The 1886 Stevens football team represented

Stevens Institute of Technology Stevens Institute of Technology is a private research university in Hoboken, New Jersey. Founded in 1870, it is one of the oldest technological universities in the United States and was the first college in America solely dedicated to mechanical ...

as an independent during the

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. The team compiled a 0–7–1 record and was outscored by its opponents, 194 to 6. They were also shut out in seven of their eight contests, nearly avoiding a scoreless year with a 61–6 loss to national champion Princeton.

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Crickets of Stevens Institute

The Stevens Institute also operated a second team known as the Crickets, who joined the

American Football Union The American Football Union (AFU) was a coalition of amateur, semi-professional, and collegiate club football teams that operated from 1886 to 1895 in the New York metropolitan area. Although the minor league was practically inconsequential and ob ...

for their inaugural 1886 season. The Crickets compiled a 4–1 record against their opponents in the American Football Union (Their official AFU record would be 3–0, as the Brooklyn Hill contest on October 10 was before the AFU championship series began and November 6 match against the Staten Island Football Club was declared off by the AFU Executive Committee because of poor officiating), and that was enough to crown them Union champions for the season, and to receive the AFU championship pennant in January of the next year.

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Stevens football The Stevens football team represented the Stevens Institute of Technology in college football. History Stevens was one of the first five college football teams. In 1873, representatives of Princeton, Yale, Columbia, and Rutgers Rutgers Uni ...

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