The 1882 Lafayette football team was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

team that represented

Lafayette College Lafayette College is a private liberal arts college in Easton, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter and other citizens in Easton, the college first held classes in 1832. The founders voted to name the college after General Laf ...

as an independent during the

1882 college football season The 1882 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Yale as having been selected national champions National champions are corporations which are technically private bu ...

. The team was the first to play intercollegiate football for Lafayette, compiling an 0–2 record. Henry Craven was the team captain, and W. R. Wilson was the manager. In the first game of the season, 1882 Rutgers Queensmen football teamscored eight touchdowns and no goals; Lafayette scored three touchdowns and no goals. In the second game, Lafayette lost to Penn.

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Lafayette Lafayette or La Fayette may refer to: People * Lafayette (name), a list of people with the surname Lafayette or La Fayette or the given name Lafayette * House of La Fayette, a French noble family ** Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757� ...

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