1881 Amherst football team

1881 Amherst football
Conference	Independent
Record	0–3–2
Head coach	None

1881 college football records

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
MIT			–					3	–	0	–	0
Richmond			–					2	–	0	–	0
Georgetown			–					1	–	0	–	0
Yale			–					5	–	0	–	1
Princeton			–					7	–	0	–	2
Penn State			–					1	–	0	–	0
Columbian University			–					1	–	0	–	1
Dartmouth			–					1	–	0	–	1
Harvard			–					6	–	1	–	1
Massachusetts			–					2	–	1	–	1
Kentucky University			–					2	–	1	–	0
Columbia			–					3	–	3	–	1
Rutgers			–					2	–	4	–	1
Stevens			–					1	–	2	–	1
Kentucky State College			–					1	–	2	–	0
CCNY			–					1	–	1	–	1
Amherst			–					0	–	3	–	2
Lewisburg			–					0	–	1	–	0
MIT			–					3	–	0	–	0
Wesleyan			–					0	–	1	–	0
Randolph–Macon			–					0	–	2	–	0
Michigan			–					0	–	3	–	0
Penn			–					0	–	5	–	0

The 1881 Amherst football team represented the Amherst College during the 1881 college football season.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
October 22		Massachusetts	Amherst, MA	T 0–0
October 29	2:30 p.m.	Yale	Amherst, MA	L 0–2	[1]
November 5		at Yale	Hamilton Park New Haven, CT	L 0–4	[2]
November 16		at Dartmouth	Hanover, NH	L 0–1	[3]
November 24		vs. Dartmouth	Hampden Park Springfield, MA	T 0–0	[4]

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References

1. "Yale and Amherst at Foot-Ball". The New York Times. October 31, 1881. p. 9 – via Newspapers.com.
2. "Yale Against Amherst". The New York Times. November 6, 1881. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "Sporting Notes". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 17, 1881. p. 1. Retrieved March 19, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
4. "Amherst Vs. Dartmouth—Game Unfinished". The Boston Daily Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. November 25, 1881. p. 2. Retrieved March 19, 2022 – via Newspapers.com .
5. "Amherst State Game by Game Results". College Football Data Warehouse. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
6. The Dartmouth. 1908. Archived from the original on January 3, 2014.
7. "College Items, Morning journal and courier, (New Haven [Conn.]), 19 Nov. 1881". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Lib. of Congress. Archived from the original on January 31, 2021.