# 1892 college football season

The 1892 college football season was the season of American football played among colleges and universities in the United States during the 1892–93 academic year.
The 1892 Yale Bulldogs football team, led by head coach Walter Camp, compiled a perfect 13–0 record, outscored opponents by a total of 429 to 0, and has been recognized as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis. Yale's 1892 season was part of a 37-game winning streak that began at the end of the 1890 season and continued into the 1893 season.
All eleven players selected by Caspar Whitney and Walter Camp to the 1892 All-America college football team came from the Big Three (Yale, Harvard, and Princeton). The selections included center William H. Lewis, the first African-American All-American. Five of the honorees have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame: quarterback Philip King, fullback Charley Brewer (Harvard), end Frank Hinkey (Yale), tackle Marshall Newell (Harvard), and guard Art Wheeler (Princeton).
Several colleges and universities in the Deep South established football programs in 1892, including Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Georgia Tech, and South Carolina. In the first college football game in the region, Georgia defeated Mercer on January 30, 1892.
On September 28, 1892, the first football game played outdoors at night took place, between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal. The lighting proved difficult and the game ended at halftime in a scoreless tie.
On December 27, 1892, the first game played between two historically black colleges and universities was played between Livingstone College and Biddle College at Livingstone's campus in Salisbury, North Carolina, with Biddle defeating Livingstone.

## Conference and program changes
### Conference establishments

* The Western Interstate University Football Association began its first season of play

### Membership changes

| School | 1891 Conference | 1892 Conference |
| Alabama Cadets | Program Established | Independent |
| Agricultural & Mechanical of Alabama Tigers | Program Established | Independent |
| Georgia Bulldogs | Program Established | Independent |
| Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | Program Established | Independent |
| Iowa Hawkeyes | Independent | WIUFA |
| Iowa State Cyclones | Program established | Independent |
| Kansas Jayhawks | Independent | WIUFA |
| Mercer Baptists | Program Established | Independent |
| Missouri Tigers | Independent | WIUFA |
| Nebraska Bugeaters | Independent | WIUFA |
| San Jose State Normal Spartans | Program Established | Independent |
| South Carolina football | Program Established | Independent |
| Utah Utes | Program Established | Independent |

## Conference standings

The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:
1892 Colorado Football Association standings :
| 1892 Colorado Football Association standings vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Colorado Mines $   –   –   Colorado   –  3 –2 –0 Colorado Agricultural   –  2 –2 –0 $ – Conference champion | 1892 Indiana Intercollegiate Athletic Association football standings vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Purdue $ 4 –0 –08 –0 –0 Butler 4 –1 –05 –1 –0 Wabash 1 –4 –01 –4 –0 Indiana 0 –4 –00 –4 –0 $ – Conference champion | 1892 Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest football standings vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Minnesota $ 3 –0 –05 –0 –0 Wisconsin 2 –2 –04 –3 –0 Michigan 1 –2 –07 –5 –0 Northwestern 1 –3 –06 –4 –2 $ – Conference champion |
| 1892 New England Intercollegiate Football Association standings vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Amherst $ 2 –0 –09 –5 –0 Dartmouth 1 –1 –05 –3 –0 Williams 0 –2 –04 –7 –0 $ – Conference champion | 1892 Western Interstate University Football Association standings vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Kansas $ 3 –0 –07 –1 –0 Nebraska 1 –1 –12 –2 –1 Missouri 1 –2 –01 –2 –0 Iowa 0 –2 –13 –2 –1 $ – Conference champion |

### Independents

1892 Eastern college football independents records :
| 1892 Eastern college football independents records vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Yale   –  13 –0 –0 Washington & Jefferson   –  4 –0 –0 Colgate   –  3 –0 –0 Penn   –  15 –1 –0 Cornell   –  10 –1 –0 Harvard   –  10 –1 –0 Princeton   –  12 –2 –0 Penn State   –  5 –1 –0 Tufts   –  8 –2 –0 Navy   –  5 –2 –0 Army   –  3 –1 –1 Swarthmore   –  7 –3 –0 Western Univ. Penn.   –  4 –2 –0 Franklin & Marshall   –  4 –3 –0 Brown   –  4 –4 –2 Bucknell   –  2 –2 –0 Fordham   –  2 –2 –0 Stevens   –  1 –1 –0 Lafayette   –  5 –7 –0 Massachusetts   –  4 –6 –2 Rutgers   –  3 –5 –1 Geneva   –  2 –4 –0 Lehigh   –  3 –6 –0 Wesleyan   –  1 –7 –1 Syracuse   –  0 –8 –1 Drexel   –  0 –1 –0 NYU   –  0 –1 –0 | 1892 Midwestern college football independents records vteConfOverall TeamW L TW 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 | 1892 Southern college football independents records vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Centre   –  6 –0 –0 Biddle   –  1 –0 –0 Furman   –  1 –0 –0 Mercer   –  1 –0 –0 North Carolina A&M   –  1 –0 –0 Virginia Military   –  4 –0 –1 Wake Forest   –  4 –0 –1 Johns Hopkins   –  7 –1 –0 North Carolina   –  5 –1 –0 Central (KY)   –  4 –1 –0 Sewanee   –  5 –1 –1 Navy   –  5 –2 –0 Georgetown   –  4 –2 –1 Virginia   –  3 –2 –1 Vanderbilt   –  4 –4 –0 Alabama   –  2 –2 –0 Auburn   –  2 –2 –0 Georgia   –  1 –1 –0 Virginia A&M   –  1 –1 –0 Western Maryland   –  0 –0 –1 Richmond   –  2 –3 –0 Delaware   –  1 –2 –2 Kentucky A&M   –  2 –4 –1 Tennessee   –  2 –5 –0 Trinity (NC)   –  1 –3 –0 Hampden–Sydney   –  0 –1 –0 Livingstone   –  0 –1 –0 Maryville (TN)   –  0 –1 –0 South Carolina   –  0 –1 –0 Georgia Tech   –  0 –3 –0 Maryland   –  0 –3 –0 |
| 1892 Far West college football independents records vteConfOverall TeamW L TW L T Saint Mary's   –  1 –0 –0 Utah Agricultural   –  1 –0 –0 Stanford   –  1 –0 –2 California   –  2 –1 –1 Gonzaga   –  0 –0 –1 Washington   –  1 –1 –0 San Jose State   –  0 –1 –0 Utah   –  0 –1 –0 |

## Awards and honors
### All-Americans

The consensus All-America team included:
| Position | Name | Height | Weight (lbs.) | Class | Hometown | Team |
| QB | Philip King | 5'6" | 154 | Jr. | Washington, D. C. | Princeton |
| HB | Vance McCormick | | | Sr. | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania | Yale |
| HB | Harry Thayer | | | Sr. | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Penn |
| FB | Charley Brewer | 5'9" | 150 | Fr. | Hopkinton, Massachusetts | Harvard |
| E | Frank Hinkey | 5'9" | 150 | So. | Tonawanda, New York | Yale |
| T | Alexander Hamilton Wallis | | | Sr. | Jersey City, New Jersey | Yale |
| G | Art Wheeler | | | So. | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Princeton |
| C | William H. Lewis | | 175 | Jr. | Petersburg, Virginia | Harvard |
| G | Bert Waters | | | So. | Boston, Massachusetts | Harvard |
| T | Marshall Newell | 5'7" | 168 | So. | Great Barrington, Massachusetts | Harvard |
| E | Frank Hallowell | | | Sr. | Medford, Massachusetts | Harvard |

### Statistical leaders

* Player scoring most points: Philip King, Princeton, 105