1873 college football season

Depiction of Harvard-McGill game.

Total # of teams

Regular season

October 25 to December 6

Number of bowls

College football seasons
« 1872	1874 »

The 1873 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Princeton as having been selected national champions.^[1]

The Harvard vs. McGill games played in May, 1874, were the first rugby-style football games played in the United States.^[2]

Organized intercollegiate football was first played in the state of Virginia and/or the Southern United States when Washington & Lee defeated VMI 4 to 2.^[3] Some industrious students of the two schools organized a game for October 23, 1869 – but it was rained out.^[4] Students of the University of Virginia were playing pickup games of the kicking-style of football as early as 1870, and some accounts even claim it organized a game against Washington and Lee College in 1871...but no record has been found of the score of this contest. Due to scantness of records of the prior matches some will claim Virginia v. Pantops Academy November 13, 1887, as the first game in Virginia.

Conference standings

1873 college football records
	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
Princeton			–		2	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–		1	–	0	–	1
Washington and Lee			–		4	–	0	–	0
Stevens Tech			–		2	–	1	–	0
Yale			–		2	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–		2	–	1	–	0
Rutgers			–		1	–	2	–	0
McGill			–		0	–	1	–	1
Eton Players			–		0	–	1	–	0
CCNY			–		0	–	1	–	0
NYU			–		0	–	1	–	0
Princeton Seminary			–		0	–	1	–	0
VMI			–		0	–	4	–	0

References

↑ Official 2009 NCAA Division I Football Records Book (PDF). Indianapolis, IN: The National Collegiate Athletic Association. August 2009. p. 70. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
↑ "No Christian End!" (PDF). The Journey to Camp: The Origins of American Football to 1889. Professional Football Researchers Association. Retrieved 2010-01-26.
↑ "A History of Washington and Lee Athletics". Retrieved February 9, 2015.
↑ Melvin I. Smith. Evolvements of Early American Foot Ball: Through the 1890/91 Season. p. 53.

NCAA football seasons

Pre-regulation	1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905

IAAUS/NCAA	1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955

NCAA University Division/ Division I	1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977

NCAA Division I-A/FBS	1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

NCAA Division I-AA/FCS	1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

NCAA Division II	1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

NCAA Division III	1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

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