1879 Amherst football team

1879 Amherst football
Conference	Independent
Record	1–1
Head coach	None

1879 college football records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Princeton			–					4	–	0	–	1
Yale			–					3	–	0	–	2
Massachusetts			–					1	–	0	–	0
Michigan			–					1	–	0	–	1
Haverford			–					1	–	0	–	1
Harvard			–					2	–	1	–	2
Penn			–					2	–	2	–	0
Amherst			–					1	–	1	–	0
Navy			–					0	–	0	–	1
McGill			–					0	–	0	–	1
Toronto			–					0	–	0	–	1
Stevens			–					1	–	2	–	5
Rutgers			–					1	–	2	–	3
Pennsylvania Military			–					0	–	1	–	1
NYU			–					0	–	2	–	1
Racine			–					0	–	1	–	0
Swarthmore			–					0	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–					0	–	3	–	2

The 1879 Amherst football team represented Amherst College during the 1879 college football season. The team beat Williston[1] and lost to Massachusetts.[2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
October 18[3]	Williston		W 30–6
November 22	Massachusetts Agricultural		L 0–4

References

1. "Amherst College Football Series". Archived from the original on January 18, 2007. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
2. Football - YouMass
3. Amherst College Olio 1881. 1881. p. 90.