The early years of college sports are weird. As I wrote about the other day, sometimes people would coach multiple different sports at a school. Or sometimes a player at a completely different school just comes and coaches you for a couple games.
The first ever college football played in the state of North Carolina was between UNC and Wake Forest on October 18, 1888. Up until then, baseball and track were the only sports sponsored by the athletic association. The financial situation of an athletic department back then was so shaky that by the time it was decided to schedule a football season, it had to be delayed so they could, quite literally, save to buy a football.