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1892 college football season

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American college football season

1892 college football season
1892 Yale Bulldogs
Total No. of teams	27
Regular season	September 24 to November 26
Champion	Yale
← 1891 · football seasons · 1893 →

The1892 college football season was the season ofAmerican football played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1892–93 academic year.

The1892 Yale Bulldogs football team, led by head coachWalter Camp, compiled a perfect 13–0 record, outscored opponents by a total of 429 to 0, and has been recognized as thenational champion by theBillingsley Report,Helms Athletic Foundation,Houlgate System,National Championship Foundation, andParke H. Davis.^[1]^[2] Yale's 1892 season was part of a 37-game winning streak that began at the end of the 1890 season and continued into the 1893 season.

All eleven players selected byCaspar Whitney andWalter Camp to the1892 All-America college football team came from the Big Three (Yale,Harvard, andPrinceton). The selections included centerWilliam H. Lewis, the first African-American All-American. Five of the honorees have been inducted into theCollege Football Hall of Fame: quarterbackPhilip King, fullbackCharley Brewer (Harvard), endFrank Hinkey (Yale), tackleMarshall Newell (Harvard), and guardArt Wheeler (Princeton).

Several colleges and universities in theDeep South established football programs in 1892, includingAlabama,Auburn,Georgia, Georgia Tech, andSouth Carolina. In the first college football game in the region, Georgia defeatedMercer on January 30, 1892.

On September 28, 1892, the first football game played outdoors at night took place, between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal. The lighting proved difficult and the game ended at halftime in a scoreless tie.^[3]

On December 27, 1892,the first game played between two historically black colleges and universities was played betweenLivingstone College andBiddle College at Livingstone's campus inSalisbury, North Carolina, with Biddle defeating Livingstone.^[4]

Conference and program changes

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Conference establishments

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TheWestern Interstate University Football Association began its first season of play

Membership changes

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School	1891 Conference	1892 Conference
Alabama Cadets	Program Established	Independent
Agricultural & Mechanical of Alabama Tigers	Program Established	Independent
Georgia Bulldogs	Program Established	Independent
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets	Program Established	Independent
Iowa Hawkeyes	Independent	WIUFA
Iowa State Cyclones	Program established	Independent
Kansas Jayhawks	Independent	WIUFA
Mercer Baptists	Program Established	Independent
Missouri Tigers	Independent	WIUFA
Nebraska Bugeaters	Independent	WIUFA
San Jose State Normal Spartans	Program Established	Independent
South Carolina football	Program Established	Independent
Utah Utes	Program Established	Independent

Conference standings

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The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

1892 Colorado Football Association standings
v t e	Conf.			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Colorado Mines $		–				–
Colorado		–		3	–	2	–	0
Colorado Agricultural		–		2	–	2	–	0

$ – Conference champion

1892 Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings
v t e	Conf.					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Purdue $	4	–	0	–	0	8	–	0	–	0
Butler	4	–	1	–	0	5	–	1	–	0
Wabash	1	–	4	–	0	1	–	4	–	0
Indiana	0	–	4	–	0	0	–	4	–	0

$ – Conference champion

1892 Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest football standings
v t e	Conf.					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Minnesota $	3	–	0	–	0	5	–	0	–	0
Wisconsin	2	–	2	–	0	4	–	3	–	0
Michigan	1	–	2	–	0	7	–	5	–	0
Northwestern	1	–	3	–	0	6	–	4	–	2

$ – Conference champion

1892 New England Intercollegiate Football Association standings
v t e	Conf.					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Amherst $	2	–	0	–	0	9	–	5	–	0
Dartmouth	1	–	1	–	0	5	–	3	–	0
Williams	0	–	2	–	0	4	–	7	–	0

$ – Conference champion

1892 Western Interstate University Football Association standings
v t e	Conf.					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
Kansas $	3	–	0	–	0	7	–	1	–	0
Nebraska	1	–	1	–	1	2	–	2	–	1
Missouri	1	–	2	–	0	1	–	2	–	0
Iowa	0	–	2	–	1	3	–	2	–	1

$ – Conference champion

Independents

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1892 Eastern college football independents records
v t e	Conf.			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Yale		–		13	–	0	–	0
Washington & Jefferson		–		4	–	0	–	0
Colgate		–		3	–	0	–	0
Penn		–		15	–	1	–	0
Cornell		–		10	–	1	–	0
Harvard		–		10	–	1	–	0
Princeton		–		12	–	2	–	0
Penn State		–		5	–	1	–	0
Tufts		–		8	–	2	–	0
Navy		–		5	–	2	–	0
Army		–		3	–	1	–	1
Swarthmore		–		7	–	3	–	0
Western Univ. Penn.		–		4	–	2	–	0
Franklin & Marshall		–		4	–	3	–	0
Brown		–		4	–	4	–	2
Bucknell		–		2	–	2	–	0
Fordham		–		2	–	2	–	0
Stevens		–		1	–	1	–	0
Lafayette		–		5	–	7	–	0
Massachusetts		–		4	–	6	–	2
Rutgers		–		3	–	5	–	1
Geneva		–		2	–	4	–	0
Lehigh		–		3	–	6	–	0
Wesleyan		–		1	–	7	–	1
Syracuse		–		0	–	8	–	1
Drexel		–		0	–	1	–	0
NYU		–		0	–	1	–	0

1892 Midwestern college football independents records
v t e	Conf.			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Oberlin		–		7	–	0	–	0
Case		–		3	–	0	–	0
Iowa Agricultural		–		1	–	0	–	1
Notre Dame		–		1	–	0	–	1
Chicago		–		8	–	4	–	1
Michigan State Normal		–		2	–	1	–	0
Illinois		–		7	–	4	–	1
Ohio State		–		5	–	3	–	0
Washington University		–		3	–	2	–	0
Hillsdale		–		3	–	2	–	1
Doane		–		1	–	1	–	0
Heidelberg		–		1	–	1	–	0
Miami (OH)		–		2	–	2	–	0
Buchtel		–		3	–	4	–	0
Lake Forest		–		2	–	3	–	0
Cincinnati		–		1	–	2	–	0
Marquette		–		1	–	2	–	0
Ohio Wesleyan		–		1	–	3	–	0
Wittenberg		–		0	–	2	–	1
St. Ignatius College		–		0	–	1	–	0
Washburn		–		0	–	2	–	0
Kalamazoo		–		0	–	2	–	0

1892 Southern college football independents records
v t e	Conf.			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Centre		–		6	–	0	–	0
Biddle		–		1	–	0	–	0
Furman		–		1	–	0	–	0
North Carolina A&M		–		1	–	0	–	0
Virginia Military		–		4	–	0	–	1
Wake Forest		–		4	–	0	–	1
Johns Hopkins		–		7	–	1	–	0
North Carolina		–		5	–	1	–	0
Central (KY)		–		4	–	1	–	0
Sewanee		–		5	–	1	–	1
Navy		–		5	–	2	–	0
Georgetown		–		4	–	2	–	1
Virginia		–		3	–	2	–	1
Vanderbilt		–		4	–	4	–	0
Alabama		–		2	–	2	–	0
Auburn		–		2	–	2	–	0
Georgia		–		1	–	1	–	0
Virginia A&M		–		1	–	1	–	0
Western Maryland		–		0	–	0	–	1
Richmond		–		2	–	3	–	0
Delaware		–		1	–	2	–	2
Kentucky A&M		–		2	–	4	–	1
Tennessee		–		2	–	5	–	0
Mercer		–		1	–	2	–	0
Trinity (NC)		–		1	–	3	–	0
Hampden–Sydney		–		0	–	1	–	0
Livingstone		–		0	–	1	–	0
Maryville (TN)		–		0	–	1	–	0
South Carolina		–		0	–	1	–	0
Georgia Tech		–		0	–	3	–	0
Maryland		–		0	–	3	–	0

1892 Far West college football independents records
v t e	Conf.			Overall
Team	W	L	T	W		L		T
Saint Mary's		–		1	–	0	–	0
Utah Agricultural		–		1	–	0	–	0
Stanford		–		1	–	0	–	2
California		–		2	–	1	–	1
Gonzaga		–		0	–	0	–	1
Washington		–		1	–	1	–	0
San Jose Normal		–		0	–	1	–	0
Utah		–		0	–	1	–	0

Awards and honors

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All-Americans

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Main article:1892 College Football All-America Team

The consensusAll-America team included:

Position	Name	Height	Weight (lbs.)	Class	Hometown	Team
QB	Philip King	5'6"	154	Jr.	Washington, D. C.	Princeton
HB	Vance McCormick			Sr.	Harrisburg, Pennsylvania	Yale
HB	Harry Thayer			Sr.	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Penn
FB	Charley Brewer	5'9"	150	Fr.	Hopkinton, Massachusetts	Harvard
E	Frank Hinkey	5'9"	150	So.	Tonawanda, New York	Yale
T	Alexander Hamilton Wallis			Sr.	Jersey City, New Jersey	Yale
G	Art Wheeler			So.	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Princeton
C	William H. Lewis		175	Jr.	Petersburg, Virginia	Harvard
G	Bert Waters			So.	Boston, Massachusetts	Harvard
T	Marshall Newell	5'7"	168	So.	Great Barrington, Massachusetts	Harvard
E	Frank Hallowell			Sr.	Medford, Massachusetts	Harvard

Statistical leaders

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Player scoring most points:Philip King, Princeton, 105

References

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^National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015)."National Poll Rankings"(PDF).NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. RetrievedJanuary 4, 2016.
^"1892 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results".SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. RetrievedFebruary 27, 2017.
^"Mansfield eliminates Division II football program".ESPN.
^Mosley, Kyle T. (December 27, 2024)."HBCU Football: First-Ever Black College Football Game Celebrated".Sports Illustrated.Archived from the original on December 27, 2024. RetrievedJanuary 8, 2025.

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