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1886 Navy Midshipmen football team

1886 Navy Midshipmen football
Conference Independent
1886 record 3–3
Head coach None
Captain Clarance Stone
Home stadium Unknown
Seasons
« 1885 1887 »
1886 college football records
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Yale         9 0 1
Princeton         7 0 1
Michigan         2 0 0
Harvard         12 2 0
California         6 2 1
Massachusetts         2 1 0
Navy         3 3 0
Dartmouth         2 2 0
Rutgers         1 3 0
Northwestern         0 1 0
Vermont         0 1 0
Minnesota         0 12 0

The 1886 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy in the 1886 college football season. The team marked the second time that the school played a multiple-game season. The squad was captained by halfback Clarence Stone. The year began with consecutive wins over rivals St. John's College and Johns Hopkins, but then reversed with a loss to the former and a close victory over the latter. The year concluded with shutout losses to the Princeton reserve squad and Gallaudet. The season was the program's longest until 1890, when that year's team played seven games.

According to Ellsworth P. Bertholf's biographer C. Douglas Kroll, the first evidence of a form of football at the United States Naval Academy came in 1857, but the school's cadets lost interest in the game shortly afterward. The Naval Academy fielded its first official football program in 1879, headed by William John Maxwell. The team played one match, a 0–0 tie, after which the program went on hiatus for two years. It returned with the 1882 season under the guidance of player-coach Vaulx Carter. That season and the following two years of football were single-game seasons played against rival Johns Hopkins; Navy won two of the three years. The 1885 season was the first the school participated in a multi-game year, playing three games, including the first against nearby St. Johns College. The season was a disappointment, ending in a 1–2 record.


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