1888 Wake Forest Baptists football team

The 1888 Wake Forest Baptists football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest College during the 1888 college football season. In its first year of intercollegiate football, the team defeated North Carolina by a 6–4 score in a game played on October 18, 1888, at the State Fair Grounds in Raleigh, North Carolina.[1] After the game, The News & Observer wrote:

"Decidedly one of the most interesting features of the whole fair was the game of foot ball yesterday between Wake Forest and Chapel Hill, resulting in a victory for Wake Forest. The game was exciting and was played by excellent teams on both sides. It was witnessed by a tremendous crowd. The players were uniformed and were a skilled and active set of boys."[2]

1888 Wake Forest Baptists football
ConferenceIndependent
1888 record2–1
Head coachW. C. Dowd (1st season)
1888 Southern college football independents records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Georgetown   –    4 –2 –0
Trinity (NC)   –    2 –1 –0
Virginia   –    2 –1 –0
Wake Forest   –    2 –1 –0
Johns Hopkins   –    6 –5 –0
Richmond   –    1 –2 –0
North Carolina   –    1 –3 –0
Navy   –    1 –4 –0
Gallaudet   –      –  
Randolph–Macon   –      –  
St. John's (MD)   –      –  

W. C. Dowd was the coach of the Wake Forest team. The game was the first intercollegiate football game played in the state of North Carolina.[3] The game was also the first in the history of the North Carolina Tar Heels football program.[4]

Schedule
DateOpponentSiteResult
October 18vs. North Carolina
W 6–4
May 1vs. North CarolinaRaleigh, NCL 0–33
May 29vs. Trinity (NC)Raleigh, NCW 32–0
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References
  1. "Red Letter Dates in Wake Forest Athletic History" (PDF). Wake Forest University. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
  2. "Senator Vance and an Overwhelming Crowd Yesterday". The News & Observer. October 19, 1888. p. 4.
  3. Andrea Adelson (January 26, 2015). "UNC, Wake Forest deserve credit for schedule choice". ESPN.com.
  4. Lawrence Giffin (October 18, 2012). "One Hundred and Twenty-Four Years of Tar Heel Football". UNC University Library.
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