claim that some industrious ones organized a game against Washington and Lee College in 1871, just two years after Rutgers and Princeton's historic first game in 1869. But no record has been found of the score of this contest.

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
December 15at Pantops Academy Pantops, VA T 0–0 [3]

References

  1. Galen. "Too Much Information 2012: The Virginia Edition". Black Shoe Diaries.
  2. Ratcliffe, Jerry (2008). University of Virginia Football Vault. Atlanta, Ga.: Whitman Publishing, LLC. p. 8. ISBN   978-0-7948-2647-5.
  3. "Albemarle; An ex-Senator shot at lively football". The Richmond Dispatch. December 16, 1887. Retrieved October 19, 2025 via Newspapers.com.