In this year, Frank Dole became the University of Pennsylvania's first football coach, and the team began playing games on the newly-built athletic field at 37th and Spruce Streets, later the site of the dormitories in the Quadrangle.

Members:

• Geo. H. Frazier, '87 (captain)
• Paul Thompson, post grad (captain)
• F.W.W. Graham, '87
• C.A. Griscom, Jr., '87
• S.F. Houston, '87
• S. Hutchinson, '88
• Ed. M. Jeffreys, '86
• Gus. Remak, Jr., Law
• R.L. Rutter, '86
• J.P. Tunis, '86
• Wm. T. Wright, '87

Substitutes:

• L.H. Alexander, '88
• N. Downs, '88 Medical
• J.H. Dewey, '88
• E. DeF. Miel, '88
• G.W. Pepper, '87
• F.W. Ralston, '87
• William Holmes Salter, '87