The 1883 Columbia 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

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

as an independent during the

1883 college football season The 1883 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 compiled a 1–3 record and was outscored by a total of . The team had no coach. W. N. Eldridge was the team captain.

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