The 1888 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing
Yale
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as having been selected
national champions. October 18 saw the first intercollegiate game in the state of
North Carolina
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when
Wake Forest defeated
North Carolina
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6–4. The first "scientific game" occurred on Thanksgiving of the same year when North Carolina played Duke (then Trinity). Duke won 16 to 0.
Conference and program changes
Statistical leaders
*Player scoring most points:
Knowlton Ames, Princeton, 243
Conference standings
The following is a potentially incomplete list of conference standings:
Independents
References
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