1889 Yale Bulldogs football team
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Conference | Independent |
1889 record | 15–1 |
Head coach | Walter Camp (2nd season) |
Captain | Charles O. Gill |
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Princeton | – | 10 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yale | – | 15 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harvard | – | 9 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Virginia | – | 4 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
USC | – | 2 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notre Dame | – | 1 | – | 0 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
North Carolina | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Washington | – | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Michigan | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Columbia | – | 2 | – | 7 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 1889 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1889 college football season. In their second season under head coach Walter Camp, Yale compiled a 15–1 record, held opponents scoreless in 12 games, and outscored all opponents by a total of 664 to 31. Its only loss was in the final game of the season against rival Princeton by a 10–0 score.[1]
Three Yale players (end Amos Alonzo Stagg, guard Pudge Heffelfinger and tackle Charles O. Gill) were named to the 1889 College Football All-America Team, the first college football All-America team as selected by Caspar Whitney.[2] Stagg and Heffelfinger have also been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
Schedule
Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
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September 28 | Wesleyan | W 38–0 | |||
October 9 | at Wesleyan | Middletown, CT | W 63–5 | ||
October 12 | Williams |
| W 36–0 | [3] | |
October 16 | Cornell |
| W 56–6 | [4] | |
October 19 | Amherst |
| W 42–0 | [5] | |
October 24 | at Trinity | Hartford, CT | W 64–0 | [6] | |
October 26 | at Columbia |
| W 62–0 | [7] | |
October 30 | at Penn (rivalry) | Philadelphia | W 22–10 | [8] | |
October 31 | vs. Stevens |
| W 30–0 | [9] | |
November 5 | at Crescent Athletic Club | Brooklyn | W 18–0 | [10] | |
November 9 | at Cornell | Ithaca, NY | W 70–0 | 2,000 | [11] |
November 12 | at Amherst | Amherst, MA | W 32–0 | [12] | |
November 13 | at Williams | W 70–0 | |||
November 16 | vs. Wesleyan | Springfield, MA | W 52–0 | [13] | |
November 23 | vs. Harvard |
| W 6–0 | 15,000 | [14] |
November 28 | vs. Princeton |
| L 0–10 | >25,000 | [15] |
References
- ↑ "1889 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved January 6, 2018.
- ↑ The All-America Team for 1889 selected by Casper Whitney is identified in the NCAA guide to football award winners Archived 2009-07-14 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "No Science In The Play: Yale Defeats Williams in a Very Rough Game of Football". The New York Times. October 13, 1889. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Yale Wins at Football: Cornell Defeated by a Score of 56 to 6". The New York Times. October 17, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Yale Defeats Amherst". The New York Times. October 28, 1889. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Yale 64, Trinity 0: The Blues Easily Win at Hartford -- Casualties and Score". Burlington Daily Free Press. October 25, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Yale Beats Columbia, and Princeton Wins, Too". The New York Times. October 27, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Yale Takes The Game". The Times (Philadelphia). October 31, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Yale's New Football Men: Corbin, Terry and Beecher Play Against Stevens". The New York Times. November 1, 1889. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Yale Muscle Wins Again". The Sun (New York). November 6, 1889. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Cornell Defeated By Yale". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. November 10, 1889. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Yale Plays The Return Game With Amherst And Wins". The New York Times. November 13, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Yale, 52; Wesleyan, 0". The New York Times. November 17, 1889. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Yale Wins From Harvard". The New York Times. November 24, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Princeton Wins Gloriously". The Sun (New York). November 29, 1889. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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