1880 Kentucky University football team

1880 Kentucky University football
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Seasons
1881 →
1880 college football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Princeton     4 0 1
Yale     4 0 1
Kentucky University     2 0 0
Michigan     1 0 0
Harvard     2 2 2
Penn     2 2 0
Rutgers     2 2 0
Columbia     1 2 0
Amherst     0 1 1
Massachusetts     0 1 1
Stevens     1 4 0
Brown     0 1 0
CCNY     0 1 0
Philadelphia Crescent AC     0 1 0
Toronto     0 1 0
Centre     0 2 0

The 1880 Kentucky University football team represented Kentucky University—now known as Transylvania University—in the 1880 college football season. This was Kentucky U's first ever season. The first game is claimed as the first game ever played in the south at Stoll Field, though Washington & Lee and VMI played earlier games; it's the first game in the state of Kentucky. The game was said to have resembled a combination of soccer and rugby.[1][2][3] Kentucky U won both its games over Centre College.

  1. ^ Becky Riddle. "Stoll Field". Retrieved March 13, 2015.
  2. ^ "Stoll Field Holds Many Memories". July 19, 1971. p. 11. Retrieved March 13, 2015 – via Google news. Open access icon
  3. ^ John E Kleber (February 5, 2015). The Kentucky Encyclopedia. p. 843. ISBN 9780813159010. Retrieved March 13, 2015 – via Google books. Open access icon