User:Murphanian777/Interhall football: List of Interhall football champions

List of interhall champions
This is a comprehensive list of the various champions of Notre Dame's interhall football league. Although the first non-varsity campus games began in 1887 (with some reports suggesting the sport arrived at Notre dame in 1885), it was not until the 1890-1891 season that teams under the identity of their residence hall played and were awarded an interhall championship.

On November 11, 1890, Brownson and Sorin halls played the first known interhall football contest, in what was deemed the "University Football Championship". Sorin won the contest by a single safety, with the final score a 2–0 Sorin victory.

Even after this monumental contest, hall teams were incredibly rare in the 19th century. Additional problems surrounded what constituted a hall football team. Many teams during the early interhall period could be known as "a Sorin Hall team", while identifying more with the team captain than their hall of residence. Carroll and St. Edward's halls were also controversial in their place among the hall teams. before 1906, Carroll Hall was home to the junior department of Notre Dame, while St. Edward's housed the Minim, or grammar school department.

These departments played far more often in the early years than any of the college teams, and particularly with the Carroll team, an argument can be made that they are the rightful interhall champions for the 1893-1894 season. They played a six-game "championship" series against the "Ex-Carrollites", which was the name for a team from Brownson Hall. The Carrollites won the series 3–2–1, and so had the best claim to the championship of 1893. However, questions of whether these teams represented their respective halls in the contests is unknown, so ultimately the championship is unknown. To complicate the situation further, three days after the championship game on January 18, 1894, Carroll Hall lost to Sorin 18 to 0 to end the interhall season. This also gives Sorin fair claim to the championship, although there was never any report of them claiming it. Sorin's outright championship in 1890 and the Carrollites quasi-championship in 1893 are the only two years during the 19th century that an interhall championship was claimed although an interhall champion can be named for each of the seasons based on limited recorded of games.

Other Eras

 * Original Page (1887-1952)


 * The Mythical Period (1890-1902)
 * Formative Years (1903-1921)
 * Rockne Romana (1922-1935)
 * The Leather Age Collapse (1936-1939)
 * The War (1940-1945)
 * The Napolitonic Years (1946-1961)
 * Mod Interhall (1962-1971)
 * Co-ed Era (1972-)

Other teams

 * Preliminary football (1869-1891)
 * Varsity Reserves (1887-1980s)
 * Minim Department (1887-1929)
 * Junior Department (1888-1921)
 * Varsity Frosh (1913-1971)
 * Old-Timers game (1929-1967)
 * Blue-Gold game (1968-present)

Modern Male championships
The difference between modern and pre-modern champions was the establishment of divisions and the interhall championship game in 1922. Prior to this, post-season games were rarely ever scheduled to determine a champion, and even these games were no more than de-facto and ad-hoc. Examples of such archaic championships were the first "University football championship" in 1890 between Sorin and Brownson halls and the Corby-Sorin contest in 1904.

Female championships
†-Represents teams that were not crowned interhall champions by any hsitorical or contemporary sources, but could claim the championship based on their known interhall record for that season.