1881 college football season

American college football season

1881 college football season

1881 Yale Bulldogs

Total No. of teams| 22
Champion(s)| Princeton
Yale
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The 1881 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Princeton and Yale as having been selected national champions.[1]

## Conference and program changes

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Team | Former conference | New conference

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Richmond Colts | Program established | Independent
Georgetown | Program established | Independent
Penn State | Program established | Independent
Columbian University | Program established | Independent
Dartmouth | Program established | Independent
Kentucky State College | Program established | Independent
Lewisburg | Program established | Independent
MIT Engineers | Program established | Independent
Randolph–Macon Yellow Jackets | Program established | Independent

## Conference standings

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1881 college football records

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Team | W |   | L |   | T |  |  | W |   | L |   | T
MIT |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 3  | – | 0  | – | 0
Richmond |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 2  | – | 0  | – | 0
Georgetown |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 1  | – | 0  | – | 0
Yale |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 5  | – | 0  | – | 1
Princeton |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 7  | – | 0  | – | 2
Penn State |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 1  | – | 0  | – | 0
Columbian University |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 1  | – | 0  | – | 1
Dartmouth |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 1  | – | 0  | – | 1
Harvard |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 6  | – | 1  | – | 1
Massachusetts |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 2  | – | 1  | – | 1
Kentucky University |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 2  | – | 1  | – | 0
Columbia |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 3  | – | 3  | – | 1
Rutgers |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 2  | – | 4  | – | 1
Stevens |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 1  | – | 2  | – | 1
Kentucky State College |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 1  | – | 2  | – | 0
CCNY |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 1  | – | 1  | – | 1
Amherst |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 0  | – | 3  | – | 2
Lewisburg |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 0  | – | 1  | – | 0
MIT |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 3  | – | 0  | – | 0
Wesleyan |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 0  | – | 1  | – | 0
Randolph–Macon  |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 0  | – | 2  | – | 0
Michigan |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 0  | – | 3  | – | 0
Penn |   |  | – |  |   |  |  | 0  | – | 5  | – | 0

## References

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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.

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