1887 Yale Bulldogs football team

1887 Yale Bulldogs football
Consensus national champion
IFA champion
Conference Intercollegiate Football Association
1887 record 9–0 ( )
Head coach No coach
Captain Harry Beecher
Home stadium Yale Field
1887 college football records
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
Yale   –    9 –0 –0
Michigan   –    5 –0 –0
California   –    4 –0 –0
Minnesota   –    2 –0 –0
Harvard   –    10 –1 –0
Princeton   –    7 –2 –0
Navy   –    3 –1 –0
Virginia   –    0 –0 –1
Rutgers   –    3 –6 –0
Massachusetts   –    2 –3 –0
Indiana   –    0 –1 –0
Purdue   –    0 –1 –0
Cornell   –    0 –2 –0
Notre Dame   –    0 –3 –0

The 1887 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1887 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

Schedule

Date Opponent Site Result
October 5 Wesleyan Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 38–0  
October 15 at Wesleyan Middletown, CT W 106–0  
October 22 at Williams Williamstown, MA W 74–0  
October 29 at Penn Philadelphia, PA (rivalry) W 50–0  
November 6 Rutgers Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 74–0  
November 8 at Crescent Athletic Club New York, NY W 68–0  
November 12 Wesleyan Yale Field • New Haven, CT W 76–4  
November 19 vs. Princeton New York, NY (rivalry) W 12–0  
November 24 vs. Harvard Polo Grounds • New York, NY (rivalry) W 17–8  

Source: SR/College Football [2]

References

  1. ↑ National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
  2. 1 2 "1887 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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