1887 Virginia Orange and Blue football team
The 1887 Virginia Orange and Blue football team represented the University of Virginia as an independent during the 1887 college football season. They had no head coach and finished with a 0–0–1 record. Their only game was a 0–0 tie with Pantops Academy on November 13, 1887, considered Virginia’s first organized football game. Earlier, UVA students had played informal kicking-style games in the 1870s, and there are reports of an 1871 game against Washington and Lee with no recorded score.
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