1883 Yale Bulldogs football team

1883 Yale Bulldogs football
Consensus national champion
Conference Independent
1883 record 9–0
Head coach No coach
Captain Ray Tompkins
Home stadium Hamilton Park
1883 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale   –    9 –0 –0
Gallaudet   –    2 –0 –0
Carleton   –    1 –0 –0
Johns Hopkins   –    1 –0 –0
Harvard   –    8 –2 –0
Princeton   –    7 –1 –0
Penn   –    6 –2 –1
Stevens Tech   –    6 –4 –1
Massachusetts   –    1 –1 –0
Minnesota   –    1 –1 –0
Williams   –    1 –1 –0
Fordham   –    4 –5 –0
Wesleyan   –    3 –5 –0
Michigan   –    2 –3 –0
Lafayette   –    2 –4 –0
Columbia   –    1 –3 –0
Rutgers   –    1 –6 –0
Amherst   –    0 –1 –0
Dartmouth   –    0 –1 –0
Hamline   –    0 –1 –0
Lewisburg   –    0 –1 –0
Navy   –    0 –1 –0
CCNY   –    0 –2 –0
Georgetown   –    0 –2 –0

The 1883 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1883 college football season. The team compiled a 9–0 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents, 540 to 2.[1] The team was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation, Billingsley Report, National Championship Foundation and Parke H. Davis.[2]

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result Attendance
September 26 Wesleyan Hamilton Park • New Haven, CT W 58–0    
September 29 at Wesleyan Middletown, CT W 90–0    
October 6 Stevens Hamilton Park • New Haven, CT W 59–0[3]    
November 6 vs. Rutgers Washington Park • Brooklyn, NY W 92–0[4]   nearly 1,000
November 14 Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute Brooklyn, NY W 49–0    
November 17 vs. Columbia Polo Grounds • New York, NY W 93–0[5]   400–500
November 21 Michigan Hamilton Park • New Haven, CT W 64–0   400
November 24 vs. Princeton Polo Grounds • New York, NY (rivalry) W 6–0[6]   5,000–6,000
November 29 vs. Harvard Polo Grounds • New York, NY (rivalry) W 23–2[7]   nearly 10,000

Source: SR/College Football [1]

Roster

References

  1. 1 2 "1883 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Yale vs. Stevens Institute". The Harvard Crimson. October 12, 1883.
  4. ↑ "Yale Easily Defeats Rutgers". New York Tribune. November 7, 1883. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Two Games of Football". The Sun. November 18, 1883. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ "Yale Beats Princeton". The Sun. November 25, 1883. p. 7 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "Yale Again Victorious". New York Tribune. November 30, 1883. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
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