1883 Gallaudet Bison football team explained
| Year: | 1883 |
| Team: | Gallaudet Bison |
| Sport: | football |
| Conference: | Independent |
| Record: | 2–0 |
| Head Coach: | John B. Hotchkiss |
| Hc Year: | 1st |
| Stadium: | Kendall Green |
| Prev Year: | none |
The 1883 Gallaudet Bison football team represented the Gallaudet University, a college for deaf-mutes, during the 1883 college football season. In the team's inaugural season, it defeated Georgetown twice.[1] The players sewed their own uniforms, made of heavy canvas with black and white stripes.[2] [3]
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Notes and References
- Web site: Georgetown Football: Game By Game. August 9, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924031436/http://www.hoyafootball.com/games/game-1880s.htm. September 24, 2015. dead.
- Web site: Half a Man: Deaf Masculinity and Sports. Richard Kimball. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151117031556/https://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/kimballsportpaper.pdf. November 17, 2015.
- Gallaudet Athletics in the Early Eighties . The Silent Worker . Olof Hansno . 274 . 36 . 6 .
