1888 Michigan Wolverines football team

1888 Michigan Wolverines football
ConferenceIndependent
Record2–1
Head coach
  • None
CaptainJames E. Duffy
Home stadiumAnn Arbor Fairgrounds
Seasons
← 1887
1889 →
1888 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Cincinnati     1 0 1
Notre Dame     1 0 0
Washington University     1 0 0
Michigan     2 1 0
Northwestern     2 1 0
Lake Forest     2 2 0
Minnesota     1 1 0
Indiana     0 0 1
Miami (OH)     0 0 1
Albion     0 2 0

The 1888 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1888 college football season. The team compiled a 2–1 record and outscored its opponents by a combined score of 94 to 36. The team scored 76 points against Albion College, a single-game Michigan record that stood until Fielding H. Yost's 1901 "Point-a-Minute" team scored 128 points against Buffalo. The team closed its season with a Thanksgiving Day game against a "picked team" from the Chicago University Club that The New York Times called "undoubtedly the greatest football event that ever took place in the West."[1] The captain of the 1888 team was halfback James E. Duffy who had set the world's record for dropkick distance in 1886.

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