1880 Michigan Wolverines football team

1880 Michigan Wolverines football
ConferenceIndependent
Record1–0
Head coach
  • None
CaptainJohn Chase
Home stadiumNone
Seasons
← 1879
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 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1880 college football season. The team was the second intercollegiate football team to represent the University of Michigan. They played one game, defeating the team from the University of Toronto, 13 to 6, at the Toronto Lacrosse Club. Michigan scored two touchdowns and one goal; Toronto scored three safety touchdowns.

The team had no coach, and John Chase was the captain. Chase later became a general and commander of the Colorado National Guard in two of the most significant confrontations between American military forces and organized labor – the Colorado Labor Wars of 1903–1904 and the Ludlow Massacre of April 1914. The team's quarterback, Edmond H. Barmore, went into the business of building steamships from 1881 to 1886 and later operated the Los Angeles Transfer Company for about 40 years.