1886 Yale Bulldogs football team

1886 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Helms, NCF)
Co-national champion (Davis)
IFA co-champion
Conference Intercollegiate Football Association
1886 record 9–0–1 ( )
Head coach No coach
Captain Robert Corwin
Home stadium Yale Field
1886 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale      9 0 1
Princeton      7 0 1
Michigan      2 0 0
Harvard      12 2 0
California      6 2 1
Massachusetts      2 1 0
Navy      3 3 0
Dartmouth      2 2 0
Rutgers      1 3 0
Northwestern      0 1 0
Vermont      0 1 0
Minnesota      0 2 0

The 1886 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1886 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0–1 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and National Championship Foundation and a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

On Thanksgiving Day in Princeton, New Jersey, undefeated teams from Yale and Princeton met. The game started late due to the absence of a referee, and heavy rain caused the game to be called on account of darkness with Yale leading 4–0 in the second half. Under the rules of the time, the game was declared "no contest" by the substitute referee, and the final score was declared to be 0–0. After a special meeting of the Intercollegiate Football Association held to review the game, the Association issued a two-part resolution: that (1) Yale should have been acknowledged the winner, but that (2) under their existing rules, the Association did not have the authority to award the game to them.[3]

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
October 6 Wesleyan Yale FieldNew Haven, CT W 75–0  
October 9 at Wesleyan Middletown, CT W 62–0  
October 16 MIT Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 96–0  
October 20 at Stevens Hoboken, NJ W 54–0  
October 23 at Williams Williamstown, MA W 76–0  
October 30 Wesleyan Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 136–0  
November 2 at Crescent Athletic Club New York, NY W 84–0  
November 13 Penn Yale Field • New Haven, CT (rivalry) W 75–0  
November 20 at Harvard Jarvis Field • Cambridge, MA (rivalry) W 29–4  
November 25 at Princeton Princeton, NJ (rivalry) T 0–0  

Source: SR/College Football[2]

References

  1. 1886 Yale University football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on January 16, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "1886 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  3. "No Football Champions.; But Princeton Challenges Yale To Another Game On Saturday". The New York Times. November 28, 1886.
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