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I-A Winning Percentage 1880-1889 (10 years)


(Teams not qualifying for the table are listed at the bottom.)

Rank Team name Winning
Percentage
Games
Won
Games
Lost
Games
Tied
Games
Played

1 Yale 0.96154 86 2 3 91
2 Princeton 0.90449 78 6 5 89
3t Villanova 0.80978 73 16 3 92
3t Harvard 0.80978 73 16 3 92
5 Michigan 0.66667 18 9 0 27
6 Dartmouth 0.59091 18 12 3 33
7 Lafayette 0.56667 32 24 4 60
8 Pennsylvania 0.53883 54 46 3 103
9 Minnesota 0.53846 7 6 0 13
10 Navy 0.53704 14 12 1 27

11 Fordham 0.46154 6 7 0 13
12 Colorado College 0.42857 3 4 0 7
13 Rutgers 0.31667 18 40 2 60
14 Columbia 0.29688 8 21 3 32

Teams not qualifying for the Win % table

Team Reason
disqualified
Team Reason
disqualified

Brown 30% years Bucknell 40% years
California 30% years Cincinnati 20% years
Colorado Mines 20% years Cornell 30% years
Denver 1885 first Duke 20% years
Furman 10% years Georgetown 30% years

Indiana 30% years Iowa 10% years
Kentucky 10% years Miami-Ohio 20% years
New York U 20% years North Carolina 20% years
Northwestern 30% years Notre Dame 30% years
Penn State 30% years Purdue 20% years

Southern Cal 20% years Syracuse 10% years
Virginia 20% years Wake Forest 20% years
Washington 10% years Wisconsin 10% years

What the "reason disqualified" values mean:
  • "n last" - Team's last data was in year n, before the end of the range (1889).
  • "n first" - Team's first data was in year n, after the start of the range (1880).
  • "n% years" - Team had data for only n% of years in the range, below the required 50%.


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