The 1888 USC Methodists football team was an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wit ...

team that represented the

University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8. ...

during the

1888 college football season The 1888 college football season had no clear-cut champion, with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Yale as having been selected national champions. October 18 saw the first intercollegiate game in the state of North ...

. The team competed as an independent under coaches Henry H. Goddard and

Frank H. Suffel Frank Hammond Suffel (July 5, 1866 – March 15, 1937) was a Canadian-born lawyer, college Latin instructor, and college football coach. Born in Vienna, Ontario, he worked as a Latin instructor at the University of Southern California (USC) ...

, compiling a 2–0 record.

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