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1892 college football season

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Champions
  
Champion
  
Yale Bulldogs football

Number of bowls
  
0

Start date
  
1892

Total # of teams
  
27

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The 1892 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Yale as having been selected national champions.

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On January 30, college football was first played in the state of Georgia or the Deep South when the Georgia Bulldogs defeated Mercer 7–6. On September 28 the first-ever American football game played outdoors at night took place, between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal. The lighting situation proved difficult and the game ended at halftime in a scoreless tie.

Conference establishments

  • The Western Interstate University Football Association began its first season of play
  • Conference standings

    The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:

    All-Americans

    The consensus All-America team included:

    Statistical leaders

  • Player scoring most points: Philip King, Princeton, 105
  • References

    1892 college football season Wikipedia


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