Centre College Football, 1891-1900
Centre College proved to be fertile ground for cultivating champions from the start when it fielded its first football team in 1891. In its first two seasons, the team went undefeated: 4-0 in 1891 and 6-0 in 1892. The following year they extended the streak by winning their first four before finally losing one. It would take a lot of research to verify, but I doubt very much that any other college in the initial years of its football program won the first fourteen games it scheduled. The game was different then with the field being 110 yards long with no end zones: in scoring you only received four points for a touchdown, two points for the kick after a touchdown, and five points for a field goal, which was often drop-kicked. Passing was illegal, although the lateral and two-hand passing were allowed as long as the ball did not go forward. The punting game was an ersatz version of a passing game because if you punted, your own players could recov...