1886 Stevens football team

The 1886 Stevens Ducks football team represented Stevens Institute of Technology as an independent during the 1886 college football season. The team compiled a 0–7–1 record and was outscored by its opponents, 194 to 6.[1] They were also shut out in seven of their eight contests, nearly avoiding a scoreless year with a 61–6 loss to national champion Princeton.

1886 Stevens Ducks football
Conference	Independent
1886 record	0–7–1
Head coach	Unknown

1886 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					9	–	0	–	1
Princeton			–					7	–	0	–	1
Harvard			–					12	–	2	–	0
Lafayette			–					10	–	2	–	0
Williams			–					5	–	1	–	1
Massachusetts			–					2	–	1	–	0
Penn			–					9	–	7	–	1
Lehigh			–					4	–	3	–	1
Dartmouth			–					2	–	2	–	0
Amherst			–					3	–	4	–	0
Rutgers			–					1	–	3	–	0
Wesleyan			–					2	–	6	–	0
MIT			–					2	–	6	–	1
Vermont			–					0	–	1	–	0
Stevens			–					0	–	7	–	1
Tufts			–					0	–	8	–	0
Swarthmore			–							–
Trinity (CT)			–							–

1886 American Football Union football standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Crickets of Stevens Institute $	3	–	0	–	0			4	–	1	–	0
Staten Island Football Club	1	–	2	–	2			2	–	3	–	3
Unions of Columbia	1	–	2	–	0			1	–	3	–	0
Brooklyn Hill	0	–	1	–	2			3	–	5	–	3
Cutler School	0	–	0	–	0			–	–	–	–	–
Spartan Harriers	0	–	0	–	0			–	–	–	–	–

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 9	at Princeton	Princeton, NJ	L 0–58
October 13	Princeton	Hoboken, NJ	L 6–61
October 16	at Harvard	Jarvis Field Cambridge, MA	L 0–44
October 20	Yale	Hoboken, NJ	L 0–54
October 23	Lafayette	Hoboken, NJ	L 0–5
October 30	Lehigh	Hoboken, NJ	T 0–0
November 13	at Lehigh	Bethlehem, PA	L 0–14
November 20	at Lafayette	Easton, PA	L 0–58

Crickets of Stevens Institute

The Stevens Institute also operated a second team known as the Crickets, who joined the American Football Union for their inaugural 1886 season. The Crickets compiled a 4–1 record against their opponents in the American Football Union (Their official AFU record would be 3–0, as the Brooklyn Hill contest on October 10 was before the AFU championship series began and November 6 match against the Staten Island Football Club was declared off by the AFU Executive Committee because of poor officiating), and that was enough to crown them Union champions for the season, and to receive the AFU championship pennant in January of the next year.

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
October 10		Brooklyn Hill*	Parade Grounds, Prospect Park Brooklyn, NY	W 22–6	[2]
October 16	4:00 p.m.	Brooklyn Hill	Parade Grounds, Prospect Park Brooklyn, NY	W 8–6 (8–10 disputed)	[3][4]
October 23		Staten Island Football Club	St. George Cricket Grounds? Staten Island, NY	Unknown	[5]
October 30		Unions of Columbia		Likely postponed	[6]
November 2		Unions of Columbia	St. George Cricket Ground Hoboken, NJ	W 13–6	[7]
November 6		at Staten Island Football Club*	Hoboken, NJ	L 4–10	[8]
December 4		Staten Island Football Club	St. George Cricket Grounds Staten Island, NY	W 10–0	[9]
*Non-conference game

References

1. "1886 Stevens Ducks Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC.
2. "Two Football Games". The New York Times. 1886-10-10. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-08-12.
3. "Football Notes". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1886-10-18. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
4. "Football and Lacrosse". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1886-10-17. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
5. "Staten Island". The New York Times. 1886-10-21. p. 8. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
6. "City and Suburban News". The New York Times. 1886-10-30. p. 8. Retrieved 2020-08-12.
7. "Clipped From The New York Times". The New York Times. 1886-11-03. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-08-12.
8. "Victors At Football". The New York Times. 1886-11-07. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
9. "Football Matches". The Brooklyn Union. 1886-12-05. p. 8. Retrieved 2020-08-11.