1883 Gallaudet Bison football team

The 1883 Gallaudet Bison football team represented the Gallaudet Bison of Gallaudet University, a college for deaf-mutes. In the team's inaugural season, it defeated Georgetown twice.[1] The players sewed their own uniforms, made of heavy canvas with black and white stripes.[2][3]

1883 Gallaudet Bison football
ConferenceIndependent
1883 record2–0
Head coachJohn B. Hotchkiss (1st season)
Home stadiumKendall Green
1883 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale      9 0 0
Gallaudet      2 0 0
Carleton      1 0 0
Johns Hopkins      1 0 0
Harvard      8 2 0
Princeton      7 1 0
Penn      6 2 1
Stevens      6 4 1
Massachusetts      1 1 0
Minnesota      1 1 0
Wesleyan      3 3 0
Williams      1 1 0
Fordham      4 5 0
Michigan      2 3 0
Lafayette      2 4 0
Johns Hopkins      1 2 0
Columbia      1 3 0
Rutgers      1 6 0
Amherst      0 1 0
Dartmouth      0 1 0
Hamline      0 1 0
Lewisburg      0 1 0
Navy      0 1 0
CCNY      0 2 0
Georgetown      0 2 0

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResult
November 20Georgetown
W 13–0
November 29Georgetown
  • Kendall Green
  • Washington, DC
W 15–0

See also

  • List of the first college football game in each US state

References

  1. "Georgetown Football: Game By Game". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-08-09.
  2. Richard Kimball. "Half a Man: Deaf Masculinity and Sports" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-11-17.
  3. Olof Hansno. "Gallaudet Athletics in the Early Eighties". The Silent Worker. 36 (6): 274.
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