1882 Clifton Athletic Club football team

1882 Johns Hopkins Blue Jays football
ConferenceIndependent
Record0–2
Home stadiumDruid Hill Park
Seasons
1883 →
1882 college football records
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Yale     8 0 0
Colorado College     1 0 0
Navy     1 0 0
Richmond     1 0 0
Harvard     7 1 0
Fordham     7 1 0
Princeton     7 2 0
Wesleyan     3 1 0
Rutgers     6 4 0
Columbian University     0 0 1
Dartmouth     1 1 0
Lake Forest     1 1 0
Minnesota     1 1 0
Northwestern     1 1 0
Stevens     1 1 1
Amherst     2 3 0
Penn     2 4 0
CCNY     1 2 0
MIT     1 4 0
Randolph–Macon     0 1 0
Clifton AC     0 1 0
Lafayette     0 2 0
McGill     0 2 0
NYU     0 2 0
Massachusetts     0 3 0
Columbia     0 5 0

The 1882 Clifton Athletic Club football team represented Johns Hopkins University in the sport of American football during the 1882 college football season. Hopkins' first team was assembled in 1881, and spent an entire year training and learning a version of the game. Their sport, which was closer to rugby, was played in Druid Hill Park. After the training, the team planned a two-game 1882 season. The squad had to play the season under the title of the Clifton Athletic Club, due to the school's policy on the sport of football. The first was a practice game with the Baltimore Athletic Club, played on October 7. The Hopkins team lost the contest 4–0. The following game was their first true game, to be played against the Naval Academy.[1][2]

Cadet Vaulx Carter reintroduced football to the United States Naval Academy. Acting as both a player and a coach, Carter procured a single game for the Academy to play. The team challenged the Baltimore-based Clifton Athletic Club to a game during the Academy's Thanksgiving Day athletic carnival. The Clifton team was actually made up of players from Johns Hopkins, who were unable to play as their school due to the institution's harsh opinion on football.[3][4]

  1. ^ Patterson (2000), p. 3
  2. ^ Bealle, Morris Allison (1951). Gangway for Navy: The Story of Football at the United States Naval Academy, 1879–1950
  3. ^ Kroll (2002), p. 14
  4. ^ Patterson (2000), p. 21

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