In its first year of intercollegiate football, the team defeated North Carolina by a 6–4 score in a game played on October 18, 1888, at the State Fair Grounds in Raleigh, North Carolina.
[1] After the game, The News & Observer wrote:"Decidedly one of the most interesting features of the whole fair was the game of foot ball yesterday between Wake Forest and Chapel Hill, resulting in a victory for Wake Forest.
The game was exciting and was played by excellent teams on both sides.
The players were uniformed and were a skilled and active set of boys."[2]W.
[3] The game was also the first in the history of the North Carolina Tar Heels football program.