1892 Chicago Maroons football team

1892 Chicago Maroons football
The first team fielded by the University of Chicago
ConferenceIndependent
Record8–4–1
Head coach
Base defense7–2–2
Seasons
1893 →
1892 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Oberlin     7 0 0
Case     3 0 0
Iowa Agricultural     1 0 1
Notre Dame     1 0 1
Chicago     8 4 1
Michigan State Normal     2 1 0
Illinois     7 4 1
Ohio State     5 3 0
Washington University     3 2 0
Hillsdale     3 2 1
Doane     1 1 0
Heidelberg     1 1 0
Miami (OH)     2 2 0
Buchtel     3 4 0
Lake Forest     2 3 0
Cincinnati     1 2 0
Marquette     1 2 0
Ohio Wesleyan     1 3 0
Wittenberg     0 2 1
St. Ignatius College     0 1 0
Washburn     0 2 0
Kalamazoo     0 2 0

The 1892 Chicago Maroons football team represented the University of Chicago during the 1892 college football season. Former Yale All-American, Amos Alonzo Stagg, was the team's head coach and also played (at age 30) at the end position. On October 8, 1892, one week into the university's first semester, the football team played its first game, defeating Hyde Park High School, 14–0. The team won its first six games in eleven days, plyaing matches against local high schools and the Englewood YMCA. Starting on October 22, the team played seven intercollegiate games, compiling a 2–4–1 record in those games. The two victories against college teams were games with Lake Forest and Illinois.[1]

The team featured three older players. Stagg, at age 30, had previously played college football at Yale; Andy Wyant, at age 25, had played for Bucknell dating back to 1887; and Joseph Raycroft, at age 24, was Stagg's assistant athletic director and also played quarterback. Stagg and Wyant were both later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.

  1. ^ "1892 Chicago Maroons Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved August 20, 2015.