1888 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team

1888 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football

Conference	Independent
1888 record	2–1
Head coach	W. C. Dowd (1st year)

The 1888 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest College during the 1888 college football season. In its first year of intercollegiate football, the team defeated North Carolina by a 6-4 score in a game played on October 18, 1888, at the State Fair Grounds in Raleigh, North Carolina.^[1] After the game, The News & Observer wrote:

"Decidedly one of the most interesting features of the whole fair was the game of foot ball yesterday between Wake Forest and Chapel Hill, resulting in a victory for Wake Forest. The game was exciting and was played by excellent teams on both sides. It was witnessed by a tremendous crowd. The players were uniformed and were a skilled and active set of boys."^[2]

W. C. Dowd was the coach of the Wake Forest team. The game was the first intercollegiate football game played in the state of North Carolina.^[3] The game was also the first in the history of the North Carolina Tar Heels football program.^[4]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Location	Result
10/18/1888	UNC	Raleigh, NC	W 6-4
5/01/1889	UNC	Raleigh, NC	L 0-33
5/29/1889	Trinity	Raleigh, NC	W 32-0

References

↑ "Red Letter Dates in Wake Forest Athletic History" (PDF). Wake Forest University. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
↑ "Senator Vance and an Overwhelming Crowd Yesterday". The News & Observer. October 19, 1888. p. 4.
↑ Andrea Adelson (January 26, 2015). "UNC, Wake Forest deserve credit for schedule choice". ESPN.com.
↑ Lawrence Giffin (October 18, 2012). "One Hundred and Twenty-Four Years of Tar Heel Football". UNC University Library.

Wake Forest Demon Deacons football

Venues	Groves Stadium (1940–1955) Bowman Gray Stadium (1956–1965) BB&T Field (1968–present)

Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Tobacco Road North Carolina–Wake Forest rivalry

Culture & lore	Demon Deacon The 5th Quarter

People	NFL draftees Statistical leaders

Seasons	1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

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