- Source: 1896 college football season
The 1896 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book listing Lafayette and Princeton as having been selected national champions. Lafayette finished with an 11–0–1 record while Princeton had a 10–0–1 record. In the second game of the season for both teams, Lafayette and Princeton played to a scoreless tie. Both teams had signature wins: Lafayette defeated Penn 6–4, giving the Quakers their only loss of the season, while Princeton defeated previously unbeaten Yale, 24–6, on Thanksgiving Day in the last game of the season. Princeton was retroactively named the 1896 national champions by the Billingsley Report, the Helms Athletic Foundation, the Houlgate System, and Lafayette and Princeton were named national co-champions by the National Championship Foundation and Parke Davis.
Conference and program changes
= Conference changes
=The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives, commonly known as the Western Conference and the precursor to the modern Big Ten Conference, began its first season of play in 1896 with seven founding members from across the Midwest.
= Membership changes
=Conference standings
= Major conference standings
== Independents
== Minor conferences
=See also
1896 College Football All-America Team
References
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- 1896 college football season
- College of Emporia Fighting Presbies football, 1893–1899
- 1896 Boston College football team
- 1896 Pittsburgh College football team
- 1896 College Football All-America Team
- 1896 Lafayette football team
- 1896 Detroit College Tigers football team
- 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season
- 1896 Kentucky State College Blue and White football team
- 1896 Colgate football team
